Music in an empty house (Alto Saxophone and Guitar) by David Warin Solomons Alto Saxophone - Digital Sheet Music

Based on my setting of a poem by the surrealist poet Hugh Sykes-Davies.The sound sample is an electronic previewThe pdf contains Score and PartsTo avoid an excessive number of sharps in the key signature for the alto saxophone I have transposed the piece up a semitone, so the guitar will need to have a Capo on the 1st fret.The poem is as follows:The house was empty and       the people of the house       gone many months Months for the weevil       for the patient worm       timber-mole softly tunnelling       for the parliament of rats Footsteps slink past       damp walls       down       long       corridors Slow feet       warily scuff       bare boards The much-bitten       tapestry         holds           many       moths In a certain curtain'd room       the halting steps evade       chairs white shrouded To twitch the winding-sheet       around a grand piano       thin phalanx of sound       sharp rat's teeth edge yellow       with decay The much-bitten       tapestry       holds       many       moths On rat's teeth-edge       fingers preparate       hesitate Then falling send   as tenantry     darnp-muffled chords       rusting strings   a still-born song