Once there were flowers (Leanne Daharja Veitch)

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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: SecularUnknown

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.