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The Great Deep
by Frank A. Wallace
Eight songs on life's final journey, set to famous poems, op. 51, for high voice and 10-string guitar
For: tenor [high voice] and guitar
duration: 17:00
24 pages
world premiere: January 30, 2009; Long Beach Guitar Society
Available as PDF download for $10 at Lulu.com
Eight moving songs pondering life's greatest mystery, for high voice with lush accompaniments on 10-string guitar. Well-known poems by Turner, Donne, Pope, Shelley, Rossetti, Shakespeare, and Tennyson. The Great Deep was written in November of 2008. Wallace dedicated this song cycle to the parents of his wife and himself as three of them move well into their 90's. The poems reflect on the transition from this life to the mysterious beyond.
 View Sample Music, includes one complete song.
The songs are:
1. The glory that we knew
Walter James Turner
2. For whom the bell tolls
John Donne
3. Vital spark of heavenly flame
Alexander Pope
4. Music, when soft voices die
Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. When I am dead, my dearest
Christina Georgina Rossetti
7. Our revels now are ended
William Shakespeare
8. Rain, rain, and sun!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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