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Freedom's Cost
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Piano,Tenor Voice - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1071035
Composed by William P. Gorton. 20th Century,Contemporary,Patriotic. Full Performance. Duration 138. William P. Gorton #6118869. Published by William P. Gorton (A0.1071035).
"Freedom's Cost" is a beautiful lament on the price that has been paid by the few for so many, full of irony. With an 18th-century text by William Collins, this art song has been written with the style Schubert in mind (it was a Composition Modeling class project I completed when working on my doctorate). Haunting and lugubrious, it captures the essence of the ironic text.
Lyrics:
How sleep the brave who sink to rest, by all their country’s wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod than Fancy’s feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; by forms unseen their dirge is sung! There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, to bless the turf that wraps their clay; and Freedom shall awhile repair to dwell a weeping hermit there.
--William Collins (1721-1759)
William is also the artist/performer. This song appears on Gorton's album of art songs, "Brimfull," available through his website (see below). Score also available here on Sheet Music Plus.
To learn more about or to contact Dr. Gorton, visit his website: gortonmuse.com This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
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ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
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Piano,Tenor Voice - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1071035
Composed by William P. Gorton. 20th Century,Contemporary,Patriotic. Full Performance. Duration 138. William P. Gorton #6118869. Published by William P. Gorton (A0.1071035).
"Freedom's Cost" is a beautiful lament on the price that has been paid by the few for so many, full of irony. With an 18th-century text by William Collins, this art song has been written with the style Schubert in mind (it was a Composition Modeling class project I completed when working on my doctorate). Haunting and lugubrious, it captures the essence of the ironic text.
Lyrics:
How sleep the brave who sink to rest, by all their country’s wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod than Fancy’s feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; by forms unseen their dirge is sung! There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, to bless the turf that wraps their clay; and Freedom shall awhile repair to dwell a weeping hermit there.
--William Collins (1721-1759)
William is also the artist/performer. This song appears on Gorton's album of art songs, "Brimfull," available through his website (see below). Score also available here on Sheet Music Plus.
To learn more about or to contact Dr. Gorton, visit his website: gortonmuse.com This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
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