Geoffrey Bush
Music When Soft Voices Die
Geoffrey Bush
Music When Soft Voices Die
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB)
- Composer Geoffrey Bush
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Novello Publishing
- Order no. NOV252428
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Description:
Music, When Soft Voices Die is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London. The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. Many composers and musicians have set the poem to music with vocal accompaniment. The excellent version for SATB Chorus with Pianoaccompaniment composed by Geoffrey Bush is now available as part of the Elkin Choral Series. Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of20th-centuryEnglish music. His compositions include 5 operas, 2 symphonies, choral pieces such as his Christmas Cantata and many songs, generally in the lieder style.