Benjamin Britten
Curlew River
Parable for Church Performance - Rehearsal Score
Benjamin Britten
Curlew River
Parable for Church Performance - Rehearsal Score
- Instrumentation Choir
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Edition Piano Reduction
- Publisher Faber Music
- Order no. 0571500021
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Curlew River - A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (Sumida River) of Juro Motomasa (1395 - 1431), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the Far East in early 1956. Beyond the Noh source dramatic material, Britten incorporated elements of Noh treatment of theatrical time into this composition. Instrumentation: the Madwoman(T),the Ferryman(Bar),the Traveller(bar),theSpirit of the Boy(treble),Leader of the Pilgrims/the Abbot (B), Chorus of Pilgrims (3T, 3 Bar, 2B), 3 Assistants (boys - silent roles) fl(=picc) - horn - viola.bass - harp - perc(1) 5 smalluntuned drums/5 small bells/1 large tuned gong -chamber organ
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Te lucis ante terminum
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Good souls, I would have you know
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O pray for the souls of all that fall
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I am the ferryman
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I come from the Westland
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You mock me! You ask me!
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Clear as a sky without a Cloud May be a mother's mind
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How can I take you in my ferry boat
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Let me remind you
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This mad woman seems, Though her mind may be wand'ring
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Curlew River
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Look! While you were list'ning to my story
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O Curlew River, cruel Curlew
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Who would have guess'd that the boy was her child?
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Hoping, I wander'd on
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He whose life was full of promise
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And, O, to the numberless
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From the river, I hear voices
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Go your way in peace, mother
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Good souls, we have shown you here
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