A Slumber
Instrumentation: SATB a cappella
Purchase: SATB a cappella
Duration: 2:30
Language: English
Story: Winner of the 2018 World Projects Composition Contest. An excerpt from the larger Requiem, this piece encounters the depression and stifled sense of movement, energy, and inertia felt after a loved one passes.
Purchase: SATB a cappella
Duration: 2:30
Language: English
Story: Winner of the 2018 World Projects Composition Contest. An excerpt from the larger Requiem, this piece encounters the depression and stifled sense of movement, energy, and inertia felt after a loved one passes.
Text:
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
- William Wordsworth
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
- William Wordsworth