THREE SCOTTISH POEMS, for Chorus A Capella
Harold Blumenfeld
About this work:
THREE SCOTTISH POEMS after L A G Strong, for mixed chorus a capella. Settings of poet's great dirge "LOW TIDE" and other poems...
My first opus, composed while at Yale. I approve of this student work, revised 1993...
"LOW TIDE" is vast dirge, dramatic, with setting expanding to eight parts at its culmination.......
>Former Pub. MMB Music now closed. Published by COMPOSER: blumenf@wustl.edu
Choral (piano/vocal) score $4....
Text of "Low Tide"---
"Over the mile of sand
with a slow tread, black lonely figures
struggling side by side,
the weary line of mourners and the dead
pass at low tide.
While in the pipes' rebellion,
in a flood wild as the crying gull
beside the sea, the pride and passion
of an ancient blood triumph on misery."
Version: 1993
Year composed: 1993
Duration: 00:08:00
Ensemble type: Chorus, with or without Solo Voices:Chorus, Unaccompanied
Instrumentation: 6 S, 6 A, 6 T, 6 B
Instrumentation notes: Music for a capella chorus, centered on powerful, elemental dirge with Scottish flavor.
Choral parts reduced for piano in choral score, for rehearsal only.