The Poetry of Earth from Two Keats Choruses
Divisi - Sheet Music

SATB choir (divisi) unaccompanied - Late Intermediate

SKU: EC.8087

Composed by Joshua Fishbein. Secular, 21st century. Octavo. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #8087. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8087).

UPC: 600313480874. English.

John Keats’s poetry is especially well-suited to music because of its rich imagery and clear formal structures. The music here was composed within an English musical aesthetic, appropriate for a text by an English poet. Much of the music, especially the double choir sections, were inspired by the English choral music in the Anglican tradition. In addition to antiphonal textures, this piece employs some complex polyphony, reminiscent of the Renaissance, with a rich harmonic palette full of clusters and cross-relations. The piece ends in a dreamlike state, where the grasshopper and cricket are blurred into the overall beauty of nature. May be performed jointly as Two Keats Choruses with The Human Seasons (8086).