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Songs of Farewell
Six choral motets by Hubert Parry
Year1918 (1918)
PeriodRomantic
GenreChoral music
TextPoetry texts; the Bible
LanguageEnglish
Composed1916 (1916) – 1918 (1918): England

Songs of Farewell is a set of six choral motets by the British composer Hubert Parry. The pieces were composed between 1916 and 1918 and were among his last compositions before his death.

The songs were written during the First World War when a number of Parry's pupils at the Royal College of Music were being killed in action. Parry's choice of texts are thought to reflect a yearning to escape the violence of a world at war, and to find peace in a heavenly realm. In contrast to Parry's assured 1916 setting of William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time", "Jerusalem", Songs of Farewell is seen as representing a decline in national confidence.[1][2]

Songs

The composer, Hubert Parry

The six motets consist of poems by British poets and a Bible text, set to music for unaccompanied choir.

"My soul, there is a country"
Text by Henry Vaughan, set for SATB choir
"I know my soul hath power"
Text by John Davies, set for SATB choir
"Never weather-beaten sail"
Text by Thomas Campion, set for SSATB choir
"There is an old belief"
Text by John Gibson Lockhart, set for SSATBB choir
"At the round earth's imagined corners"
Text by John Donne, set for SSAATTBB choir
"Lord, let me know mine end"
Text from Psalm 39, set for SATB double choir

See also

References

  1. ^ Hughes, Meirion; Stradling, Robert; Stradling, R. A. (2001). English Musical Renaissance, 1840-1940. Manchester University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780719058301. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. ^ Parry, C. Hubert H. Quinney, Robert (ed.). Songs of Farewell (notes to the vocal score). ISBN 9780193518469. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)