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Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), [1] BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas.
Norwegian-American composer F. Melius Christiansen composed a famous a capella choral arrangement of the hymn in 1925, titled "Wake, Awake" in English. Hugo Distler composed an organ partita based on the hymn in 1935 (Op. 8/2). The following example is the final movement of Bach's cantata, a four-part setting of the final stanza:
1930 – The Oaks Family – "Wake up, You Drowsy Sleeper", Victor Vi 23795 (BVE-62575). [24] Reissued on My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean: British Songs in the USA Nehi Records NEH3X1 (2015). 1934 – Callahan Brothers – "'Katie Dear (Silver Dagger)", Banner Ba 33103. Melotone Me 13071, Oriole Or 8353, Perfect 13017, Romeo Ro 5353.
The Sleeper Awakes (1910), dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years; Sleepers Awake (1946), poetry collection by Kenneth Patchen; Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work (1982), book by Barry Jones; Sleepers Awake (band), rock band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2005
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The theme of the song is so common in the UK, USA and Canada that the phrase "Night-visiting song" has been coined to cover all possible versions. This category is so huge that even minor variations are classed as being a different song. "Cold Haily Windy Night" has the same story but takes place in the rain. It is Roud 135.
The song's complete title is not featured in the lyrics, but there is the line "the sidewinder sleeps in a coil" as well as the later line "the sidewinder sleeps on its back". A sidewinder is a species of rattlesnake ( Crotalus cerastes ), and also an antique style of telephone, with a winding handle on the side. [ 8 ]
Song title Artist(s) Notes 1920 "The Lavender Song" ("Das Lila Lied") Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach [1] 1928 "Prove It On Me" Ma Rainey [2] 1929 "If Love Were All" Noël Coward: Written for the operetta Bitter Sweet. [3] 1932 "Mad About the Boy" Noël Coward [2] 1937 "Easy Living" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra [a] "My Funny ...