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Now, Op.11
Classical/Vocal music • 2013 • Lyricist: Robert Browning
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Instrumentation |
Contralto, Tenor |
Scored for |
Soloists, Duo |
Type of score |
Score for two performers |
Key |
F major |
Publisher |
Jonathan Thomas |
Language |
English |
Difficulty |
Advanced |
Duration |
5'20 |
Renaissance style a capella vocal for Alto and Tenor.
Now
Out of your whole life give but one moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, – so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present, – condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection’s endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense –
Merged in a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you beneath me, above me –
Me – sure that despite of time future, time past, –
This tick of our life-time’s one moment you love me!
How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet –
The moment eternal – just that and no more –
When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!
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