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Eric William Barnum
Eric William Barnum
After Music
Sentimental and deeply meaningful piece about how music calls us home.
SATB, piano
The text penned by Josephine Preston Peabody is a sentiment immediately understandable and moving to any musician. That music has the innate ability to ‘call’ and ‘move’ is certainly and generally understood, but how does one intimate that aspect properly? How do we speak of music’s stirring of our heart and ways? How do we speak of it’s ‘otherness’ or heavenly qualities? This text gives voice to these questions and will speak to the very heart of your singers.
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I saw not they were strange, the ways I roam,
Until the music called, and called me thence,
And tears stirred in my heart as tears may come
To lonely children straying far from home,
Who know not how they wandered so, nor whence.
If I might follow far and far away
Unto the country where these songs abide,
I think my soul would wake and find it day,
Would tell me who I am, and why I stray,—
Would tell me who I was before I died.
– Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
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