Philip Le Bas

Drop, drop slow tears

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Beschreibung

Komponist
Philip Le Bas
Texter
Phineas Fletcher
Verleger
Philip Le Bas
Genre
Geistliche Musik / Christliche
Instrumentierung
Gemischter Chor
Partitur für
Chor
Art der Partitur
Partitur
Tonart
f-Moll
Länge
3'0"
Sprache
Englisch
Schwierigkeitsgrad
Mittel
Jahr der Komposition
2016
Beschreibung
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.
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31 Mrz 2017
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