IMAGINED CORNERS
for SSSAATTBB choir unaccompanied
Commissioned by Michael Kaye for the opening service of the City of London Festival in St Paul’s Cathedral, 5th July 1992.
ISSUU version for perusal only
Duration: c. 4 minutes
Order No: CH88259
TEXT
At the round earth’s imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ;
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you, whose eyes Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space ; For, if above all these my sins abound, ‘Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace, When we are there. Here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent, for that’s as good As if Thou hadst seal’d my pardon with Thy blood.
John Donne (1572–1631) (Dean of St Paul’s 1621–31)
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JOHNDONNE (1609)
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Conmoto (h=66)
Trebles (div.à3)
Alto (div.à2)
Tenor (div.à2)
Bass (div.à2)
Piano (forrehearsal only)
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But ptenderly let them sleep, Lord,
But ptenderly let them sleep, Lord,
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Slower (h=58)
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Slower (h=52)
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me howto re-pent: As mf if thou pocoapococresc. hadstsealedmy
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