Requiem for Walter (and other mariners) - Geoff Allan

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"Requiem for Walter is dedicated to my father, Walter Lightle Allan, and to Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh). My father died when I was only 8 years old (he was 35) and I wanted to commemorate his short life in this music. Three of the movements are composed to Raleigh texts. The Psalm settings are all texts that mention the sea, as my father was a young merchant seaman in WW2. Raleigh's voyages are well known and I live near Sherborne and sang in the Abbey choir for 32 years. Raleigh built Sherborne New Castle and will have known the Abbey well. The movements alternate between the Latin of the Requiem Mass and the English of the Psalms and Raleigh texts. Scoring is for SATB choir (doubled in movement “2. Psalm 130, 107”), Soprano and Baritone solos. Orchestration 2fl, 2ob, 2cl, 2bn ,2hn , timp, tamtam str Requiem for Walter opens and closes with settings of some of the Nunc Dimittis, lines 2,3 being repeated. Orchestral parts may be found on imslp.org, link below"

◈ Genre → Requiems ¶ Language → English, Latin

Instruments Orchestra

Pages 276

CPDL # 75324

Editor Geoff Allan

Posted 2023-09-11

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

'''Introit Nunc Dimittis (Solo Baritone)''' Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared: before the face of all people; ---- '''1. Requiem Aeternam (Chorus)''' Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiem aeternam dona defunctis, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine Et lux perpetua eis. ''(Grant them eternal rest, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. ''Eternal rest give unto the dead, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. ''Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord And let perpetual shine on them.) ---- '''2. Psalm 130 De Profundis (Solo Bar. And TTBB chorus)''' Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD; Lord, hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch; I say, before the morning watch. '''Psalm 107 Confitemini Domino(Sop. and Bar. Solos and SSAATTBB Chorus''' They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which lifteth up the waves thereof. So when thy cry unto the Lord in their trouble : he delivereth them out of their distress. For he maketh the storm to cease : so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. ---- '''3 .Lacrimosa (Chorus)''' Lacrimosa dies illa, Qua resurget ex favilla. Judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce, Deus: Pie Jesu Domine: Dona eis requiem. Amen. ''(That sorrowful day, on which will rise from the ashes guilty man, to be judged. Spare us by your mercy, Lord, all pitying, '' Jesus blest, Grant them Thine eternal rest. Amen.) ---- '''4. Psalm 77 Voce mea ad Dominum (Solo Sop.)''' The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afraid: the