Light and splendor (David Lesniaski)
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- Editor: David Lesniaski (submitted 2021-02-27). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 158 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information
Title: Light and splendor
Composer: David Lesniaski
Lyricist: Leonard Cohencreate page
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2010
Description: An unaccompanied SSATB choral setting of Leonard Cohen's poem Light and splendor. Both the poem and composition can be considered as abstract expressions of an event, process, or experience from beginning to end (e.g. as in Haydn's "Sunrise" quartet)....
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Original text and translations
English text
Light and splendor in the sleeping orchards
entering the trees like a silent movie
wedding procession entering the arches
of branches for the sake of love, love only.
From a hill I watched the apple blossoms
breathe out of the night breathe silver
like fish eating the spheres of air
out of the river
So the illuminated night fed the sleeping orchards
entering the branches
the vault of branches
like a holy procession
Long live the power of eyes
Long live the invisible steps
men can read on a mountain
Long live the unknown machine or heart
which by will or accident
pours out with victor's grace
pours out endlessly perfect weather
on the perfect creatures
the world grows light and splendor light.