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Shadows on the Plain

Religious/Christian • 2014 • Lyricist: Isaac Watts
 
     
 

Shadows on the Plain

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PDF, 328.4 Kb ID: SM-000210250 Upload date: 28 Aug 2014
Instrumentation
Piano, Mixed choir
Scored for
Solo, Accompanying piano
Type of score
Piano-vocal score
Publisher
James Bradfield
Language
English
Difficulty
Medium
Duration
6'25
That true believers are "in this world, but not of this world" is a recurrent theme of the New Testament. In Psalm 39, written a millennium before New Testament times, David foreshadows this theme. He prays for full awareness of the vanishing brevity and frailty of earthly life, and laments the futility of so much of human behavior. Having confronted worldly values, David renounces them and dedicates his existence to God. The text of this anthem (translation of Psalm 39 by Isaac Watts) is powerful, and the church choir will find the singing to be straightforward. Solo piano passages serve to link contrasting textual/musical ideas.
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