SATB a cappella
Stars Kathleen Allan
2015
2’30� Stars by Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922) Now in the West the slender moon lies low, And now Orion glimmers through the trees, Clearing the earth with even pace and slow, And now the stately-moving Pleiades, In that soft infinite darkness overhead Hang jewel-wise upon a silver thread. And all the lonelier stars that have their place, Calm lamps within the distant southern sky, And planet-dust upon the edge of space, Look down upon the fretful world, and I Look up to outer vastness unafraid And see the stars which sang when earth was made.
Commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir Jon Washburn, Artistic Director This score is not licensed for performance. Please visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.
Commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir Jon Washburn, Artistic Director
Stars Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922)
Kathleen Allan (b.1989)
SATB a cappella
q = 48 Freely
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3 ° b4 & 4 œ œ œ œœ ™™
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‰
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And
And
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Now in the West
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moon lies low,
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now,
And
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through the
4
trees,
moving forward
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‰
3
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trees, mp trees,
with e - ven p
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pace and slow,
moving forward
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Œ
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trees,
with e - ven
pace and
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4 4
slow,
molto mf f
p
8 3 3
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in - fi- nite dark- ness,
that soft
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in - fi- nite dark- ness o - ver - head molto
Hang
mf p
f
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Œ
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bœœ œœ Œ
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dark- ness,
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dark- ness
o
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ver
Œ
head
rit. A tempo poco più mosso 12
p
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jewel - wise up - on
a
sil - ver
w ˙
thread.
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Calm mp
p
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w œ œ œ
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jewel - wise up - on
a
sil - ver
‰ œJ œ œ
thread.
mp And all the
lone- lier stars
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4 4
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place, Calm
4 4
2 mp
mf
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plan- et- dust up - on the edge of
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space,
Look
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4 ˙˙˙™™ 4
lamps with- in the dis- tant south- ern
sky,
Oh
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rit. A tempo meno mosso f 20
mp
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œ bœ œ
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the fret - ful world, Look down up - on
the fret - ful world, and
Ϫ
j bœ ˙
I
look up
Ϫ
j bœ ˙
I
look up
mp f
b œ œ œ œ œ bœ ‰ bœJ
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S2
down up - on
the fret - ful world,
Look down up - on
the world, and
f p molto
& b bœ
A
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bœ œ
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bœ
down
up
-
on
the
fret
-
ful
world,
and
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p
f
bœ bœ œ œ œ œ œ &b ‹ down up - on the fret - ful world,
T
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‰ bœJ
up - on
the fret - ful world, and
f B
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˙ ˙
down
up
-
bœ bœ
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on
the
-
bœ œ
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I, molto
p
w
bœ fret - ful world, and
I,
poco rit. to
out - er
pp vast- ness un - a - fraid
And
see
mp pp the stars which sang when earth was made.
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bw ?b w ¢
b˙˙
-
a
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fraid, pp
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mp
pp
Oh
bw w w
w ˙ ˙
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