When in Disgrace - Chapman, Mark

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"A setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 (originally for men's choir TTBB), which alternates between 5/4, for passages expressing the poet's self-doubt, and 6/4 for the more optimistic parts, with corresponding changes in tonality."

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 5/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range E2 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 53

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 46140

Editor Mark Chapman

Posted 2017-08-31

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

G#4 – A5

Alto

D4 – C#5

Tenor

F#3 – E5

Bass

E2 – F5

rehearsal only)

E2 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone be-weep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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