Love Was My Lord and King!: 3. Crossing the Bar (SATB Brass Version Full/Choral Score)
by Gwyneth W. Walker
4-Part - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Choir
Organ Accompaniment
Ensembles
4-Part
SATB
Mixed Choir
Genres
21st Century
Composers
Gwyneth W. Walker
Publishers
E.C. Schirmer Publishing
Series
Women Composers and Arrangers
Formats
Vocal Score
Octavo
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
Sacred
SATB choir, organ, optional brass quartet, percussion

SKU: EC.7526

Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 21st Century. Satb brass version full/choral score. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #7526. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.7526).

English. Text: Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Crossing the Bar creates images of the sea, with the "final voyage" leading us out across the water, to see our "Pilot, face to face." The musical setting endeavors to express the growth from peaceful to ecstatic moods, the tolling of the bell, the meeting of the Pilot. "May there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to see."

The poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) is characterized by dark, yet transcendent imagery -- the depths of the ocean, the triumph of the spirit. These poems seem well-suited to musical settings for Men's Chorus. The deep tones. The sonority of male voices (perhaps speaking for the poet) rising in song.

Throughout the varied imagery of this poetry -- the depth of the sea, the dark of the night, the tumult of passion and the acceptance of death -- there speaks one, central message. "Love was my lord and king.".