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*{{NewWork|2010-10-21}} '''CPDL #22478:''' [{{filepath:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.mid}} {{mid}}] [[Media:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.sib|Sibelius 5]] | *{{NewWork|2010-10-21}} '''CPDL #22478:''' [{{filepath:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.mid}} {{mid}}] [[Media:Legge, Music when Soft Voices die.sib|Sibelius 5]] | ||
{{Editor|Philip Legge|2010-10-21}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|5|124}}{{CopyCC|Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 2.5 Australia}} | {{Editor|Philip Legge|2010-10-21}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|5|124}}{{CopyCC|Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 2.5 Australia}} | ||
:'''Edition notes:''' | :'''Edition notes:''' May also be sung as SATB with ''ad lib''. piano accompaniment. | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
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{{Lyricist|Percy Bysshe Shelley}}<br> | {{Lyricist|Percy Bysshe Shelley}}<br> | ||
{{Voicing|8|SATB.SATB| | {{Voicing|8|SATB.SATB}} or {{Cat|SATB}}<br> | ||
{{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | {{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br> | '''Instruments:''' {{acap}} when SATB.SATB, {{PnoAcc}} when SATB<br> | ||
'''Published:''' 2010 (Joint Issue: Choral Public Domain Library, [[IMSLP:2 Partsongs, Op.7 (Legge, Philip)|Petrucci Music Library]]) | '''Published:''' 2010 (Joint Issue: Choral Public Domain Library, [[IMSLP:2 Partsongs, Op.7 (Legge, Philip)|Petrucci Music Library]]) | ||
'''Description:''' ''Music, when Soft Voices die'', mainly written in August 2009, is a grave, intricate setting of a short poem in two stanzas by the romantic poet Shelley (1792–1822). The work is written for two SATB choirs, the second of which (marked ''semplice'', or | '''Description:''' ''Music, when Soft Voices die'', mainly written in August 2009, is a grave, intricate setting of a short poem in two stanzas by the romantic poet Shelley (1792–1822). The work is written for two SATB choirs, the second of which (marked ''semplice'', or "simple") holds long, sustained chords in the fashion of a drone, against which the voices of the first choir slowly weave dissonant and highly chromatic lines, producing dense chord clusters. The music, always specified to be quiet and calm, briefly becomes more active at the end of the first stanza as the first choir, followed by the second, seize on the phrase “within the sense they quicken”. After a short pause the second stanza begins almost at the same starting point as the first, but the exploratory chromatic harmonies of the first verse are gradually nullified, whereupon a diatonic canon takes over the first choir, during which the second choir disappears entirely. The last phrase ambiguously presents successive chords of C major, B{{flat}} major and G minor against the second choirs’ anchoring D major before the last chord tilts the ensemble up to the minor instance of the initial key of E{{flat}}. | ||
'''External websites:''' | '''External websites:''' | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
{{Text|English}} | {{Text|English}} | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
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Love itself shall slumber on. | Love itself shall slumber on. | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Modern music]] | [[Category:Modern music]] | ||
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CPDL #22478:
Sibelius 5
- Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2010-10-21). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 124 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND 2.5 Australia
- Edition notes: May also be sung as SATB with ad lib. piano accompaniment.
General Information
Title: Music, when Soft Voices die
Composer: Philip Legge
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
or SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella when SATB.SATB, Piano when SATB
Published: 2010 (Joint Issue: Choral Public Domain Library, Petrucci Music Library)
Description: Music, when Soft Voices die, mainly written in August 2009, is a grave, intricate setting of a short poem in two stanzas by the romantic poet Shelley (1792–1822). The work is written for two SATB choirs, the second of which (marked semplice, or "simple") holds long, sustained chords in the fashion of a drone, against which the voices of the first choir slowly weave dissonant and highly chromatic lines, producing dense chord clusters. The music, always specified to be quiet and calm, briefly becomes more active at the end of the first stanza as the first choir, followed by the second, seize on the phrase “within the sense they quicken”. After a short pause the second stanza begins almost at the same starting point as the first, but the exploratory chromatic harmonies of the first verse are gradually nullified, whereupon a diatonic canon takes over the first choir, during which the second choir disappears entirely. The last phrase ambiguously presents successive chords of C major, B♭ major and G minor against the second choirs’ anchoring D major before the last chord tilts the ensemble up to the minor instance of the initial key of E♭.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.