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Full Fathom Five
for TTBB and piano

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FULL FATHOM FIVE

 

Voicing: TTBB and piano or SATB and piano;
Ordering info: Classica Music Publishers.
Difficulty: Moderate
Duration:5'

Text from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Full fadom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! Now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.

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Commissioned by Da Camera Singers, Edmonton in 2004, and first performed by them on March 13, 2005. Other choirs that have performed Fathom are Chor Leoni and the University of Guelph Chamber Singers. The SATB arrangement was completed in June 2007.

 

Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

Voicing: TTBB and pno.
Text: Joseph Simpson Cook
Ordering info: Canadian International Music ;in the U.S. Lorenz Corp.; in Europe Unisong Music Publishers
Level of Difficulty: easy
Duration: 3’
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THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS

TTBB a cappella
Text: Wisdom 3:1-3
This work was written specifically for men's voices. It was composed in 2000 and has since been sung on numerous occasions by Chor Leoni of Vancouver. The work was broadcast on the CBC program “This Morning” as part of a tribute to the Canadian soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan in April 2002.

Now available from Classica Music Publishers.

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REVIEW from "The Choral Room" (Spring 2005)

It is so appropriate that this piece dedicated to the memory of the composer’s father and set to a text from
Wisdom 3:1-3 be scored for men’s voices. The striking harmonies filled with richness of phrase gesture are uncanny. Bevan loves to change keys and seems to do it effortlessly. The range requirements for the men are reasonable but also expand into larger demands. The basses must have a solid C but at a triple piano. The tenors must be able to phonate a high a2 in the tenor range on a double forte. This composer obviously understands and is able to write for the voice in an uncanny fashion to bring the most out of his music. The harmonies and counterpoint are extremely effective. This lament to his father’s death has a universal language that touches everyone.

 


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