The Voice (Huub de Lange)

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• (Posted 2007-09-27)  CPDL #15087: 

Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2007-09-27).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 160 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Voice
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Alice V. Stuart

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Languages: Latin, English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2007
Description: See also A Christmas Fable and Four Stuart Songs.

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.