Nocturnes (Scott Villard)

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• (Posted 2016-07-19)  CPDL #40450:      (YouTube)

Editor: Scott Villard (submitted 2016-07-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 320 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

https://youtu.be/BgGvIFWQdA4

General Information

Title: Nocturnes
Composer: Scott Villard
Lyricist: Walt Whitman

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATB, with div.
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1993, 2009
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

1. Twilight
The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be
gone, dispell'd,)
A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.

2. A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson
done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the
themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.