Drop, drop slow tears
SM-000284369
Description
- Composer
- Philip Le Bas
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Lyricist
-
Phineas Fletcher
- Publisher
- Philip Le Bas
- Genre
- Religious / Christian
- Instrumentation
- Mixed choir
- Scored for
- Choir
- Type of score
- Full score
- Key
- F minor
- Duration
- 3'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Year of composition
- 2016
- Description
- A short setting by Philip Le Bas of the classic words of the Jacobean poet Phineas Fletcher. This passionate poem expresses heartfelt regret and penitential remorse for sin. It was most famously set to music as a hymn by Orlando Gibbons and more recently as an anthem by William Walton. This new anthem for SATB choir tries to capture in a more modern way the drama and depth of the words, while retaining a simplicity that enables it to be sung by a church choir. It is particularly suitable for Holy Week services or more generally in Advent and Lent.
DROP, drop, slow tears,
And bathe those beauteous feet
Which brought from Heaven
The news and Prince of Peace:
Cease not, wet eyes,
His mercy to entreat;
To cry for vengeance
Sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods
Drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let His eye
See sin, but through my tears.
- Upload date
- 31 Mar 2017
- Total downloads
- 5
Comments
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