Charles Ives (1874–1954) composed at least a dozen partsongs, mostly while he was a student at Yale College (1894–98). His The Year’s at the Spring (1889 or 1892) appears to be the earliest surviving in the genre, but for SATB, not for the more common TTBB. The text is from “Pippa Passes,” no. 1 of Bells and Pomegranates (1836) by Robert Browning.
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duration circa 1 minute
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SATB