A certain everlasting polyphony - Nicholas O'Neill

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"For Simon Over and the Parliament Choir. :Version for orchestra also available."

◈ Genre / Form → 4

♯ Key B minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range C0 – E7

¶ Language → English

Measures 252

Texture Homophonic

Parts 7

Instruments Organ

Pages 17

CPDL # 86573

Editor Nicholas O'Neill

Posted 2025-08-29

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

B3 – E7

A#2 – F5

A#2 – F4

C0 – D4

MusicXML Part

E2 – B4

Pedals

E0 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

Nature has finally brought you forth the first true images of the universe. By means of your concords of various voices she has whispered to the human mind how the movements of the heavens are nothing except a certain everlasting polyphony. As the alto is practically supreme in a very narrow range, so the almost innermost planets, the Earth and Venus, have the narrowest intervals of movements. And as the tenor is free, but progresses with moderation, so Mars alone can make the greatest interval, namely a perfect fifth. And as the bass makes harmonic leaps, so Saturn and Jupiter have intervals which are harmonic. And as the soprano is the freest, more than all the rest, and likewise the swiftest, so Mercury can traverse more than an octave in the shortest period. Hence it is no surprise that man should finally have discovered the art of singing the everlastingness of all created time by means of artistic concord of many voices in that sweet sense of delight elicited from this music. Nature has finally brought you forth the first true images of the universe.