Lamentation (Mark Chapman)
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- Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2016-07-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 495 kB Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information
Title: Lamentation
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: Eva Schroedercreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lamentation
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Lamentation was composed to words written by the photographer Eva Schroeder for her exhibition Beneath the Bula Smile, and was performed by the chamber choir I Progetti in June 2016. Eva requested the music to be relatively simple, harmonically and texturally, and it attempts to evoke the hardships undergone by rural female vendors in Fiji travelling to the markets in Suva to sell their goods.
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh hear our lamentation
Where oh where is joy to be found
The grind of life is taking its toll
To our culture we are shackled and bound
Where are those moments of beauty
For endlessly we strive and strain
Reaching longingly for something much better
Beyond the suffering and the pain
Oh hear our lamentation
There is no music in our heart
We breathe but in and out each day
Life just lived, then we depart.