Date:
1965
Duration:
12 minutes
Publisher:
Instrumentation:
- Voice & Ensemble
Forces:
Medium Voice; Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Horn, Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello
Standford's Gitanjali (Song Offerings) is a setting of four songs from Rabindranath Tagore's own translations of his Bengali verses for medium voice and seven instruments.
1 Thou hast made me endless such is thy pleasure...
2 I am here to sing thee songs, in this hall of thine...
3 The day is no more. The shadow is upon the earth...
4 Let all the strains of joy mingle with my last song! the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excell of the grass...