To Sleep (Geoff Allan)
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- (Posted 2017-01-14) CPDL #42642:
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- Editor: Geoff Allan (submitted 2017-01-14). Score information: A4, 54 pages, 4.96 MB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Edition freely available for copying and performance. Please let the author know if you are performing the work. Please send me a recording after your performnce, I would love to hear it. (You could always invite me to the performance too).
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General Information
Title: To Sleep
Composer: Geoff Allan
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Cantata
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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Description: A choral suite/cantata setting some of Shakespeare's words concerning sleep. The suite has 8 movements, the first and last being identical. The work is set for SATB choir, SATB solos (preferably taken from the choir) and piano accompaniment. The suite begins and ends with a distorted Westminster chime (as if heard while falling asleep) and the words from "The Tempest" .. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep". The linked mp3 files are performed by a sampled choir, "Voices of Prague" and the composer singing the solos (sometimes in the wrong octave). This should give the listener some idea of the work. These will be replaced by "real" recordings as soon as possible.
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