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The Sun and Stars are Mine

Bob Chilcott
Barcode 9780193400481
Sheet Music

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Release Date: 01/05/2014

Edition: Vocal Score
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Sub-Genre: Sheet Music
Label: Oxford University Press
Contributors: Bob Chilcott (By (composer))
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press

for SSA and pianoThis piece is a lyrical setting of words by the metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne (1637-74). With a rippling piano accompaniment, melodious vocal lines, and warm harmonies, Chilcott's setting captures the wonder in the text, as Traherne reflects with awe on the transient nature of life. for SSA and pianoThe Sun and Stars Are Mine is a lyrical setting of words by the metaphysical poet and clergyman Thomas Traherne (1637-74). With a rippling piano accompaniment, melodious vocal lines, and warm harmonies, Chilcott's setting captures the wonder in the text, as Traherne reflects with awe on the transient nature of life: 'When silent I so many thousand years, . how could I lips or hands or eyes or ears perceive?'