By What Wings An Elegy for five male voices
SCOTT LEE
By What Wings was written for Amarcord’s residency at Duke University, and is dedicated to those we have lost in recent years: Willie Pratt Lee Agnes Vernelle Robinson Lee Donna Rae Collins Link Betty Louise Anderson Patterson William Morris Raymund
The text for Elegy comes from the obituary of Captaine Georges Guynemer, a French pilot who disappeared in battle in September of 1917. The obituary was written by Henri Lavedan and published in the October 6, 1917 edition of the French magazine, L’Illustration. The translation reads: He was neither seen nor heard as he fell, his body and his machine were never found. Where has he gone? By what wings did he manage to glide into immortality? Nobody knows: nothing is known. He ascended and never came back, that is all. Perhaps our descendents will say: He flew so high that he could not come down again.
Duration: ca. 4’30”
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Score
By What Wings An Elegy for five male voices
Tenor 1
Tenor 2
Elegaic q = ca. 100-112
3 V4
!
!
" 3 ˙ #œ V4
Baritone
Bass 1
" #˙.
˙.
˙.
#˙. !
T2
P 3 V 4 œ œ #œ
B
B1
B2
3 V4
P ? 3 œ. 4 ?3 4
P ? 3 œ. 4
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b˙.
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#œ
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!
pp subito ˙.
" ˙
pp subito #˙. Ah
#œ.
!
4 ˙ 4
#˙
n˙.
Ah
4 4
Ah
4 n˙. 4
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#œ.
pp subito ˙.
Ah
#œ
4 4
3 4
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T2
B
B1
B2
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B1
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fell.
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he fell.
43
2 4
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nei
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nei - ther seen
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heard as
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seen
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F
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were
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T2
B
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B2
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were ne - ver found.
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non-falsetto
4
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gone?
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gone?
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gone?
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4
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gone?
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P
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gone?
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f
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3
f œ b˙
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T1
p F 3 #˙. œ œ #œ œ
3
chine were
By What Wings
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3
3
glide in - to im - mor
-
ta - li - ty?
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glide,
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#˙
glide.
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44
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T2
V
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p U œ œ œ ˙ V p U ? œ œ œ ˙ p ? # œ œ œ U˙
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p ? œ œ œ U˙
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50
T2
B
V
f œ #œ œ œ
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B1
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B2
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-
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3
p cresc. #w
3
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f #œ
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f œ
ver
came
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ver
came
-
back.
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ver
came
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p cresc. #˙
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back.
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ver
came
f œ
back.
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back.
f œ
back.
p n 44 ˙
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p 4 ˙ 4
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p ˙
p 4 b˙ 4
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as
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came
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T1
3
Ó
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No - bo - dy knows.
B2
3
3
" U œ œ œ ˙
F Œ ˙
P #œ. œ Œ œ œ 43 JŒ
p cresc. Œ #˙ œ
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No - bo - dy knows.
B1
Ó
3
No - bo - dy knows.
B
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all.
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all.
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56 T1
T2
B
B1
p #˙ p #˙
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Ah
P ? 3 Œ #œ œ 4 ? 43
63 T1
T2
B
V
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B1
B2
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our
de
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say,
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scen - dents will
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say,
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will
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say:
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p subito #˙.
n˙.
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p subito #˙ #œ
˙.
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p subito ˙.
p subito #œ ˙
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p subito ˙.
˙
43
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say
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say:
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say,
Ah
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say:
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say:
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B2
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p ˙ #œ #˙ Ah,
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say
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2 4
#œ œ œ will
3 4 3 4
#œ 2 œ. J 3 4 4 will
2 ˙ 4
3 4
6
3 V4
72 T1
T2
B
B1
B2
f #˙.
By What Wings
˙
f 3 ˙. V4 ?3 4 ?3 4
They
They
will
pp subito #˙ œ
f œ #˙ say,
P 79 #œ œ Œ V
Œ
œ
say,
cresc.
œ
say
#œ
They
will
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#˙
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p
say,
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œ
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p cresc.
rit.
will say,
pp subito cresc. #˙ œ #œ #˙
f œœ ˙
f ? 3 #˙ 4
p cresc. #œ œ#œ œ
will say,
say,
cresc.
˙
˙ #œ
will
say,
will say,
2 œ. 4 2 4
œ
will
will
He flew
T2
B
B1
B2
V
!
?
!
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! !
p ˙ #œ
high
that he could
œ œ œ
will say,
say,
will
2 4 ˙
say,
œ
3
ne - ver come
Flew so
Flew so
4 w 4
3 b œ . œJ œ 4
4 #w 4
3 nœ. œ œ 4 J
44 w
j 43 b œ . œ œ
p ˙ œ p ˙ œ p
Flew so
#˙ œ Flew so
high,
high,
high,
high,
3 4 # œ . œJ œ ne - ver
come
ne - ver come
ne - ver come
ne - ver come
ƒ U˙ .
will say,
say:
˙ 3 œ œ 4 3 4
˙.
ƒU #˙. ƒ U˙ .
say,
p œ œ #˙.
rit.
say:
say:
they
F #˙
ƒU #˙.
will say,
3 4 œ.
˙
say,
3 4
œ ˙. J 3 4
œ.
4 #˙ 4
#˙
will say,
œ
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say, will say,
œ #œ œ
A bit slower (q = ca. 66-72)
T1
will say,
#œ #œ œ œ J
œœ 2 œ 4 will
œ œ œ
œ œ 2 œ 4
œ #œ ˙
ƒU
say:
bœ.
˙.
will
say:
U
a tempo
˙.
F p U j j # œ œ. œ œ ‰ Œ Œ #œ #œ ˙ down
F #˙
down
down
F ˙
down
F ˙
a - gain.
down
a - gain
U p # œ ˙ œ ‰ Œ Œ #œ #œ J a - gain
p U œ ‰ Œ Œ #œ #˙. J
a - gain
p U j‰ Œ Œ œ #œ #˙.
a - gain