Miriam Hyde: Spring

Composer: Miriam Hyde

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Miriam Hyde: Spring

Date

1939

Authors

Composer: Miriam Hyde

Publisher

Canberra School of Music, Australian National University

Abstract

Spring, much more European than Australian, was written a few years after I had experienced several exuberant springs in England. It is associated with Tennyson's poem, Early Spring, which refers to a 'Jacob's Ladder' (see Genesis chapter 28, verses 10-12), and angels passing up and down, flinging 'stars through the woods' - presumably the thousands of daffodils.