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The rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.
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Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Rain", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Grace Wilbur Conant (1858 - 1948), "Rain", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Children's Year [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethel Crowningshield , "Rain", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Rain", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Rain", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Stevensonia [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Rain", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carlisle Floyd (b. 1926), "Rain", published 1967 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Two Stevenson songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Hugh Gartlan (1882 - 1963), "Rain", published 1934 [ chorus a cappella ], in New Universal School Music Series: Introduction to Part Singing [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882 - 1975), "Rain", published 1933 [ unison chorus unaccompanied ], in the collection New Universal School Music Series: Unison Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antonio Giacometti (b. 1957), "Rain", 2005 [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Stevenson Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Masséus (1913 - 1999), "Rain", op. 47a no. 2 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Rain", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Floy Adele Rossman , "Raining", published 1928 [ voice and piano ], in the collection Pre-School Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "Rain", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "Rain", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, adapted by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947) [an adaptation] ; composed by Gary Bachlund.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Anyi Sharma) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Pioggia", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 24
La pioggia piove tutto intorno, cade sui campi e sugli alberi, cade sugli ombrelli qui e sulle navi nel mare.
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- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Paolo Montanari, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Rain", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 20