1921
Remembrance (A Sound of a Distant Horn)
Composed by
Charles Ives
Charles Ives Text by
Charles Ives
Charles Ives "Remembrance" is the twelfth song in Ives's song collection 114 Songs. The song was written for his father, who died unexpectedly in 1894 while Ives was an undergraduate at Yale.
The song begins with the epigram by Wordsworth:
"The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more."
Text
Remembrance
by Charles Ives
A sound of a distant horn,
O’er shadowed lake is borne,
my father’s song.
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