Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Today I present my original composition, SING WITH ME THE EARTH.  I completed this piece in 1992 and scored it for choir and piano.  Below is a screenshot of the title page from the autograph score:


I here pursue my favorite subject—Nature in all her forms.  This composition for full choir and piano, SING WITH ME THE EARTH, is my setting of the first three lines from my father's poem of the same title.

In this piece I imagine myself represented by the piano entering Nature's realm.  As I wander the forest green, I hear the blessed sounds of the Wild calling to me.  As the music unfolds with sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses layering upon each other in fugal fashion, the piano gradually builds in rapturous excitement until it finally runs free in bucolic bliss.

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SING WITH ME THE EARTH, Copyright©1992 DamonMusic by Sean Damon Rohde.  All rights reserved

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