Saturday, August 16, 2014

Today I present my original composition, THE DOVE.  I completed this song in 1989 and scored it for soprano and lute.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:


This setting of a poem by John Keats is one of several I made in the late 1980s.  It deals with two subjects of great importance to me: one being birds--those feathery angels who, throughout the arc of my existence, have so often lifted my gaze along with my spirits towards their ethereal realm; the other being death--that dreaded but obligatory harbinger to new life, whose merciless hand I felt at a young age.  May this song help bring peace to those who suffer and reflection to those who suffer not.

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THE DOVE, Copyright©1989 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

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