All Around Us, Fair with Flowers in Tonic Solfa
All Around Us, Fair with Flowers in Tonic Solfa to STUTTGART, doh is G: the solfa with the words, staff notation, 5 verses and a piano.
The solfa with the words
| s,All-s,a--dround-dus,- | rfair-rwith-mflo--dwers,- |
| sFields-sof-lbeau--fty- | rsleep--sing-mlie;--- |
| mAll-ma--rround-mus- | dclar--rion-dvoi--t,ces- |
| dCall-l,to-s,du--dty- | dstern-t,and-dhigh.--- |
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- Key
- G major
- Doh
- G
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- s, (D)
- Range
- s, to l (D to E, a ninth)
- Tune
- STUTTGART
- Words
- Anonymous
- Music
- Psalmodia Sacra, Gotha, Christian F. Witt, Johann G. C. Storl, Henry John Gauntlett
Tune STUTTGART by Christian F. Witt (died 1716), Johann G. C. Storl (died 1719) and Henry John Gauntlett (1805–1876); words by Anonymous. Sources and licences.
The solfa line by line
The same solfa as plain text, a line of the hymn at a time, with the words of the first verse under it — easy to copy into your own notes or a message to the choir. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.
Doh is G · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in G major, with the first verse under the notes.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
The words
All around us, fair with flowers,
Fields of beauty sleeping lie;
All around us clarion voices
Call to duty stern and high.
Thankfully we will rejoice in
All the beauty God has given;
But beware it does not win us
From the work ordained of Heaven.
Following every voice of mercy
With a trusting, loving heart;
Let us in life's earnest labor
Still be sure to do our part.
Now, to-day, and not to-morrow,
Let us work with all our might,
Lest the wretched faint and perish
In the coming stormy night.
Now, to-day, and not to-morrow, —
Lest, before to-morrow's sun,
We too, mournfully departing,
Shall have left our work undone.
How to sing it from the solfa
- Find doh first. Play or hum G and sing d r m f s up from it, so the whole choir has the key in their ears before you start.
- Pitch the first note. The tune starts on s, (D).
- Count the time. 4/4 means four crotchet beats in each bar. In the grid every cell is half a crotchet: a dash (–) holds the note before it, and _ is a rest.
- Know the notes. The tune uses d r m f s l t. A comma after a note (s,) is the octave below; an apostrophe (d') is the octave above.
New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.
About the hymn
These words were printed without an author's name in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, compiled by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson (Boston, 1848), as hymn 306, “Life's Work”.
The book printed the words without tunes, marked Eights and Sevens (8.7.8.7), to be sung to any tune of that metre. This page sets them to STUTTGART; any other Eights and Sevens tune fits them as well.
- Words: Anonymous
- Melody (1715): Psalmodia Sacra, Gotha
- Music, attributed: Christian F. Witt (died 1716)
- Music, attributed: Johann G. C. Storl (died 1719)
- Arranged (1861): Henry John Gauntlett (1805–1876)
Tune STUTTGART by Christian F. Witt (died 1716), Johann G. C. Storl (died 1719) and Henry John Gauntlett (1805–1876); words by Anonymous.
Sung to the same tune: From the Father’s Throne Descending, Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices, Onward, Christian, Though the Region, Pillows, Wet with Tears of Anguish.
Questions about All Around Us, Fair with Flowers
What is the doh of All Around Us, Fair with Flowers?
In this version, in G major, doh is G. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.
What note does All Around Us, Fair with Flowers start on?
It starts on s, (D in G major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to s,.
Is All Around Us, Fair with Flowers in the public domain?
Yes. Christian F. Witt died in 1716, Johann G. C. Storl died in 1719, Henry John Gauntlett died in 1876; the words were in print by 1848 and the music in 1715. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in the UK, the EU, the United States and Nigeria. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.