Into the twilight - Bird, Peter

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"The poem and the music go through mood swings as Yeats contrasts his conflicted modern life with the consolation he finds in the lore and landscape of ancient Ireland."

◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 6/8

♬ Voicing → SATB|add=with Soprano solo

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range F#2 – F#6

♩ Tempo andante (72)

◷ Duration ~3 min 33 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 115

Texture Homophonic

Parts 5

Instruments Flute and violin (or equivalent organ stops)

Pages 7

CPDL # 10048

Editor Peter Bird

Posted 2005-11-05

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

D4 – G5

ALTO

A3 – D5

MEN

F#2 – G4

Flute

C4 – F#6

Violin

G3 – A5

¶Lyrics / Text

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the gray twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.