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Enchantment
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Enchantment by Mabel Wheeler Daniels — Lyrics
Oh, Summer! Oh, the Summer!
Glowing, blowing
Flowers in the sun!
Oh, the warmth and sweetness, knowing
That the Winter’s done!
Spring is just behind us dying,
Autumn just before and flying,
Flying are the days,— no sighing
Can recall them one.
Oh, Summer! Oh, the Summer!
Swift the breaking
Of early dawn
Comes the sudden sun awaking
All it breathes upon.
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About Enchantment
Mabel Wheeler Daniels’ Enchantment captures the fleeting beauty of summer in this SATB setting of evocative English text. The choir will find themselves immersed in the season’s sensory delights, from the warmth of the sun and the bloom of flowers to the songs of birds. Daniels’ music reflects the text’s joyful anticipation of summer and the melancholic awareness of its inevitable passage, contrasting the vibrant present with the fading light of evening. This partsong is ideal for a choir seeking to programme a piece that expresses the transient, exquisite moments of the natural world, perhaps for a spring or summer concert programme.
