Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Summer Is Gone
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Summer Is Gone
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB)
- Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Editor James E. Green Marques L.A. Garrett
- Edition Choral Score Download
- Publisher Gentry Publications
- Order no. 01197761-DL
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Description:
The Out from the Shadows Choral Series brings you Summer Is Gone, a new setting of British poet Christina Rosetti's 1862 poem Bitter for Sweet. The composer, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, displays superb control of text painting and dynamics, creating vocal lines as natural as speech. In perfect harmony with Rosetti's text, falling chromatic figures tossed back and forth among voice parts create an inescapable sense of decay and sorrow. Taylor's harmonic rhythm conveys the latent impression of time stretching and constricting. A truly masterful work, this piece makes for a great festival or competition performance. A fun challenge for an accomplished chamber or larger choir, and a memorable addition to any concert.