Thy Speech is as silence for alto voice, harpsichord and cello is currently unavailable

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Small Ensemble Cello,Harpsichord,Low Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.958420 Composed by Joseph Dillon Ford. 20th Century,Baroque. Score and parts. 16 pages. David Warin Solomons2 #3685089. Published by David Warin Solomons2 (A0.958420). The text on which "Thy Speech Is as Silence" is based was written by the composer for a friend in the late 1980sand published in the "Loves Ancient and Forbidden" section of Selected Poems in 1990. The music, composed in October 2007 for alto (or countertenor) voice with continuo (harpsichord and cello), echoes the historicist style of the poem and recalls English and continental songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.One of two vividly contrasting historicist art songs for solo voicebased on an original Shakespearean Sonnet and poem by the composer.The pdf contains score and partsThe sound sample is an electronic preview using cor anglais for the vocal partThe words areThy speech is as silence, as silence thy speech, For what my ear heareth Doth naught my heart teach But what my heart feareth My ear hath o'er heard. Since thou canst not unsay What thou hast ne'er said, Then mute let my heart be And earless my head, And blind let these holes be Which read so like words. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of popular titles and original compositions from a variety of voices and backgrounds. The length, difficulty, and retail pricing are determined solely by the discretion of the person who arranged or composed it. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).