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Eric William Barnum
Eric William Barnum
Summer’s Ocean
A dramatic and prismatic image of the sea, sun, and sky.
SATB, piano
Constantly sweeping forward and cresting like waves, “Summer’s Ocean” is set to an often looked over text by Lord Byron: For Music. Commissioned by Rachel Forester and Hebron High School for their TMEA performance, this piece has soaring melodic lines, seductive harmonies, and rich textures all woven together to create evocative imagery about the wide beauty of sea and sky. A worthy collaborative pianist and imaginative singers is a must for this cinematic work.
Text
There be none of Beauty’s daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmèd ocean’s pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull’d winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
Her bright chain o’er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving,
As an infant’s asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer’s ocean.
– George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824)
Text source: Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
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Benediction
Difficulty: 3Duration: less than 3 min.
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