Every Riven Thing [2013]
for the Aldeburgh English Song Project
Aaron Holloway-Nahum www.aaronhollowaynahum.com
Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman (used with permission) God goes, belonging to every riven thing he's made sing his being simply by being the thing it is: stone and tree and sky, man who sees and sings and wonders why God goes. Belonging, to every riven thing he's made, means a storm of peace. Think of the atoms inside the stone. Think of the man who sits alone trying to will himself into a stillness where God goes belonging. To every riven thing he's made there is given one shade shaped exactly to the thing itself: under the tree a darker tree; under the man the only man to see God goes belonging to every riven thing. He's made the things that bring him near, made the mind that makes him go. A part of what man knows, apart from what man knows, God goes belonging to every riven thing he's made.
Every Riven Thing Words by Christian Wiman from 'Every Riven Thing' FSG 2010 Used with Permission
Music by Aaron Holloway-Nahum
q = 66 with energy and life p cantabile espressivo
°? 4 ¢ 4
Baritone
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˙ ∑
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4 Ó nn˙˙ &4
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to ev -ery riv -en
thing
he's
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made.
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w w
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being
sim - ply by
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∑
bƜ J
n˙
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being the thing it is with insistent presence
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stone
and
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tree
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sky
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man who sees and sings
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and won -ders why
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goes.
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q = 80 (sub.) quickening 3
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mp decresc. Pno.
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mp 40
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un -der the
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tree a dar - ker
tree; un - der the man the on -ly
man to see
(prepared notes with blue tac: stopped, thudding sound)
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45
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thing.
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? 43
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to
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∑
nœ Œ œ
ery
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accel (prepared notes with blue tac: bell-like sound) Pno.
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tre corde
q = 96 more urgently quasi resitative 51
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j ‰ 44 Œ ‰ œJ œ
°? ¢ ˙ thing.
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He's made the things
that bring him
œ
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near,
made the mind
q = 96 more urgently
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∑
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thatmakes him go.
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a - part from what man knows,
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60
b œo
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°? 3 4
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God
goes
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be mf (as before)
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‰ 43 Œ
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long - ing
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goes
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long - ing
to
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64
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thing.
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he's
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thing
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he's
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≈ j ‰ -
made.
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