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CPDL #12986: Sibelius 4
- Editor: Peter Bird (added 2006-11-02). Score information: Letter, 26 pages, 428 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Text page and organ part follow the score within the single .pdf file. Page turns should follow odd-numbered pages.
General Information
Title: An anthem of Earth
Composer: Peter Bird
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SAATBB
Genre: Secular, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published: 2006
Description: An episodic piece in Romantic style: In the 1st section, 4 environments of Earth are presented with different themes. In 2nd section, the progress of civilization is represented by a chorale, but in the 3rd this collides and merges with the theme for encroaching desert. The 4th section presents a more positive outlook with reprise of the forest theme. There is a multicultural coda.
External websites: http://peterbird.name/choral/
Original text and translations
English text
- Blue, and brown, and green, and white:
- Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra, Earth.
- Blue of the ocean.
- Brown of the desert, and brown of the prairie.
- Green of the tangled forest.
- White of the snow.
- Blue, and brown, and green, and white.
- Continents split and reunite.
- Life springs up from water and light.
- People sing to stars at night:
- Life is short; the art is long.
- Ethics, law, and religion;
- Math and physics growing strong;
- Art and music raise a song.
- In all our pride, we must recall:
- Earth is home and life to all.
- If we burn, and tear, and gall
- Arts and cities both shall fall.
- So if you love this fragile sphere,
- Put all your hope into one child;
- Her son might live beside the wild,
- With room for forest, wolf, and deer.
- There are deer in the tangled forest;
- There are wolves in the tangled forest;
- And frogs in the tangled forest;
- And owls in the tangled forest.
- Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra: our Earth.