The Melody Of Leaves Astir

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This powerful piece is ideal for your music department's combined piece - including your choir, band, and orchestra students. The choral and instrumental parts are accessible enough to include middle school ensembles. And, with the optional Treble Choir part, even your youngest singers can join in! It can also be performed by choir alone with piano accompaniment.



Concert Recording Available Below


  • Voicing: SATB ensemble (optional Unison ensemble)
  • Instrumentation: Piano Accompaniment
  • Text Author: Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)
  • Duration: 5:20 minutes
  • Publisher: Mysterium Music



Concert Band and String Orchestra parts are available here.

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TEXT
"The Melody of Leaves Astir"
Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)
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Let other bards their harps attune
To sing of gold and courts and kings;
But leave to me the hush of June,
The music that the forest sings.
Let other bards from fields of blood
Send up their hymns to mighty Mars ;
But leave to me the quiet wood,
The tender moonlight and the stars.
I’ll hang my harp upon a tree,
Where ev’ry passing breeze may play,
And catch the leafy minstrelsy,
The music of the shaded way.
Yea, I will teach this harp of mine
To sing the song the forest sings,
To mingle with the sob of pine
The silver aspen’s whisperings.
For I would find that sweetest chord
That makes the forest harmony, Would wake at will the music poured
To ev’ry zephyr by the tree.
To know thee more my spirit longs,
O melody of leaves astir ;
O forest, let me sing thy songs,
O, make me thy interpreter.