HYMN SYMPHONY by Corey Field - Vocal Score Scroll with Synth Playback

HYMN SYMPHONY for SATB Chorus and Orchestra by Corey Field (2020).
Movements:
I. Hymn to the Earth (Text: "The Source" by Edward Thomas)
II. Hymn to Eternity (Text: Excerpts from poems by William Blake) 5:18
III. Hymn to a Prayer (Text: Corey Field) 10:12
IV. Hymn to a Requiem (Psalm 88) (Text: Adapted from Psalm 88) 16:16
V. Hymn to the Stars (Text: Adapted from Genesis) 21:12
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This recording is an MP3 digital synthesized playback with scrolling piano/vocal score. It is provided to performers to assist in their evaluation of the Hymn Symphony for live performance with singers 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, Cymbals, Suspended Cymbals, Triangle, Tamtam, Bass Drum
Harp
Chorus (SATB)
Strings
Performance duration ca. 28 minutes
Complete Poems and Texts:
I. Hymn to the Earth
All day the air triumphs with its two voices
Of wind and rain:
As loud as if in anger it rejoices,
Drowning the sound of earth
That gulps and gulps in choked endeavour vain
To swallow the rain.
Half the night, too, only the wild air speaks
With wind and rain,
Till forth the dumb source of the river breaks
And drowns the rain and wind,
Bellows like a giant bathing in mighty mirth
The triumph of earth.
(Poem: "The Source" by Edward Thomas)
II. Hymn to Eternity
In futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)
Shall arise and seek
For her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become garden mild.*
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heav’n in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.**
Turn away no more:
Why wilt thou turn away?
The starry floor,
The watery shore,
Are given thee till the break of day.***
From poems by William Blake:
* from The Little Girl Lost
** from Auguries of Innocence
*** from Hear the Bard
 
III. Hymn to a Prayer
If all of my words
Were written in air
Silent as sky
I would do anything
If you could hear me now
Still as moonlight
Silent as stars
Hear me
See me
For you
For me
Amen
The dreams in my mind
Infinite waves
Crashing like time
I would do anything
If you could hear me now
Still as moonlight
Silent as stars
Hear me
See me
For you
For me
Amen
(Text by Corey Field)
IV. Hymn to a Requiem (Psalm 88)
O lord, I have cried day and night
My soul, and my life, draw unto the grave
Why cast off my soul?
Why hide from me?
Selah Lord
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?
Thou hast laid me in darkness, in the deep
I have known death from my youth
Thy wrath, lies upon me, beneath all thy waves
Shall thy love be in the grave?
Lovers and friends far from me
My eyes grow dim
Selah Lord
Your waves do encompass
I am floating free
Far from Thee
Remember me
Adapted from Psalm 88: Sources - Geneva Bible (1560), Bishops Bible (1568), King James Bible (1611).
V. Hymn to the Stars
I will curse the ground no more
No more to destroy
I have set my bow in the cloud
That I will think
That I will remember
Seed time and harvest,
And summer and winter
And day and night
Shall not cease
Look up now to heaven
And number the stars
If you can
Look up into heaven
And count the stars
If you can
Adapted from Genesis Chapters 8, 9, and 15: Sources - Geneva Bible (1560), Bishops Bible (1568), King James Bible (1611)
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All music and adaptations of texts and poems (c) by Corey Field
Published by First Leaf Music (BMI)