The Cross - Colla, Daniele

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"This song has been composed to commemorate the 100th years of the end of World War I. Lyrics: An epigraph on the grave of an unknown British soldier, Givenchy 1915."

◈ Genre → Secular

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range G2 – F5

¶ Language → English

Measures 73

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 48167

Editor Daniele Colla

Posted 2017-12-23

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Mezzo-Soprano

D4 – F5

Alto

C4 – D5

Tenor

D3 – F4

Bass-Baritone

G2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

The cross is twined with gossamer, the cross some hand has shaped with care, and by his grave the grasses stir but he is silent sleeping there. The guns speak loud, he hears them not. The night goes by: he does not know. A lone white cross stands on the spot, and tells of one who sleeps below. The brooding night is hushed and still. The crooning breeze draws quiet breath, A star-shell flares upon the hill and lights the lowly house of death. Unknown, a soldier slumbers there while mournful mists come dropping low. But oh! A weary maiden’s prayer and oh! A mother’s tears of woe.