Product Description:
PDF score of The Sleep Wind.
Please note: 10 copy minimum. Please purchase one copy per member of your choir.
Please note: 10 copy minimum. Please purchase one copy per member of your choir.
Program Note:
The Sleep Wind sets the last stanza of Sappho's only complete, surviving work by the same name. This excerpt of her profound and pensive text focuses on the great mysteries of art, death, legacy, and the peace that can come with endings.
Instrumentation:
SSAA unaccompanied choir
Recording:
Score:
Text:
The Sleep Wind (final stanza)
When the great silence shall come to thee, sad one,
Men that forget shall remember thy music,
Murmur thy name that shall steal on their passion
Soft as the sleep wind.
-Sappho (c. 610- c. 570 BCE)
Translation by John Myers O’Hara (1910)
When the great silence shall come to thee, sad one,
Men that forget shall remember thy music,
Murmur thy name that shall steal on their passion
Soft as the sleep wind.
-Sappho (c. 610- c. 570 BCE)
Translation by John Myers O’Hara (1910)