David Solomons

singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer

To Idleness for clarinet and guitar

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Composer
David W Solomons
Publisher
David W Solomons
Genre
Classical / Instrumental
Instrumentation
Clarinet, Classical guitar
Scored for
Duo
Type of score
Full score, Parts
Duration
4'20"
Difficulty
Medium
Year of composition
2015

Description
Instrumental duo based on my setting of Dave Dunning's poem To Idleness.
The pdf file contains score and parts.
The sound sample is an electronic preview.

These are the words of the original poem:

When autumn harvests
are full grown
and luscious fruits
to me are shown,
piled plump and rich
till stomachs groan

when autumn harvests
are full grown

ripe juices puddle
on the tongue,
and winter I forget
in gurgling song.


once when the fresh
new spring was here
I lavished though
to sow the year
oh dreaming seasons
never interfere
with worldly bounty,
scorned the prudent song
and prayed March winds
to buffet time along


Soon in the heat
of summer haze
I floundered on
through deep green maize,
where heavy herds
lowed as they grazed,
I saw that I would
reap in thought
among the rich;
and time moved on
with busy song,
now in the heat of summer

Now winter creeps
between the sashes
and rain upon
the window lashes
while wild wind moans
round rafters dashes
and I to annual
poverty belong,
yet know that spring
flows richly on in song


When autumn harvests
are full grown
and luscious fruits
to me are shown,
piled plump and rich
till stomachs groan

when autumn harvests
are full grown

ripe juices puddle
on the tongue,
and winter I forget
in gurgling song.

Upload date
01 Nov 2015

Price

Sheet music file
8.00 USD
PDF, 333.4 Kb (9 p.)

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