Format : Vocal Score
This is a simple and elegant miniature in characteristic Skempton style with graceful choral homophony seamlessly fluctuating time signatures and hypnotic meandering harmonies. The text by William Shakespeare is an homage to music as Orpheus's singing makes the trees and mountains bow and the sea hang its head and lay by.
SKU: OU.9780193398658
ISBN 9780193398658. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied This is a simple and elegant miniature in characteristic Skempton style, with graceful choral homophony, seamlessly fluctuating time signatures, and hypnotic, meandering harmonies. The text, by William Shakespeare, is an homage to music.
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