Bright Star (score & parts)
Tenor Voice - Sheet Music

Voice and Percussion Duet (Tenor (or Soprano) Voice, 1 Percussionist:, Marimba (5-octave), Vibraphone (3-octave), Glockenspiel) - medium difficult

SKU: CN.18310

Composed by Ricardo Souza. Score & parts. Duration 6:30. Published by C. Alan Publications (CN.18310).

Using text from a sonnet by John Keats, Souza weaves together unique sonic textures by requiring the percussionist to play simultaneously on marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel.

Bright Star uses text from a sonnet by John Keats: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow-d upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon to death. The percussionist is required to play simultaneously on marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel.