for the Amherst College Concert Choir Mallorie Chernin, director
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Music © 2014 Gregory W. Brown (ASCAP) “Then” from CEREMONY AND OTHER POEMS by Richard Wilbur. Copyright © 1950, renewed 1978 by Richard Wilbur. Used by permissionPlease of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. This score is not licensed for performance. visit MusicSpoke.com to purchase performance copies.
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Then (Brown/Wilbur)
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& Ó
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11
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thought
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years
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ness
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the
fine
same.
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we read
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44
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44
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44
N˙.
p
44
loss,
p
loss These
lat - ter
loss,
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no
we
leaf
4 4
of
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and
read
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˙.
43
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same.
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read
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U
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same.
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the
3
42
∑
19
years
ev - er
dim
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3
loss
V œ
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breve
poco rall.
of 14
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re - turn
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Then (Brown/Wilbur)
4 &4 Œ
23
P œ œ nœ œ Of
a year when
4 &4 w
f 3 œ 4 œ ˙ birds now
still.*
F
3 4 Ó P
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4 V 4 ˙. tell,
sub.
when
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birds now
F 34 œœ
4 ˙. 4
p
‰ œ 44 n œ - œ nœ œ ˙ were
still,*
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sub.
birds
Œ
p
still,*
3 4
∑
3 4 Œ
all one choir - ing call,
P ‰ œ œ œ
were all one
4 ˙˙ .. 4
Œ
3 4
∑
˙. 44 ˙ .
Œ
43
∑
* sopranos sustain the vowel in “still” as you ordinarily would tenors and basses close quickly to “l”
p ‰ œ
& Ó
27
& œ œ œ choir - ing call V ? Ó
p
Till
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Till
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44 w
U
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U
∑
44 Œ
the
the
∑ p ‰ œ
Till
un - re - turn - ing
un - re - turn - ing
œ œ œ œ œ œ the
un - re - turn - ing
∑
poco rit.
leaves…
leaves…
44 w
∑
p œ œ œ bœ œ ‰
U
Im - per - ish - a - bly
fell.
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˙. U
∑
leaves…
D.C. al fine
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Belchertown, MA Jan 2014