Art Song Central

Title: Ghosts

Music: Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972)

Text: Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853-1911)

Note: this song is very short, but was much praised by Lang’s contemporaries.

Free at Art Song Central:

• PDF: Ghosts
• Key: A♭ Major
• Range: F4 – F5

Elsewhere on the Internet:

• Source available in Project Gutenberg’s edition of Contemporary American Composers, along with a midi file.
• Also in Google Book’s editions of Contemporary American Composers, and Godey’s Magazine

Mp3:

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MIDI:

• Available here thanks to Project Gutenberg: Ghosts

Out in the misty moonlight, the first snow flakes I see,
As they frolic among the leafless boughs of the appletree.

Faintly they seem to whisper, as round the boughs they wing;
“We are the ghosts of the flowers who died in the early spring.”

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