Now sleeps the crimson petal (Mark Chapman)

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• (Posted 2017-09-01)  CPDL #46141:       

Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2017-08-31).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

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Title: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SAATBB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Setting of Tennyson's poem, requested by Charis de Valence, as a favorite poem of her youth. The full 6 parts (the Bass momentary divides further in two places) are only heard together at climaxes, with interplay between them elsewhere, and the harmonies are lushly chromatic.

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