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two winter songs and a spring carol

by elizabeth veldon

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the first two tracks take their titles from shakespeare's 97th sonnet:

how like a winter hath my absence been
from thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
what freezings have i felt, what dark days seen!
what old december's bareness everywhere!
and yet this time removed was summer's time;
the teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
yet this abundant issue seemed to me
but hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;
for summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
and, thou away, the very birds are mute:
or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
that leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.

the third track is based on 'tempus adest floridum' a 13th century spring carol who's tune was used for the famous 'good king wenceslas'

tempus adest floridum, surgunt namque flores
vernales in omnibus, imitantur mores
hoc quod frigus laeserat, reparant calores
cernimus hoc fieri, per multos labores.

spring has now unwrapped the flowers, day is fast reviving,
life in all her growing powers towards the light is striving:
gone the iron touch of cold, winter time and frost time,
seedlings, working through the mould, now make up for lost time.

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released December 29, 2013

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elizabeth veldon UK

i am a sound artist and sort-of academic researching themes of labour and hierarchies in art.

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