Requiem (epitaph for RLS) (Mark Chapman)

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Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2013-02-23).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 160 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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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

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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.

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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.