"On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913. It is the first of ""Two Pieces for Small Orchestra"", the second piece being ""Summer Night on the River"", although these have for many years existed separately on recordings and in the concert hall. The piece opens with a slow three-bar sequence; its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided strings. The second theme is scored for first violins,"
"(""On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring""), Handel (""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale""), Respighi (""The Birds""), Rimsky-Korsakov (""Snow Maidens""), Dvořák, Saint-Saens (""Carnival of the Animals""), Vivaldi (""Concerto in A"", The Cuckoo), and Gustav Mahler (""First Symphony"", where the cuckoo sings perfect fourths instead of the usual major third or minor third). Less commonly imitated are the great tit (Anton Bruckner's ""Fourth Symphony""), the goldfinch (Vivaldi), linnet (Couperin, Haydn and Rachmaninov), robin (Peter Warlock), swallow (Dvorak and Tchaikovsky), wagtail (Benjamin Britten), and magpie (in a Mussorgsky song). Dvorak celebrated many other kinds of bird, including the stock dove, skylark, and house"
"next few years by ""In a Summer Garden"" (1908), ""Life's Dance"" (1911), ""Summer Night on the River"" (1911) and ""On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"" (1912). The critic R.W.S. Mendl described this sequence as ""exquisite nature studies"", with a unity and shape lacking in the earlier formal tone poems. These works became part of the standard English concert repertory, and helped to establish the character of Delius's music in the English concert-goer's mind, although according to Ernest Newman, the concentration on these works to the neglect of his wider output may have done Delius as much harm as good."
"Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"", and ""In a Summer Garden"". The composer wrote, ""All three... are excellent and I shall be glad to have them sold as authorised by me."" Toye also recorded ""The Walk to the Paradise Garden"" in 1929. Toye's overture to ""Ruddigore"" has been recorded numerous times, conducted by Harry Norris, Isidore Godfrey, and Sir Malcolm Sargent (who each recorded the complete opera) and Sir Charles Mackerras, among others. Norris, Godfrey and Sargent all observe some or all of Toye's cuts and other minor alterations in the score. Toye's only recording conducting a Gilbert and Sullivan"
"<poem> Summer has arrived, Sing loudly, cuckoo! The seed is growing And the meadow is blooming, And the wood is coming into leaf now, Sing, cuckoo! </poem> In England, William Shakespeare alludes to the common cuckoo's association with spring, and with cuckoldry, in the courtly springtime song in his play ""Love's Labours Lost"": In Europe, hearing the call of the common cuckoo is regarded as the first harbinger of spring. Many local legends and traditions are based on this. In Scotland, Gowk Stones (cuckoo stones) sometimes associated with the arrival of the first cuckoo of spring. ""Gowk"" is an old"
"thou Winter Wind."" [Three-part song.] Words by Shakespeare, 1891 ""Bonnie wee Thing."" Song, words by R. Burns, 1895 ""Child's Talk in April."" [Duet for female voices.] Words by C. Rossetti, 1908 ""Christmas Carol."" Words by J. Milton, 1893 ""Constant Love."" Song, etc., 1890 ""Cottage Cradle Song."" [Two-part song.] Words by M. Byron, 1908 ""Cradle Song and Scherzo à la Mazurka for violin and piano."" Op. 12, 1893 ""The Cuckoo."" [Duet for female voices.] Words by M. C. Gillington, 1905 ""The Daisy."" Two-Part Song for female voices, with Pianoforte accompaniment, the words by Wordsworth, 1900 ""Dead Hope."" [Two-part song.] Words by"
"a better place to live in, and of whom surely is composed, in a literal sense, 'the choir invisible/Whose music is the gladness of the world'"". The first recordings of Delius's works, in 1927, were conducted by Beecham for the Columbia label: the ""Walk to the Paradise Garden"" interlude from ""A Village Romeo and Juliet"", and ""On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"", performed by the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society. These began a long series of Delius recordings under Beecham that continued for the rest of the conductor's life. He was not alone, however; Geoffrey Toye in 1929–30"
"Cuckoo Song (instrumental) ""Cuckoo Song"" is a musical piece written by Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621). In 1977 British musician Mike Oldfield released an arrangement of the piece as a single. Mike Oldfield released a version of ""Cuckoo Song"" in 1977 as a non-album single on Virgin Records. The B side, a musical precursor of Incantations and which could almost be a part of it, is an original composition by Oldfield. The single (in a plain white sleeve) was included as a free bonus when the double LP ""Incantations"" was released in 1978. It is one of the many non-album"
"The Cuckoo (song) ""The Cuckoo"" (Roud 413) is a traditional English folk song, also sung in the USA, Canada, Scotland and Ireland. It has been covered by many musicians in several different styles. An early notable recorded version was performed by Appalachian folk musician Clarence Ashley with a unique banjo tuning. The song is known by many names, including ""The Coo-Coo"", ""The Coo-Coo Bird"", ""The Cuckoo Bird"", ""The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird"", ""The Evening Meeting"", ""The Unconstant Lover, Bunclody"" and ""Going to Georgia"". Lyrics usually include the line (or a slight variation): ""The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she"
"five verses starting with a ""Come all ye"" warning about courting sailors and with the cuckoo appearing in the second verse. The Roud Folk Song Index lists about 149 collected or recorded versions performed by traditional singers - 49 from England, 4 from Scotland, 2 from Ireland, 4 from Canada and 88 from the USA. At least one collected version was published in the ""Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains"" (1917). The first recording was made by Kelly Harrell for Victor in 1926. Notable artists who have recorded ""The Cuckoo"" include: The Cuckoo (song) ""The Cuckoo"" (Roud 413) is a"
"Im Frühling Im Frühling (""In Spring"") (Op. 101, no. 1, D. 882) in G major is a Lied by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Schubert composed the song in 1826 to a poem by Ernst Schulze (1789–1817) as part of ten poems by Schulze he set to music; they were part of Schulze's ""Poetic Diary"" which he wrote from 29 June 1813 until 17 February 1817. Schulze's original title was ""On the 31st of March 1815"". The poems were published by Brockhaus in 1822, the most probable source for Schubert. Some singers who have made recordings of this work are Dietrich"
"outside the summer season, later accepted by Pliny the Elder in his ""Natural History"". Aristotle rejected the claim, observing in his ""History of Animals"" that cuckoos do not have the predators' talons or hooked bills. These Classical era accounts were known to the Early Modern English naturalist, William Turner. The 13th century medieval English round, ""Sumer Is Icumen In"", celebrates the cuckoo as a sign of spring, the beginning of summer, in the first stanza, and in the chorus: <poem> Svmer is icumen in Lhude sing cuccu Groweþ sed and bloweþ med and springþ þe wde nu Sing cuccu </poem>"
"in March 1901 in Nizhny Novgorod. It is believed that originally the text was part of a larger piece, called ""Spring Melodies"" (Весенние мелодии) and subtitled ""Fantasy"" (Фантазия). In this ""fantasy"", the author overhears a conversation of birds outside his window on a late-winter day: a crow, a raven, and a bullfinch representing the monarchist establishment; sparrows, ""lesser people""; and anti-establishment siskins (чижики). As the birds discussing the approach of the spring, it is one of the siskins who sings to his comrades ""the Song of the Stormy Petrel, which he had overheard somewhere"", which appears as the ""fantasy's"" finale."
"the Cuckoo"", were all based on Wordsworth's recalling both the sensory and emotional experience of his childhood. From ""To the Cuckoo"", he moved on to ""The Rainbow"", both written on 26 March 1802, and then on to ""Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"". As he moved from poem to poem, he began to question why, as a child, he once was able to see an immortal presence within nature but as an adult that was fading away except in the few moments he was able to meditate on experiences found in poems like ""To the Cuckoo"". While"
"Colin McAlpin Colin McAlpin (9 April 1870 – 13 May 1942) was an English composer of songs, operas and ballet music, an organist and a writer of critical essays on music. Colin McAlpin was born in 1870, at 15 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, England. He was the fourth child of a clothier John William McAlpin, and his German wife Marie Louise (née Gerdes). His elder siblings were Kenneth, Donal and Janet, and his younger brothers Alan and John. McAlpin published his first composition when he was only 15 and at Wellingborough School: a song called ""The Cuckoo"" published in the ""Midland"
"singles which Oldfield released in the 1970s. ""Cuckoo Song"" also features Les Penning. Cuckoo Song (instrumental) ""Cuckoo Song"" is a musical piece written by Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621). In 1977 British musician Mike Oldfield released an arrangement of the piece as a single. Mike Oldfield released a version of ""Cuckoo Song"" in 1977 as a non-album single on Virgin Records. The B side, a musical precursor of Incantations and which could almost be a part of it, is an original composition by Oldfield. The single (in a plain white sleeve) was included as a free bonus when the double"
"Cuckoo in Spring"" (1912), of which McVeagh comments, ""These exquisite idylls, for all their composer's German descent and French domicile, spell 'England' for most listeners."" In 1910, Beecham put on an opera season at the Royal Opera House in London. Having access to the Beecham family's considerable fortune, he ignored commercial considerations and programmed several works of limited box-office appeal, including ""A Village Romeo and Juliet"". The reviews were polite, but ""The Times"", having praised the orchestral aspects of the score, commented, ""Mr. Delius seems to have remarkably little sense of dramatic writing for the voice"". Other reviewers agreed that"
"Observer"", ""The Cuckoo"" is reportedly descended from an old folk ballad; it's an interior monologue where the singer ""relates his desires—to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection."" Described by critic Dave Marsh as ""the most widespread folk song in the English language"", ""Barbara Allen"" dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665. Similar but different versions of the ballad have been traced to English and Scottish folk traditions, and when ""Barbara Allen"" was brought to North America by early European settlers, no particular version"
"heare the cuckoo though he loud doth sing In poynting of plow harnesse, he labours till he sweat, While another in his forge at home may steale a private heat. From ""The Cuckowes Comendation: / Or, the Cuckolds Credit: Being a merry Maying Song in Praise of the Cuckow."", c.1625 ""The Cuckoo"" was published as a broadside by London and provincial printers, but does not seem to have been common. Broadsides are not precisely dated, but the earliest in the Bodleian Ballad Collection was published between 1780 and 1812 CE, the latest before 1845. The broadside texts are similar, of"
"the Cuckoo"" in his handwriting was known to exist during Bruce's lifetime, make it difficult to relieve him of the charge of plagiarism. John Veitch, in ""The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry"" (1887, vol. ii. pp. 89–91), points out that the stanza known to be Logan's addition to this ode is out of keeping with the rest of the poem, and is in the manner of Logan's established compositions, in which there is nothing to suggest the direct simplicity of the little poem on the cuckoo. Michael Bruce (poet) Michael Bruce (27 March 1746 – 15 July 1767) was"
"Spring and with it rebirth. The Shepherd on the Rock ""The Shepherd on the Rock"" (), D. 965, is a Lied for soprano, clarinet, and piano by Franz Schubert. It was composed in 1828 during the final months of his life. Of the seven verses, the first four and the last came from the poetry of Wilhelm Müller, while verses five and six were written by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. The Lied was written as a belated response to a request from the operatic soprano Pauline Anna Milder-Hauptmann, a friend of Schubert. She had requested a showpiece that would"
"Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, Elly Ameling, Elena Gerhardt, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vesselina Kasarova, Bernarda Fink, Marilyn Horne, Donna Brown, Lisa Della Casa, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Im Frühling Im Frühling (""In Spring"") (Op. 101, no. 1, D. 882) in G major is a Lied by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Schubert composed the song in 1826 to a poem by Ernst Schulze (1789–1817) as part of ten poems by Schulze he set to music; they were part of Schulze's ""Poetic Diary"" which he wrote from 29 June 1813 until 17 February 1817. Schulze's original title was ""On the 31st of March 1815""."
"Do I Hear a Waltz? Do I Hear a Waltz? is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was adapted from Laurents' 1952 play ""The Time of the Cuckoo"", which was the basis for the 1955 film ""Summertime"" starring Katharine Hepburn. Laurents originally conceived the production as a small chamber musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, and Mary Martin in the lead role of spinster Leona Samish. By the time the project began to jell, however, Hammerstein had died, and Stephen Sondheim was asked by"
"Cuckoo Clock (song) ""Cuckoo Clock"" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1962 album ""Surfin' Safari"". The song was written about the myna bird of Brian's father Murry Wilson. ""Cuckoo Clock"" relates the story of a teenage couple who is trying to spend time together. When things start to get romantic, however, they are interrupted by a cuckoo clock. In the final verse, the teenage boy dismantles the clock so they will not be bothered again. The song is in basic verse-chorus-bridge form. The"
"now preserved in Berlin (Staats Bibliothek – Preußische Kulturbesitz, Landsberg 215), and London (British Library, Add. 31501/I-II-III). One of his harpsichord pieces was transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi for his suite ""Gli uccelli."" Operas Oratorios Pasquini composed around sixty cantatas, mainly for one voice and continuo, but also for two or three voices, with or without instruments, and continuo. He celebrated the ubiquitous cuckoo in ""Toccata con lo Scherzo del Cucco"", written in florid style in 1702. It is perhaps the best keyboard cuckoo piece in existence for it imitates the cuckoo's notes, which seems to have been a"
"many awards for his compositions, including the 2004 State Prize from the Russian Federation. Dmitri Pavlov (composer) Dmitri Aleksandrovich Pavlov is a Russian composer. He was born in St Petersburg in 1959, and graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 1982 class Theory and Composition. Acclaimed for his work as a film composer and perhaps best known for his score for the film The Cuckoo (Кукушка in Russian) directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. Apart from music for film, Dmitri Pavlov has written for ballet, theatre and orchestra. He formed Pavlov Ballet in 1992, and also arranged for the 'Spirit of Mozart' concert"
"Spring Come not too Soon, 1947; The Christmas Story, 1948; The Bailey and the Bell, 1950; Horses, 1951; Einfaches Lied, 1955, unpublished; My Lady Comes, 1957; Three Hokku, 1958 Orchestral: ""Poema"", 1922; ""Stars"", 1927 (New York, 1963); ""Sand"", 1928 (New York, 1963); ""Castellana"", 2 pianos, orchestra, 1930; ""Dirge"", 1931; ""Axiom"", 1932; ""American Piece"", 1933; ""Coulennes"", 1936; ""Potomac River"", 1940; ""Paean"", 1941; ""Agreeable Overture"", 1948; ""Rock"", 1954 (New York, 1963); ""The Holy Baby of the Madonna"", 1958 Chamber music: Fugue, string quartet, 1922; Sonata, D, 1922 (New York, 1962); Ballade Fantasque, 1927; 3 Restaurant Pieces, 1927; Little Suite, string quartet, 1928;"
"Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór Sí Beag, Sí Mór, ""Small Fairy Mound, Big Fairy Mound"" from the word 'Sí' for 'fairy mound' in Irish Gaelic) is an Irish tune. It is usually attributed to blind harpist and singer Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) as his first composition, which he wrote to the tune of ""The Bonnie Cuckoo"". One author describes it as a ""beautiful old Irish air, usually played simply and leisurely, and occasionally played as a waltz"". Sí Mór (Sheemore) and Sí Beag (Sheebeg) are also two ancient pagan burial sites situated close to each other in south County Leitrim. In modern"
"on the (global) climate, forming a baseline for comparison with modern observations. For example, ""Cuckoo ""(Cuculus canorus)"" heard"" is recorded by White for 7—26 April, and by Markwick for 15 April and 3 May (presumably only once at the earlier date) and ""last heard"" by Markwick on 28 June. The table begins as follows: This is the longest section of the observations, with comments in each instance by Markwick. These are a few entries on sheep, rabbits, cats and squirrels, horse and hounds. The 'Vermes' cover glow-worms, earthworms, snails and slugs, and a ""snake's slough"", a cast skin. The observations"
"written for five musicians he felt particularly grateful to: the pianist Yvonne Loriod (his wife), the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the oboist Heinz Holliger, the flautist Catherine Cantin, and the conductor Myung-Whun Chung. The score was published by Editions Leduc in 2003. The first movement (""Entrée"") is bipartite and juxtaposes several musical ideas: a theme inspired by Susanna's aria ""Venite inginocchiatevi"" in Act 2 of Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro"", birdsong transcriptions (garden warbler as well as birds of New Zealand like the blue-wattled crow, the bush canary and the kakapo), a call and response of short melodic cells, a section"
"Gardner, the ballad ""The Cuckoo Clock"" (1916) chanted by Lucy Gates (soprano), and ""Cuckoo in the clock"" (words by Johnny Mercer and music by Walter Donaldson) recorded by the Glenn Miller orchestra and vocals by Marion Hutton, which became a popular 1939 song in the U. S. To say that the hit was also performed by Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup, Lena Horne, Sully Mason, Steve Jordan, Mildred Bailey and Martha Tilton. Years later, in 1962, The Beach Boys released their album ""Surfin' Safari"" including the theme ""Cuckoo Clock"". Another example in popular music is Fernando Olvera, the vocalist and leader"
"given from an open perch. During the breeding season the male typically gives this vocalisation with intervals of 1–1.5 seconds, in groups of 10–20 with a rest of a few seconds between groups. The female has a loud bubbling call. The song starts as a descending minor third early in the year in April, and the interval gets wider, through a major third to a fourth as the season progresses, and in June the cuckoo ""forgets its tune"" and may make other calls such as ascending intervals. Also the cuckoo seems to have a form of absolute pitch as it"
"piano, pieces republished in Leipzig in 1864 to a German translation. These included ""The quartet"", ""The eagle and the cuckoo"", ""The ant and the dragonfly"", ""The ass and the nightingale"", and ""Parnassus"". He was followed by Alexander Gretchaninov, who set ""4 Fables after Ivan Krylov"" for medium voice and piano (op.33), which included ""The musicians"", ""The peasant and the sheep"", ""The eagle and the bee"", and ""The bear among the bees"". This was followed in 1905 by ""2 Fables after Krylov"" for mixed a cappella choir (op.36), including ""The frog and the ox"" and ""The swan, the pike and the"