Now sleeps the crimson petal (Mark Chapman)

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• (Posted 2017-09-01)  CPDL #46141:       

Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2017-08-31).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

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General Information

Title: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Setting of Tennyson's poem, requested by Charis de Valence, as a favorite poem of her youth. The full 6 parts (the Bass momentary divides further in two places) are only heard together at climaxes, with interplay between them elsewhere, and the harmonies are lushly chromatic.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Now sleeps the crimson petal.