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Composer: Alan Taylor Title: Wordsworth's Ode Instrumentation: Four part choir - two lines for female voices and two for male voices. None of the lines requires extremities of ranges. Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: Easy Technical Issues: This setting for four part choir, uses the first verse of the Wordsworth Ode. The setting is technically undemanding. The second section contains cross noteheads which indicate approximate pitches. Programme note: Wordsworth's Ode "Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood" consists of a long debate, conducted in deeply moving language, weighing up first one side, and then the other of the argument concerning whether ecstatic sentiments of joy in nature and, of course, early memories, are evidence of the immortality of the soul. The poem concludes with the words: "To me the meanest flower that blows can give This setting uses only the first verse, which comes to a more desolate conclusion. Availability:From my SibeliusMusic home page where you can view, play, and print the piece or from Alan Taylor |
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