Name: Christmas Song (I sought him where the marble shone) for wind quartet and piano by David Warin Solomons Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Christmas Song (I sought him where the marble shone) for wind quartet and piano
by David Warin Solomons Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Christmas Song (I sought him where the marble shone) for wind quartet and piano

Artist David Warin Solomons

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer David Warin Solomons

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 23

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher David Warin Solomons

Level 3

Product ID 1590533

Genre Christmas Religious Classical Contemporary

Instruments Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Piano Accompaniment

Product Description

Instrumental arrangement of my setting of "Christmas song" - being a meditation on finding the Christ child within oneself - the poem is by Audrey Vaughan.

I sought him where the marble shone
and rang with singing echoes
to the hurrying prelates' feet
and found him not

I sought him where the golden glow
and painted heav'n-eyed saints adorn
the sleeping altars
and found him not

I sought him where all nature's beauty burned
with autumn leaves afire
with death against the long blue sky
and found him not

I sought him down the stone sett streets
dull beneath the misty rain
which closed the surrounding hills
and found him not

I sought him in the eyes of strangers
bright with giving thoughts
and in the hearts of friends
but found him not

I sought him
him whom I loved
in ev'ry thing I loved
in my own heart's loving
but this night I found him not

but still I sought him
this gurgling boy of joy, but where?

the dark sky all above and round me
like a suffocating empty cloak
took time away
my thoughts away
my search away

and the peace of emptiness of self
opened the low brown door
and there his newness tiny lay

deep in the shriven hollow
of my heart, cradled there
I found him

©Audrey Vaughan

The audio preview is an mp3 of the first couple of minutes - a full version will be available later.

The pdf contains score and parts

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