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CPDL #20342: 
- Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2009-10-14). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 275 KB kB Copyright: Personal, for CPDL. May be freely distributed, duplicated, performed, or recorded. Please inform the composer of any performances of this work.
- Edition notes: Corrected edition uploaded 2010-04-22, correcting B1 in m.32 from G to A.
See also:
- Advent Anthem by Douglas Brooks-Davies for SATB choir, in a different adaptation of the original Rossetti poem.
- Advent a C.M.D. hymn tune with two harmonizations by the composer, inspired by the this work.
- This Advent moon shines cold and clear (Charles H. Giffen) for the hymn using the above hymn tune.
General Information
Title: This Advent moon
Composer: Charles H. Giffen
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2009
Description: This anthem sets the first three stanzas of the poem Advent by the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), albeit with lines 5 and 6 of the first stanza coming first. It was composed for the composer's wife shortly after the death of her father on 15 September 2009.
Except for cadences, the first two sections appear later in strict (chromatic) inversion. The following excerpts illustrate the beginning of the second section:
- "This Advent moon shines bright and clear, these Advent nights are long"
and its subsequent chromatic inversion:
- "'Watchman, what of the night?' But still his answer sounds the same"
Also, part of the chorale melody 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme' appears in inversion. Most of the setting is SATB, although the sopranos and basses divide briefly in the "Watchman" sections, and the vocal texture transforms to SATB divisi after the words 'All night we watch and rise.'
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Original text and translations
English text
(from Advent by Christina Rossetti)
The days are evil looking back,
The coming days are dim.
This Advent moon shines cold and clear,
These Advent nights are long;
Our lamps have burned year after year
And still their flame is strong.
'Watchman, what of the night?' we cry,
Heart-sick with hope deferred:
'No speaking signs are in the sky,'
Is still the watchman's word.
The Porter watches at the gate,
The servants watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
'Watchman, what of the night?' But still
His answer sounds the same:
'No daybreak tops the utmost hill,
Nor pale our lamps of flame.'
One to another hear them speak
The patient virgins wise:
'Surely He is not far to seek'—
'All night we watch and rise.'
'The days are evil looking back,
The coming days are dim;
Yet count we not His promise slack,
But watch and wait for Him.'