Frostiana : A Girl's Garden (Voix de Femmes)

A Girl’s Garden

A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father 5 To give her a garden plot To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, “Why not?” In casting about for a corner He thought of an idle bit 10 Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood, And he said, “Just it.” And he said, “That ought to make you An ideal one-girl farm, And give you a chance to put some strength 15 On your slim-jim arm.” It was not enough of a garden, Her father said, to plough; So she had to work it all by hand, But she don’t mind now. 20 She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow Along a stretch of road; But she always ran away and left Her not-nice load. And hid from anyone passing. 25 And then she begged the seed. She says she thinks she planted one Of all things but weed. A hill each of potatoes, Radishes, lettuce, peas, 30 Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn, And even fruit trees And yes, she has long mistrusted That a cider apple tree In bearing there to-day is hers, 35 Or at least may be. Her crop was a miscellany When all was said and done, A little bit of everything, A great deal of none. 40 Now when she sees in the village How village things go, Just when it seems to come in right, She says, “I know! It’s as when I was a farmer——” 45 Oh, never by way of advice! And she never sins by telling the tale To the same person twice. Randall Thompson transforme les 12 quatrains en 5+1 couplets quasiment identiques, chantés à l'unisson par les filles pendant que l'instrumentation varie. L'harmonie vocale apparait seulement sur le dernier couplet mesure 65 à partir du "I know" - chanté "sospirando"- jusqu'au 12 dernières mesures (attention aux changements de tempo) Le morceau

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