Once there were flowers (Leanne Daharja Veitch)
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CPDL #23217: [ Sibelius 3]
- Editor: Leanne Daharja Veitch (submitted 2011-02-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 72 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Personal, released under Creative Commons License 3.0.
General Information
Title: Once There Were Flowers
Composer: Leanne Daharja Veitch
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2011
Description:
This work was composed in February 2011, when I was moving through some deeply upsetting personal difficulties. The text is original.
A setting for recorder ensemble (5 parts) is available upon request - please contact me at my website (below) for copies (also available under CC license 3.0).
As always, if you choose to perform this work, I would love to hear about it, and would love a recording if possible. Thanks :-)
External websites: http://daharjacomposer.blogspot.com
Original text and translations
- Once there were flowers, now they are gone
- Petal and blossom scorched by the sun
- Summer is over, winter is come
- Once there were flowers, now they are gone.
- Once there was music, now it is gone
- Silent the voice which once rose in song.
- Silent the singer, silent the song
- Once there was music, now it is gone.
- Once there were leaves, but now they are gone
- Strength will remain, though stripped to the bone.
- There will be a new song: how can morning bring a light?
- Love's sacrifice, and dawn breaks the night.
- Where is the song that gave such sweet bliss?
- Where is the song that gave such as this?
- Melody within us brings forth the song:
- Hope is renewed; Love's music lives on.