{"id":4160,"date":"2024-02-12T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?post_type=product&p=4160"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:01:48","slug":"parry-songs-of-farewell-for-brass-septet-pdf-download","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?product=parry-songs-of-farewell-for-brass-septet-pdf-download","title":{"rendered":"Parry – Songs of Farewell for Brass Septet (PDF Download)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For\u00a0Sir Hubert Parry, who had always revered German music and culture, the First World War was deeply depressing; it was, in the words of Herbert Howells, \u2018a scourge that cast a devastating shadow over Parry\u2019s mind and heart.\u2019 He sensed that he was close to death: as he wrote on his 70th birthday, \u2018I have reached the last milestone\u2019, and he did in fact die in 1918. This is the context for his introspective\u00a0Songs of Farewell<\/i>, composed between 1916 and 1918. Parry himself labelled them motets, but only the last of the six songs has a traditional sacred text (Psalm 39); the rest are more personal than strictly devotional. Through the set Parry gradually expands his forces from four voices to eight, and with this expansion comes greater textural variety. This publication features the first four: the opening two movements,\u00a0My soul, there is a<\/i>\u00a0country<\/i>, and\u00a0I know my soul hath power to know all things<\/i>, are both in four parts and almost entirely homophonic. The five-part\u00a0Never weather-beaten sail\u00a0<\/i>starts out in the same vein, but soon gives way to counterpoint. Finally,\u00a0There is<\/i>\u00a0an old belief\u00a0<\/i>is largely polyphonic, with a few notable instances of emphatic homophony, for the text \u2018That creed I fain would keep \/ That hope I\u2019ll ne\u2019er forget\u2019.<\/p>\n

Matthew Knight<\/p>\n

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