{"id":87,"date":"2016-03-20T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:00:55","slug":"name-that-tune-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/2016\/03\/20\/name-that-tune-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"NAME THAT TUNE: PART TWO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 March 2016<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a>
Where are the Visions from National Airs Number 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In our previous blog we mentioned that a total of 72 songs were published across the 6 Numbers of the National Airs.\u00a0 The origin of all but two of the airs used is identified i.e. Slumber, Oh! Slumber<\/i> and Where are the visions<\/i>, both from Number 5.\u00a0 Our previous blog was about Slumber, Oh! Slumber<\/i>, and today\u2019s blog is about Where are the visions<\/i>.\u00a0 Where are the visions<\/i> is set in the key of F major and in 3\/8 time.\u00a0 Following a 16 bar piano introduction the singer begins in bar 17.\u00a0 Each of the four verses is divided by a piano interlude.\u00a0 The piano accompaniments for all songs in Number 5 were composed by Henry R. Bishop.\u00a0 Many of the National Airs include an option for more than one voice and are listed in the index in Power\u2019s early editions as \u2018Harmonised Airs\u2019.\u00a0 As can be seen in the photograph Where are the visions<\/i> may be performed by one singer or as a duet; the duet is set in thirds.\u00a0 The words of the song are transcribed below:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are the visions that round me once hover\u2019d,<\/p>\n

Forms that had grace in their shadows alone,<\/p>\n

Looks, fresh as light from a star just discover\u2019d,<\/p>\n

And voices that music might take for her own?”<\/p>\n

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Time, while I spoke, with his wings resting o\u2019er me,<\/p>\n

Heard me say \u201cwhere are those visions, oh, where?\u201d<\/p>\n

And, pointing his wand to the sunset before me,<\/p>\n

Said, with a voice like the hollow wind, \u201cThere!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fondly I look\u2019d, when the wizard had spoken,<\/p>\n

On to the dimshining [sic] ruins of Day,<\/p>\n

And there, in that light, like a talisman broken,<\/p>\n

Saw the bright fragments of Hope melt away.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh! Lend me thy wings, Time\u201d I hastily utter\u2019d,<\/p>\n

Impatient to catch the last glimmer that shone;<\/p>\n

But scarcely again had the dark wizard flutter\u2019d<\/p>\n

His wing o\u2019er my head, ere the light all was gone.<\/p>\n

If you know the origin of the air for Where are the vision<\/i> please let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

Image Courtesy of Special Collections, The McClay Library, Queen\u2019s University Belfast<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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