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- Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2013-02-23). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 160 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Requiem (epitaph for RLS)
Composer: Mark Chapman
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Ode
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Most of the piece is bass solo, either unaccompanied, or accompanied by a wordless alto part. The chorus echoes the soloist. The solo part should be performable by any moderately experienced bass chorister.
Recording 26/06/18, Charis Messalina soprano, Jane Godtschalk mezzo soprano, Mark Chapman bass
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.