Barlow Bradford Publishing

Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun

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Series: Signature Secular Series
Format: SATB Choral Score
Accompaniment: Piano or Orchestra
Composer: Barlow Bradford
Text: Walt Whitman
Performance time - ca. 6:10

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Choral Score or Orchestration
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1 - Conductor Score (Full Score)

1 - Flute
1 - Oboe
1 - Bb Clarinet 1
1 - Bb Clarinet 2
1 - Bassoon

1 - F Horn 1
1 - F Horn 2
1 - C Trumpet 1
1 - C Trumpet 2
1 - Trombone 1
1 - Trombone 2

1 - Timpani

4 - Violin 1
4 - Violin 2
3 - Viola
2 - Violoncello
2 - Contrabass

Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard;
Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows;
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape;
Give me fresh corn and wheat--
Give me serene-moving animals, teaching content;
Give me nights perfectly quiet, and I looking up at the stars;
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturb’d;
Give me a perfect child--
Give me, away, aside from the noise of the world, a rural, domestic life;
Give me to warble spontaneous songs, reliev’d, recluse by myself, for my own ears only;
Give me solitude—give me Nature--
Give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!

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