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Sailing Westward
"Sailing Westward" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (collectively known as the ''"Pageant of Empire"'') written to be performed in the ''Pageant of Empire'' at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley Park, on 21 July 1924. The song descriptively commemorates the adventurous English sea-captains who sailed to ''"... chase the setting sun ... westward, thro' the thund'ring gales"''. Elgar used the same music for four other songs in the set: ''" The Islands"'', ''"Gloriana"'' ( Queen Elizabeth I), ''"The Cape of Good Hope"'' (for South Africa) and ''"Indian Dawn"''. This song was arranged by the composer as an accompanied part-song A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-Liturgy, liturgical sacred text, written or arranged for several voice type, vocal parts. Part songs are commonly sung by an SATB choir, but ... for SATB. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright. Early years Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek. The Welsh coast and mountains were an inspiration to Noyes. Early career In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems, ''The Loom of Years'' (1902) on a crucial day of his finals in 1903. ''The Barrel-Organ'' and ''The Highwayman'' Noyes published five more volumes of poetry from 1903 to 1913, among them ''The Flower of Old Japan'' (1903) and ''Poems'' (1904). ''Poems'' included "The Barrel-Organ". "The Highwayman" was first published in the August 1906 issue of ''Blackwood's Magazine'', and included the fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
