Songs for the People
for TTBB Choir with Piano and Cello
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Songs for the People
for TTBB Choir with Piano and Cello
P E R F O R M A N C E N O T E S :
The moment of pause indicated by the caesura in measure 82 is meant to symbolize a moment of reflection. The conductor may take liberties with the length of this pause.
Approximate duration: 5 Minutes
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Songs for the People
Let me make the songs for the people, Songs for the old and young; Songs to stir like a battle-cry Wherever they are sung.
Not for the clashing of sabres, For carnage nor for strife; But songs to thrill the hearts of men With more abundant life.
Let me make the songs for the weary, Amid life's fever and fret, Till hearts shall relax their tension, And careworn brows forget.
Let me sing for little children, Before their footsteps stray, Sweet anthems of love and duty, To float o'er life's highway.
I would sing for the poor and aged, When shadows dim their sight; Of the bright and restful mansions, Where there shall be no night.
Our world, so worn and weary, Needs music, pure and strong, To hush the jangle and discords Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.
Music to soothe all its sorrow, Till war and crime shall cease; And the hearts of men grown tender Girdle the world with peace.
-Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)Sammy Strent (b. 2002) For TTBB Choir
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43 Pno.
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87 Pno. C. B. Br. T2. T1.
peace.