Crossing the Bar from Love Was My Lord and King! (SSAA Chamber Orchestra Score) by Gwyneth W. Walker SSAA - Sheet Music
By Gwyneth W. Walker
8096389
Crossing the Bar from Love Was My Lord and King! (SSAA Chamber Orchestra Score)
8096389
8096389
8096389
Details
Choir and various instruments
SKU: EC.6374
Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 21st Century. Full score (SSAA version). E.C. Schirmer Publishing #6374. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.6374).UPC: 600313463747. 8.5" x 11" inches. Text: Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Crossing the Bar creates images of the sea, with the "final voyage" leading us out across the water, to see our "Pilot, face to face." The musical setting endeavors to express the growth from peaceful to ecstatic moods, the tolling of the bell, the meeting of the Pilot. "May there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to see." The poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) is characterized by dark, yet transcendent imagery -- the depths of the ocean, the triumph of the spirit. These poems seem well-suited to musical settings for Men's Chorus. The deep tones. The sonority of male voices (perhaps speaking for the poet) rising in song. Throughout the varied imagery of this poetry -- the depth of the sea, the dark of the night, the tumult of passion and the acceptance of death -- there speaks one, central message. "Love was my lord and king." *Sound recording provided by the High School Mens's Honor Choir, Robert Ward, conductor (Southwestern ACDA Conference 2014).
