A Winter Dawn (choir version) [SCORE]

A Winter Dawn

for SATB chorus a cappella (with divisi)

[2018]

 

Premiered by That Choir. Craig Pike, artistic director. Featured work: That Choir Fall 2017 New Works Development Program. Toronto ON Canada

 

text by L.M. Montgomery

music by E.K.R. Hammell

 

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-Full Score PDF [with rehearsal piano part] (SKU:EH0006A)

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listen:

https://soundcloud.com/ekrhammellmusic/a-winter-dawn

 

score video:

https://youtu.be/nY6PEEfQ3dI

 

duration:

4 mins

difficulty:

Medium

 

program notes:

A Winter Dawn is a piece for a cappella SATB chorus composed as a musical response to the poem of the same name by L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942). It attempts to use musical ideas in a way that evokes feelings of both physical and spiritual awakening, amidst imagery of snow, wind, and sky.

 

text:

L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

A Winter Dawn

Above the marge of night a star still shines,
And on the frosty hills the sombre pines
Harbour an eerie wind that crooneth low
Over the glimmering wastes of virgin snow.

Through the pale arch of orient the morn
Comes in a milk-white splendor newly-born,
A sword of crimson cuts in twain the gray
Banners of shadow hosts, and lo, the day!