Title: When I bring to you colour’d toys from Gitanjali
Music: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)
Text: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Free at Art Song Central (PDF files):
- When I bring to you colour’d toys
- Key: F♯ Major
- Range: C♯4 – F♯5
Elsewhere on the Internet:
Mp3:
MIDI:
When I bring to you colour’d toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flow’rs are painted in tints–when I give colour’d toys to you, my child.
When I sing to make you dance, I truly know why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth–when I sing to make you dance.
When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands, I know why there is honey in the cup of the flower and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice–when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands.
- Recmusic.org has the texts for this song cycle.
