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*{{NewWork|2006-11-02}} '''CPDL #12986:''' [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/d/d1/An_anthem_of_Earth.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/30/An_anthem_of_Earth.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/35/An_anthem_of_Earth.sib Sibelius 4] | *{{NewWork|2006-11-02}} '''CPDL #12986:''' [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/d/d1/An_anthem_of_Earth.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/30/An_anthem_of_Earth.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/35/An_anthem_of_Earth.sib Sibelius 4] | ||
:'''Editor:''' [[User:Peter Bird|Peter Bird]] ''(added 2006-11-02)''. | :'''Editor:''' [[User:Peter Bird|Peter Bird]] ''(added 2006-11-02)''. '''Score information: '''Letter, 26 pages, 428 kbytes '''Copyright:''' [[ChoralWiki:Personal|Personal]]<br> | ||
'''Score information: '''Letter, 26 pages, 428 kbytes | |||
'''Copyright:''' [[ChoralWiki:Personal|Personal]]<br> | |||
:'''Edition notes:''' Text page and organ part follow the score within the single .pdf file. Page turns should follow odd-numbered pages. | :'''Edition notes:''' Text page and organ part follow the score within the single .pdf file. Page turns should follow odd-numbered pages. | ||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
<b>Original text</b> | <!-- <b>Original text: </b> --> | ||
{{Text|English}} | {{Text|English}} | ||
Blue, and brown, and green, and white: | :Blue, and brown, and green, and white: | ||
Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra, Earth. | :Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra, Earth. | ||
Blue of the ocean. | :Blue of the ocean. | ||
Brown of the desert, and brown of the prairie. | :Brown of the desert, and brown of the prairie. | ||
Green of the tangled forest. | :Green of the tangled forest. | ||
White of the snow. | :White of the snow. | ||
Blue, and brown, and green, and white. | :Blue, and brown, and green, and white. | ||
Continents split and reunite. | :Continents split and reunite. | ||
Life springs up from water and light. | :Life springs up from water and light. | ||
People sing to stars at night: | :People sing to stars at night: | ||
Life is short; the art is long. | :Life is short; the art is long. | ||
Ethics, law, and religion; | :Ethics, law, and religion; | ||
Math and physics growing strong; | :Math and physics growing strong; | ||
Art and music raise a song. | :Art and music raise a song. | ||
In all our pride, we must recall: | :In all our pride, we must recall: | ||
Earth is home and life to all. | :Earth is home and life to all. | ||
If we burn, and tear, and gall | :If we burn, and tear, and gall | ||
Arts and cities both shall fall. | :Arts and cities both shall fall. | ||
So if you love this fragile sphere, | :So if you love this fragile sphere, | ||
Put all your hope into one child; | :Put all your hope into one child; | ||
Her son might live beside the wild, | :Her son might live beside the wild, | ||
With room for forest, wolf, and deer. | :With room for forest, wolf, and deer. | ||
There are deer in the tangled forest; | :There are deer in the tangled forest; | ||
There are wolves in the tangled forest; | :There are wolves in the tangled forest; | ||
And frogs in the tangled forest; | :And frogs in the tangled forest; | ||
And owls in the tangled forest. | :And owls in the tangled forest. | ||
Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra: our Earth. | :Dunia, Dhara, Gaea, Terra: our Earth. | ||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] |
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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://element.ess.ucla.edu/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.