Her name upon the strand - David Protheroe

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"Sonnet 75 from Amoretti by Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, set for unaccompanied choir."

◈ Genre → Anthems

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATBB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range E2 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 45

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 5

CPDL # 62674

Editor David Protheroe

Posted 2021-02-04

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

D4 – A5

ALTO

G3 – C#5

TENOR

E3 – G4

BASS 1 & 2

E2 – C#4

Piano (practice only)

E2 – G4

¶Lyrics / Text

One day I wrote her name upon the strand; But came the waves, and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, quoth I, let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where, when as death shall all the world subdue Our love shall live, and later life renew.