Every Life Shall Be a Song by Gwyneth W. Walker TTBB - Sheet Music
By Gwyneth W. Walker
20681885
Every Life Shall Be a Song
20681885
20681885
20681885
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TTBB choir and piano, with optional brass quintet and percussion, or orchestra (Orchestra: 2 1 1 1 — 2 2 1 0 — 1 — 0 — Str — TTBB Chorus, Percussion (Timpani, Tenor Drum, Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbals)) - Early Intermediate
SKU: EC.8600
Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. Secular, 21st century. Octavo. Duration 3 minutes, 30 seconds. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #8600. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8600).ISBN 600313486005. UPC: 600313486005. English.
A celebration of life, unity, and music, this is a setting of a poem by the 19th-century British author John Addington Symonds (1840-1893). The text speaks of the future with hope: "A loftier race then e'er the world has known shall rise." The healing and transforming power of music is essential to this hope. "When every life shall be a song, then all the earth is a paradise." Throughout, the message is triumphant: "These things shall be! "
The musical expression alternates between added-tone chords (representing building for the future) and melodic phrases for the more tender passages of the poem: "we will be gentle, brave, and strong "). Commissioned and premiered by the Boston Gay Men's Chorus. Duration: 3:30.
