ארבע תקופות השנה | Arba' tkufot ha-shana | Four Seasons (1912)

Artist: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938)

Hebrew translation (PDF)

According to Idelsohn, this song was published in Ha-Zamir but, in fact, it is not included in that work.

“Arba' tkufot ha-shana” was written by the poet and translator Pesah Kaplan (1870-1943) and published in the Hebrew children's magazine Olam Katan [A Small World] (April 1903, vol. 28, p. 1).

The text depicts nature during the four seasons.

The melody, whose source is unidentified, is in a major key with a modal flavor.

Included in

• Sefer ha-Shirim (Book of Songs)

Scores

Original (PDF) Modernized (PDF)

Transliteration

Transliteration (PDF)