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  NW3013 

 
Wedding song


words by Peter Hill 


set to music by Sheena Phillips

for soprano, alto, tenor and bass chorus



SATB  performance time approx  2m 55s











Composer's note


This is a wedding song with a difference.  The bells have stopped ringing and there's a pause for a slightly more realistic reflection on what lies ahead.  Peter's words are about facing the whole path of a relationship from passion and optimism, through disenchantment and struggle, to, hopefully, new ways of acknowledging each other and living together. 


I haven't marked any dynamics but my own sense of the piece is that it grows in volume and feeling from a quiet and warm start, via a quite strident verse 3 to a really strong verse 4 and then a gentler verse 5.  Give the fermata plenty of time.


A recording by Rudsambee company of singers is available under the title 'Take my hand' on the album citrus and honey  (RUBEECD002) 














 Music

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 Words 





Wedding song 


Take my hand and we'll walk on together

to a young upland meadow where skylarks sing

and green shoots of fescue and friendship grow strong


Take my hand and we'll walk on together

where a warm southern breeze whispers citrus and honey

and the ripe fruit of passion tastes heady and sweet


Take my hand and we'll walk on together

through a black and white city of clockwork routine

where time in a tunnel kaleidoscopes by


Take my hand and we'll walk on together

on a hard rocky shoreline where the east wind bites

and cold grey pain tries to snatch away feeling


Take my hand and we'll walk on together

till flames spring again from a smouldering core

melting the snows of the land that we share


Take my hand...


 Peter Hill












Price


The price of this piece depends on the number of singers in your group. This is a single payment for a licence to make as many copies as you need for your group to rehearse and perform the song as often as you wish.  Copies of the song must not be given, lent or sold to any other group.  








Number of singers in your group

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£5 (approx US$8.00)



















£10 (approx US$16)



















£15 (approx US$24)



















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