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Isaac Lovdahl
VocalEssence Music Press
Dances with the Daffodils
Playful, marvelous text setting, and an attractive musical style; it communicates wonderfully with both singers and listeners.
SATB, Oboe
Isaac Lovdahl’s music connects strongly with singers – its playful quality, its marvelous setting of the text, and the way that his musical style is attractive to sing; it communicates wonderfully with both singers and listeners. Lovdahl knows the importance of finding the right text and, as a high school choir director, he felt that Wordsworth’s poem would encourage young people to be uplifted and experience joy – elements that we all need in today’s world.
Text
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be joyful,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
— William Wordsworth
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