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The Seeds of Love - by Paul Halley
Publication Details
No. V from the song cycle "Love Songs For Springtime'
 

 
  Catalogue Number -
LL-VG440 SATB

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SSAA choir and piano
with optional brass quintet

Level of Difficulty - Easy
Uses/Season - Festival, Concert

Perusal score pdf can be viewed while listening simultaneously to
audio track below.

Licensed by arrangement with Alfred Music for Warner Chappell Music Canada

 

Duration -
4:00 mins


Pages Music -
7 pages - 12 page booklet
Format -
SATB/piano choral octavo


Copyright Year - 1986



Perusal Score PDF
SATB version perusal - page 1 of 7
 
 
Description/Remarks
LL-VG440 SSAA "The Seeds of Love" by Paul Halley, is number V in the six-song cycle 'Love Songs For Springtime', composed 1986 for
the Ottawa Choral Society, Brian Law, director. The works in the song cycle are the settings of traditional English folk texts and each song describes a different perspective on love. This work reflects nostalgically on the course of a long-past love for a woman in contemplation of the various flowers in her garden. Text anon.

Commissioned 1986 by the Ottawa Choral Society, Brian Law, director.
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Recorded on

WONDROUS LOVE
JN104 CD

Wondrous Love


Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus
The Battell Brass - Directed by Paul Halley

 

 
 

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Texts 

The Seeds of Love

from 'Love Songs for Springtime'
Text: Traditional English
Music: Paul Halley

I sowed the seeds of love, and it was all in the spring,
In April, May, and June, likewise, when small birds they do sing;
My garden is well planted with flowers everywhere,
Yet for myself I could not choose the flower that I loved so dear.

My gardener he stood by, I asked him to choose for me,
He chose me the violet, the lily and pink but those I refused all three;
The violet I forsook, because it fades so soon,
The lily and pink I did o’er-look, and I vowed I’d stay till June.

In June there’s a red rosebud, and that’s the flower for me!
But oft have I plucked at the red rosebud till I gained the willow tree;
The willow tree will twist, and the willow tree will twine,
Oh! I wish I was in the dear youth’s arms that once had the heart of mine.

My gardener he stood by, he told me to take great care,
For in the middle of a red rosebud there grows a sharp thorn there,
I told him I’d take no care till I did feel the smart,
And often I plucked at the red rosebud till I pierced it to the heart.

I’ll make a posy of hyssop, for no other I can touch,
That all the world may plainly see I love one flower too much;
My garden is run wild! Where shall I plant anew -
For my bed, that once was covered with thyme, is all over-run with rue?