DREAMS SYMPHONY by Corey Field - Full Orchestral Score - Scroll with Synth/MP3 Playback

DREAMS SYMPHONY for SATB Chorus and Orchestra (2020) by Corey Field
Movements:
I. Introduction: The Half Light - (Poem by W.B. Yeats) 0:00
II. The Land of Dreams - (Poem by William Blake) 4:15
III. A Dream Within a Dream - (Poem by Edgar Allen Poe) 10:14
IV. The Dream of the Lullaby - (Poem by W.B. Yeats) 15:52
V. Midnight: The Dream of Love - (Text by James Joyce from "Ulysses") 20:18
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This recording is an MP3 digital synthesized playback with scrolling full orchestral score. It is provided to performers to assist in their evaluation of the Dreams Symphony for live performance with chorus and orchestra.
All orchestral and vocal sounds in the recording are generated by a computer synthesizer program using the music notation in the full orchestral score. The synthesized vocal parts are rendered as the syllable "ah" and do not include the actual sung words.
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Instrumentation:
2 Flutes (2nd doubling Piccolo)
2 Oboes
2 Clarinets in A
2 Bassoons (2nd doubling Contrabassoon)
4 Horns in F
3 Trumpets in C
2 Tenor Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (2 players): Crotales, Glockenspiel, Chimes, Crash Cymbals, Suspended Cymbals, Triangle, Tamtam, Bass Drum
Harp
Chorus (SATB)
Strings
Performance duration ca. 29 minutes
Full Texts:
I. Introduction: The Half Light
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
By William Butler Yeats [1865 - 1939]
 
II. The Land of Dreams
Awake, awake!
I had a dream
You were still alive
I walked with you
I saw you there
I could not get to the other side
I am here
In this land of fear
Like the mourning dove I mourn
When shall I return?
Better far,
Above the light of the morning star
Awake, awake!
Adapted from The Land of Dreams
By William Blake [1757 - 1827]
III. A Dream Within a Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow -
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand -
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep - while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe [1809 -1849]
IV. The Dream of the Lullaby
Lullaby
Sleep
Dream
The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.
God's laughing in Heaven
To see you so good;
The Sailing Seven
are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.
Sleep
Dream
Lullaby
Adapted from A Cradle Song
By William Butler Yeats [1865 - 1939]
V. Midnight: The Dream of Love
I love flowers I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses heaven there’s nothing like the wild mountains then the sea the waves rushing the first person in the universe might as well try to stop the sun from rising the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the flowers yes it was leap year like now 16 years ago after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are the sun shines for you today the sea and the sky like fire I was a Flower of the mountain when I put the rose in my hair how he kissed me and I asked him with my eyes to say yes I put my arms around him and drew him down to me yes and his heart was going like mad Yes.
Adapted from Ulysses Episode 18-Penelope
By James Joyce [1882 - 1941]
[Published 1922]
Music, adaptations of texts Copyright 2020 by Corey Field
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