The Voice (Huub de Lange)
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- Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2007-09-27). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 160 kB Copyright: Personal
General Information
Title: The Voice
Composer: Huub de Lange
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 2007
Description: Composition on a poem by Alice V. Stuart (1899-1983). See also A Christmas Fable and Three Stuart Songs.
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Original text and translations
English text
‘O mater Dei: memento mei’
Thus speaks the vesper bell
Sweeter than tongue can tell.
Throught the long-falling
Shadows of evening
Its softly tolling
Voice still implores
‘O mater Dei: memento mei’
In all my living,
My slipping and striving,
Faith and denying:
In my hard dying
‘O mater Dei: memento mei’
Though the clear bell tone
Trembles to silence
Still does its prayer
Deep in the heart of hearts
Ever reverberate,
Sounding, resounding
‘O mater Dei: memento mei’
Thus speaks the vesper bell
Sweeter than tongue can tell.