Hail, hail to Winter bold

Percy Eastman Fletcher paints a vivid picture of Winter as a powerful, commanding monarch in this SA part-song. The text personifies the season, depicting its reign over land and sea, and its association with the biting winds and the chill of frost and snow. Fletcher's setting captures the boldness of the imagery, with the two-part female voices offering a clear and direct interpretation of the text's descriptive power. It is a secular song, part of the tradition of English part-songs that often celebrated nature and the changing seasons with evocative language and straightforward musical settings.