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On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven | STACY GARROP

STACY GARROP

a composer with a story to tell

a composer with a story to tell

On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven



AUDIO
Volti; Robert Geary, conductor

DURATION
4’30”

INSTRUMENTATION
SATB (div.) with soprano solo, a cappella

POET
Edna St. Vincent Millay

YEAR COMPOSED
2006

COMMISSIONER
Volti

THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
Sonnets of Beauty and Music

ORDERING SCORES
This work is published as a digital score with a performance license. The pricing is based on the number of singers in a choir:
  • $55: up to 20 singers
  • $110: 21-50 singers
  • $165: 51-79 singers
  • $220: 80+ singers
To order:
  • Click on the link to email Inkjar Publishing Company
  • Specify the number of singers and the name of your choir.
  • An invoice will be sent to you via PayPal.
  • Once payment is received, you will be emailed the licensed PDF within three business days (excluding weekends and holidays).

PERUSAL SCORE
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TEXT
Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease!
Reject me not into the world again.
With you alone is excellence and peace,
Mankind made plausible, his purpose plain.
Enchanted in your air benign and shrewd,
With limbs a-sprawl and empty faces pale,
The spiteful and the stingy and the rude
Sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale.
This moment is the best the world can give:
The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem.
Reject me not, sweet sounds; oh, let me live,
Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them,
A city spell-bound under the aging sun.
Music my rampart, and my only one.