Asleep Choral Edition - Crawford, James

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"This choral arrangement is based upon the original solo song and uses the text of the poem by Wilfred Owen."

◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range C2 – A5

♩ Tempo largo (45)

◷ Duration ~3 min 33 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 40

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 62714

Editor James Crawford

Posted 2021-02-07

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

B3 – A5

Alto

A3 – E5

Tenor

E-3 – A4

Bass

C2 – D4

Piano (rehearsal only)

C2 – A4

¶Lyrics / Text

ASLEEP - Wilfred Owen Under his helmet, up against his pack, After so many days of work and waking, Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back. There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping, Death took him by the heart. There heaved a quaking Of the aborted life within him leaping, Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack. And soon the slow, stray blood came creeping From the intruding lead, like ants on track. Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars, High-pillowed on calm pillows of God's making, Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead, And these winds' scimitars, - Or whether yet his thin and sodden head Confuses more and more with low mould, His hair being one with the grey grass Of finished fields, and wire-scrags rusty-old, Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass! He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold, Than we who wake, and waking say Alas!