Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1373909 Composed by Charles Villiers Stanford. Arranged by Peet du Toit. A Cappella. 9 pages. Peet du Toit #958391. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.1373909). The Blue Bird is a partsong (Op. 119 No. 3) composed by Charles Villiers Stanford in 1910. It is set to the words of L'Oiseau Bleu, a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, which depicts a bluebird in flight over a lake. The Blue Bird is the third of Stanford's Eight Part Songs which are all settings of texts by Coleridge. It is one of Stanford's most renowned partsongs and has been recorded by ensembles including The Cambridge Singers, Oxford Camerata, and Tenebrae.The lake lay blue below the hill.O'er it, as I looked, there flewAcross the waters, cold and still,A bird whose wings were palest blue.When played delicately on brass instruments, it sounds really great too.The sky above was blue at last,The sky beneath me blue in blue.A moment, ere the bird had passed,It caught his image as he flew.
