Lamentation - Chapman, Mark

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"''Lamentation'' was composed to words written by the photographer Eva Schroeder for her exhibition ''Beneath the Bula Smile'', and was performed by the chamber choir ''I Progetti'' in June 2016. Eva requested the music to be relatively simple, harmonically and texturally, and it attempts to evoke the hardships undergone by rural female vendors in Fiji travelling to the markets in Suva to sell their goods."

◈ Genre → Lamentations ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 40574

Editor Mark Chapman

Posted 2016-07-30

License Public Domain

¶Lyrics / Text

Oh hear our lamentation Where oh where is joy to be found The grind of life is taking its toll To our culture we are shackled and bound Where are those moments of beauty For endlessly we strive and strain Reaching longingly for something much better Beyond the suffering and the pain Oh hear our lamentation There is no music in our heart We breathe but in and out each day Life just lived, then we depart.