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The Wanderer and His Shadow
Songs for Voice and Cello from Nietzsches The Gay Science
Lawrence Kramer
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The Wanderer and his Shadow
Songs for Voice and Cello from Nietzsches The Gay Science
Translated/adapted/condensed from Book IV: Sanctus Januarius
Book One
1. For the New Year. Today we allow ourselves to express our dearest wish and thought,
so I will, too: will tell the first thought to cross my heart this year. I want more and moreto learn to see the beauty of necessity; then I will be one of those who make things
beautiful. ( 276)
2. We should not count ourselves too wise when at times we are so surprised by the
wonderful harmony played on our instrumenta harmony too good for us to take the
credit. Yes, now and then someone plays with us: chance guides our hand, and the wisest
providence could not imagine a more beautiful music. (277)
3. Living amid this jumble of small lanes, needs, and voices gives me a melancholy
happiness. It is like the last moments before a ship departs: people have more to say thanever, the hour is late, and the sea and its desolate silence patiently wait behind all the
noise. (278)
4. Delight in Blindness. My thoughts, said the wanderer to his shadow, should show
me where I am, not where Im going. I love not knowing the future; I dont want to die
of impatience or taste promised things before their time. (287)
5. History affords no examples. One day this might happen; not even the dice throws ofthe luckiest chance could fix the conditions for its birth today. What has thus far entered
our souls only now and again, the exception at which we shudder, one day may be the
custom of future souls: perpetual motion between the high and low, the feeling of height
and depth, a constant ascent as on a flight of stairs yet a sense of reposing on clouds.(288)
6. We wish we could rise up on airy dust motes like beams of light, not away from thesun but towards it. But this we cannot do. So instead let us do the only thing we can: to
bring the light to earth, to be the light of the earth. For this we have our wings and our
speed and our discipline; for this we are even terrible like fire. (293)
7. Sigh. I caught this insight in passing and quickly seized the poor words close at hand
to pin it down and keep it from flying off. And now it flutters and flaps in these stalewords and I scarcely know how catching this bird could have made me happy. (298)
8. How can we make things beautiful, delightful, and desirable for ourselves when they
are not? And I fear that in themselves they never are. (299)
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9. Did Prometheus first have to fantasize he had stolen the light and then pay the price
before he could learn he himself had created the light by wanting it for his own? Themen, the godmere clay in his hands, images of the maker: no less so than the fantasy,
the theft, the Caucasus, the vulture--the entire tragic Promethiadof all seekers after
knowledge? (300)
10. We alone, only we, have created the world that concerns humankind. But we lack the
knowledge of precisely this, and when at times we catch it for an instant, only an instant,
in that instant we forget it again. (301)
11. How much there is that says to me, tarry awhile! Armidas gardens beckon me
everywhere; everywhere I must tear my heart away and find new bitterness. I mustalways lift my feet, however sore; and because I must go on I look back furious at the
beauties that could not hold me, because they could not hold me. (309)
12. How greedily this wave comes in, as if it were looking for something! And now
again, slower but white with excitement still. Is it disappointed? Has it found what itwas looking for? --But another wave is already moving in, more greedy and more savage
still, with seeming secrets in its soul and the lust for treasure. So live the waves, and solive we who willmore I will not say. (310)
13. Intermezzo (for cello alone)
Book Two
14. Are you angry with me, waves? Afraid Ill betray your secret? Well, go ahead, beangry; arch your green dangerous bodies as high as you can, blot out the sun with green
twilight and green lightning! Go ahead: dive and pour your emeralds into the depths and
cover them with your infinite mane of white foam. Everything suits me just as it suits
you. Im so fond of you for everythinghow could I ever betray you? Are we not one,you and I? Your secret and mine, are they not onesecret? (310)
15. Looking Back. Today a few musical chords reminded me of a winter and a houseand a life of great solitudeand the feelings too. I thought I would go on living that way
forever. (317)
16. The evil hour. Every philosopher has surely had an evil hour in which he thought:
What do I matter if they dont accept my badarguments, too? And then flew by some
little bird all full of Schadenfreudeand twittered: What do you matter? What do youmatter? (332)
17. Our good will, our patience, our openness and gentleness find their reward at last in
what is strange: in something strange that little by little sheds its veil and turns out to be anew and indescribable beauty. This is its thanks for our hospitality. (334)
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18. Could one burden oneself with all the past, the oldest and newest, the losses and
hopes, and endure all this, and contain it and compress it all into a single feeling--fromthis would surely come a happiness never yet known: the happiness of a god full of
power and love, of tears and laughter, a happiness that, like the sun at evening, constantly
bequeaths its inexhaustible riches, pouring them into the sea and feeling richest of all,
like the sun, only when even the poorest of fisherman rows with golden oars. (337)
19. The greatest weight. What if some day or night a demon crept into your solitude and
said: This life you live and have lived you will have to live once more and countlesstimes more; and it will bring nothing new, but every pain and every joy and every
thought will return to you in the same order, even I myself and this spider and the
moonlight in the trees. Would you cast your self down and gnash your teeth and cursethe demon who spoke thus? Or have you once known a moment in which you would
answer, You are a god and I have never heard anything more beautiful? (341)
20. Postlude in Verse (for voice alone): Mein Glck (My Happy Lot) from Appendix:
From the Songs of Prince Vogelfrei. The text appears below after that of the Epilogue.
21. Epilogue (from the text named at the end): What is done out of love is always donebeyond good and evil. Jenseits von Gut und Bse.
Postlude Text:
Once more I see the pigeons of San Marco.The square is still;the morning lingers there.
In the soft coolness I send flocks of songsLike swarms of pigeons in the blue aloft
And lure them back,
Yet one more rhyme to dangle from their wings
My happy lot, my happy lot.
You still and blue-lit silken roof of sky,
Afloat, a canopy for the tinted buildingThat Iwhat am I saying?love, fear, envy
Whose soul Id truly drink up if I could!
--And give it back?Hush, no more of that, you glimpse ofwonder
My happy lot, my happy lot.
You jutting tower, with what a lions force
You mount on high here, glorious, free of care!
You send your deep knell clear across the square
[In French would you become laccent aigue?]If I stayed back
Like you, Id know by what silken snare
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My happy lot, my happy lot.
Music, holdoff! First let the shadows darken
And grow into a brown and tender night!
Its too soon for yourtones;the ornaments
Of gold dont glimmer yet in splendid huesof rose.Muchday remains,
Much day for shaping, slinking, murmuring
--My happy lot, my happy lot.
Program Note
Composed between 2006 and 2008, this song cycle explores the possibilities of
dialogue between a singing voice and an instrumental counterpart that sometimes
assents, sometimes dissents, sometimes mocks, sometimes comments, sometimes
reinterprets, and so on, what its alter ego expresses. The standard combination of voiceand piano appeals to me greatly, and Ive composed for it often, but for present purposes
the piano is almost too versatile and multidimensional. What I wanted was a voice ofgreat range and expressivity but with limited abilities to provide its own harmony and
counterpoint. Given that desire, the choice of the cello seemed inevitable. Gyorgy
Kurtags Kafka Fragmentsfor voice and violin provided a model; at the same time, thedifferences in style and feeling between that cycle and this one are obvious, and the
philosophical differenceKafkas infinite irony versus Nietzsches affirmation of
finitudeis just as strong.
The text is a critical hybrid. In choosing what to set, I found that most of thepassages excerpted had to be condensed to be musically effective. Tampering with
Nietzsches German was obviously out of the question. In making the English versions, I
would certainly interpolate a layer of interpretation between the original and the music,
but the simple fact of excerpting and arranging would have done that in any case, evenhad I been literal and even had I set the texts in German.
The result, like the dramatic result of all song cycles, is a fiction. It is fiction that,like all fiction, aims by invention to find a certain truth. The cycle is not a rounded
portrait of Nietzsche as he presents himself in The Gay Scienceany more than Kafka
Fragmentsis an authentic portrait of Kafka. Instead The Wanderer and His Shadowisthe expression of a Nietzschean persona devised partly as an interpretation of Nietzsche
and partly as an adaptation of his voice. The chosen extracts show little of the arrogance
and posturing that a more faithful portrait would have revealed, but they still, I believe,have plenty of bite. The persona they fashion is that of anyone who accepts the
Nietzschean challenge of creating the values by which one lives and judges oneself. This
is the task that Nietzsche famously called the transvaluation of all values and that he
always insisted was profoundly difficult. The persona of these songsthe twinnedpersona of the wanderer and his shadowis, like the creatures of Nietzsches
Prometheus (song 9), including Prometheus himself, an image of the maker.
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The songs of The Wanderer and his Shadoware loosely linked by melodic and
scalar patterns, with occasional quotation and cross reference from one number toanother. Family resemblances abound, fragments of recurrence attuned to Nietzches
conception of eternal recurrencea conception eventually realized (but incompletely) in
song 19. Like the individual songs, the large design of the cycle is dialogical. There are
twenty-one numbers. Just after midpoint, one of the texts is broken up and set by twoseparate but closely related songs (12 and 14) separated by an intermezzo for cello alone.
Near the close, just after song 19 arrives at the destination of eternal recurrence, another
solo number, this time for voice alone, arises to answer the first. The voice and celloreunite for the final song, a postlude
The ideal performance of these songs is of course that of an unabridged traversalof the cycle. But abridged performances are possible if certain conditions are observed:
any selection should begin with no. 1 and end with no. 21. No. 12 may be included by
itself, but if both nos. 12 and 14 are included, they should be separated by no. 13, the
cello intermezzo, and no. 20 for unaccompanied voice should also be included. The
order of the songs, which corresponds with that of Nietzsches text, should be strictlyobserved. A compact version of the whole, which preserves the essentials of its design,
can be performed on programs without enough room for more. This abridgment, underthe title Song Suite from The Wanderer and his Shadow, consists of numbers 1, 2, 3, 6,
9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, and 21.
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arco, ordin.
pizz.
non cresc.
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27 >arcop in stant, on
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3 .
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31
3 j in stant,wp
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J 3 3 3How much there is that says to me,w
q 11. "How Much There Is . . ."ppizz.p
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3
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4 4
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11 J 11
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3
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14 3and taste new bit ter ness.
14 warcoC Stringp
"How Much There Is . . ."
j 3 3 3I must al ways liftmy feet,
. . Jpizz.f p- - -
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17 how e ver sore,
17 j . J3 3
and because I must go won
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I lookback
w- - -
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21 fu ri ous
21 J 3 3
at the beau ties that parcoC Stringp
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25 J . Jbe cause they
25 33
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44
Voice
Cello
3
q76
p
12. "How Greedily This Wave Comes In"
3
jHow
9
p
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6 3gree di ly this
6 3
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wave comes in, ?
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3look ing for 9- -
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11 j .some thing.
11 3
3
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3
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9
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16 J J 3but white with ex
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21 21 11
3Is it dis ap
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3
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- - -
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26 26
3
3
what it was look ing 7
for?
3
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no ther wave .- - -
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32 3is al
32 3. J
rea dy 9
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3
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?38 3
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38 7 still, 3
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crets in its soul, 9- - - -
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44 J and the
44 poco rit. ppoco rit.
p sub. .j
lust for
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3
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a tempo So
3
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50 . Jlive the
50 3waves,
3 6
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56 we who
56 will. 3p
p
3
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3p? 38
3
3 3
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3 3 3 3p > > 3? 50 . . 3 3
3
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5 3 3
rit.
p 3a tempo
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> rit.
Up
2
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Cello
q63f
14. "Are You Angry With Me, Waves?'
3S p
Are you
3
p > 3ang ry with > J
3
-
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5
me,
5 5 6
. 6
5
rit.
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a tempo JA 3 -
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9 fraid I 'll be tray
9 3
your se cret? 3 3
accel.
3
J 3F
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13 j Well, go a
13 J 3 3 3
q76
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3
3
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f
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18 18
J
J
"Are You Angry With Me, Waves?' J your J f
f >green dan
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23 bod ies as
23 ? high 3 3
as you 3 3 J
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3 3
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3 3
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3
f
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30 330
j withgreenj p
twi light psul pont.
jand ordin.
green light 3 3
ning.
j
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39 39
. JGo af j
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. J
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46 3in to the
46 depths, p j
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f
p
. Jco ver - -
2
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51 them with your
51 ..pizz..
in fi nite
..."Are You Angry With Me, Waves?'
mane
..b J 3
of white
rit.
rit.
foam secco (finger without bowing)
- -
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57
.
57
q63p
pizz.
j arco
3
3 ten. 3
Every thingp
p J 3
suits me J3 3
just as it-?
65 j 3suits you;
65 J J3
I'm so
. J
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3
. jyou for
3
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- -
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71 3how could I
71
p
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tray you?rit.
rit.
3Are we not
3
q76one,
3
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3
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77 77 3
> 3
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3
"Are You Angry With Me, Waves?'
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3 3
j 3Your se cret and
3-
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82
mine,
82
3rit. > > >
are they not
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3q63f
f
?
85 85
3
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rit.
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4
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Cello
. J . Jq
. J 15. Looking Back
jTowp w
day,. j . Jp-
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6 Jto
6 . J
day a few 3
mu si cal chordsw J
re. J . Jp
p. j
mind ed me - - - -
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11 of a
11 p J
win ter w .
and a house. j . jp
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15 J a life
15
j
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. jsol i. J
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21 21 . j . j
. j Looking Back
. jand the feel ingsw too..
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26 I
26
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- - -
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30 . Jway for
30 wev
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w- - - - - -
2
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? 44Voice
Cello
3Ev ery phi lo so
Pq = 100x notehead = play behind bridge on indicated string
pher has sure ly had an e vil16. The Evil Hour
Jhour in
3
3Ppizz.
- - - - - -
? ~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
4 Jwhich he thought, he
4 3
3 3
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3 3thought: "What do I mat ter,
3
3
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what do I mat ter . J arco- -
B ~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
7 . 3if they do
7 . J
not ac cept my bad . > 3ar gu ments too?"
3
- - -
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10 J And then flew
10 J3 3 3
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. j by some lit tle bird 3 3 3
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13 . JScha
13
J J Jpizz.
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3
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16 Jand
16 . Jspoken:
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33
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19 3 3"What do you mat ter?"
19 3
33
3
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21 3 3What do you mat ter?" ter?"
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3 3
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23 U3What do you mat
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2
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Cello
q
Our good will, 17. Our Good Will . . . J
our pa tience, 3
j J 3our o pen ness pp
- -
?
5 3and gen tle ness
5
3
find their re ward at
3last in what is - - -
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10 .strange:
10
j in some thing
3
strange
J 3that lit tle by lit tle
3
- - -
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15 .sheds
15 . 3
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4
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4
?
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20 .be
20 >4 . . .
sul tasto
.
J a new
4 B
Our Good Will . . .
ordin.
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26 .26
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31 31
4p J 3
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for our 3
hos pi ta li ty. - - - -
?
36 .36 3
rit.
rit.
.
3
.a tempo
a tempo
.
2
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44
Voice
Cello
q72p
18. "Could One Burden Oneself . . ."
3 3Could one bur den one p j
self with . J
all the past, - -?
6 Jthe
6 P J
old est, the P J
new est, the F
F J
los ses and . . j>
hopes, and .- - -
?
11 en dure
11 ff
all this,
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3and con tain it
pp
- -
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15 . 3 3and com press it all
15 3
in to a F
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sin gle 3 3
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feel ing, 3
3
3
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- - - - - - -
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19 J from this would
19 3
3 3
3
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3 3 3 3
whap p sub.
p sub.sul G
- - - - - - - -
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22 3pi ness ne ver yet
22 wknown:
- - - -
?
25 J 3 3the hap pi ness of a
25 J . J .PP
j Jgod full of J . j .
pow er andJ . J .
wlove,J . J .FF
- - -
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29 j J3of tears and
29 .. J . j
sotto voce J
laugh ter, a.. J . J 3 3
hap pi ness that like the
. J .. J . Jsun at.. J
.. Jff
- - -
?
33 eve ning
33
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P j .
con stant ly be queaths its - - - - - - - -?
35 . 3in ex haust i ble
35 B rich es, ff
- - - - - - - - - -
2
"Could One Burden Oneself . . ."
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37 wpour
37 3 3 3 3
3 3ing them in to the 3
33
3
wsea 3
3
33
PP
- - - - - - - - -
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40 J and feel ing
40 3 33 3
. rich est of
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44 wsun,
44 J 3
like the sun,
. J
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48 J 48 .
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p j J J3
on ly, on ly 3
when the poor est of fish er men - - - - -?
51 rows
51 3
with gold w
. J en oars.
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wU U- - - - -
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"Could One Burden Oneself. . ."
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Cello
w
qpizz.
f > . J
What if some day or
19. The Heaviest Weight.p
pmute on
J jnight a J
q66 Parco
?44
44
44
4 3de mon crept in to your
4 . j
sol i tude j
and said: > - - -
?44
44
8 j . JThis life you live and
8
have lived
you will have to
live once ?
44
44
44
12 .more
12 O J
and count less times w
more; j
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44
44
16 no thing new,
16 j
but ev ery J
The Heaviest Weight.
mute off
. J pain and ev ery
. J joy and ev ery >
- - - -
?
44
44
44
20 . . thought
20 >
f
f J
will re > turn to .you
p
pj
in the same ?44
44
25 or der,
25
e ven I. P j
my self and
3
this spi der and therit.
rit.
- - -
2
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29 moon light in
29 f p j
the trees."
a tempo
a tempo
The Heaviest Weight.
q92 j 3 3P
-
?
33 3Would you cast your self
33 3P .. J
down and
3 . jgnash your
3FF
?
36 . . jteeth and
36 > > wcurse
> > ff
. . jthe
>
~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
39 3de mon who spoke
39 pp
thus? >
j Or have you.
> . jonce known a b
3
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43 mo ment in
43
which you would ans
. J3The Heaviest Weight. w
wer,
. ff
J .
- -
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47 w"You
47
are a
8 a piacere
va wgod
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51 j and I,
51 3
rit. prit.
pj j
I have
. . Jq G string
. . jne ver
. . J O 3
heard a ny
. OG string- - -
?
55 . thing more
55 O O O O3
. . jbeau tiO O J O
3
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wOw
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4 4Voice 3
I see once more the
p 20. Postlude in Verseq92 pi geons of San Mar co. JThe square is- - 4 45 Jstill, the
morn ing ling ers
3there. In the
j 3soft cool ness- - - 4 4 49
I send flocks of
Jsongs like
p J 3 3swarms of pi geons in the
3blue a loft- - - 413 j
and lure them
rit. jback, yet
a tempo one more rhyme to dan gle
J 3from their wings:- - - - 4 417 j j
my hap py lot.
rit. j my hap py lot.
jYou
Pa tempo J 3still and blue lit silk en- - - - - 4 4 421 . J
roof of sky,
j Ja float, a
3ca no py for the tint ed build ing
j that I- - - - - - 4 425 J 3
what am I say ing?
F love,
P fear,
j jen vy, whose
p- - - - - -
429 j 3 3soul I'd tru ly drink up if I
P .could!
p J j And give it
rit. J back?-
4 433 J j Hush, no more of
a tempo J that, you glimpse of
J won der:- - - -
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4 436 j j my hap py lot,
rit. j my hap py lot.
jYou
a tempoF jut ting tower,- - - -
440 3
with what a li on's
f Jforce you mount on high here, J splen did,P
- -
4 4 444 free of care!
p j You send your
j 3deep knell clear a cross the
.square.-
4 4 4 448 j If I stayed back,
rit.
J Jlike you, I'da tempo 3
know by what sil ken
jsnare: my- - 452 j
hap py lot,
rit. j my hap py lot.
a tempo . 3Mu sic, hold off!- - - 456
3
First let the sha dows dark en
and grow in to a
brown and ten der
rit.
- - - - 4 459 j night. It's too soon
a tempo j 3for your tones; the
3
or na ments of gold don't glim mer- - - 462 j . jyet in splen did
p j hues of rose.
j Much day re mains,
rit.
- - 4 465 j J much day for mak ing,
a tempo jslink ing,
3mur mur ing:
j my hap py lot,
- - - - -69 j j
my hap py lot,
rit. j Umy hap py lot.
- -
2
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Cello
qpcon sord.
j j What
p j jis done
. ?
5 J . j .out of
5 J
love > .
is
j >
10 al
10 >.
ways >j . 3
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14
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14 > . J
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vil. - - - - -
21. "What Is Done . . ."
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