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SEA-151-00 - Conductor’s Score

Sing Me Awake

Poem by Gregory Orr

SATB, piano, and string quartet OR string orchestra

Elizabeth Alexander

Seafarer Press

This is what was bequeathed us:

This earth the beloved left

And, leaving,

Left to us.

No other world

But this one:

Willows and the river

And the factory

With its black smokestacks.

No other shore, only this bank

On which the living gather.

No meaning but what we find here.

No purpose but what we make.

That, and the beloved’s clear instructions:

Turn me into song; sing me awake.

Gregory Orr

From How Beautiful the Beloved by Gregory Orr. Copyright © 2009 by Gregory Orr.

Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All rights reserved.

About the “beloved”Reprinted from Poet Gregory Orr:

Poetry Is ‘Concentrated Testimony’ of Being HumanPBS NewsHour, September 30, 2013 [Permission to reprint pending]

Poet Gregory Orr rhapsodizes on a theme he has explored for nearly a decade: the “beloved,” the things we

love.

Of course, what we love can change over time, he says. “It can make you crazy by...shifting from one thing to

another and yet, of course, that’s also dazzling,” he told the PBS NewsHour...

The “beloved” can be any object of affection: a person, a place, a pet. And it is within those targets of love —

and our relationships to them — that Orr finds meaning for his life. “Without any sense [of] the beloved, it

seems to me the world goes dead, or the world goes just to self, which is even worse,” Orr said.

The original inspiration was a phrase that sprung from his imagination: “the book that is the resurrection of

the body of the beloved, which is the world.” Orr envisioned a collection of all the poems and songs ever

written in the history of human existence. The invisible anthology’s purpose was to serve as human testimony

about “what it is like to be alive.”

The author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir,

Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely anthologized and translated

into at least 10 languages.

When Orr was 12, he accidentally killed his brother in a hunting accident, an event his family was never able to

talk about. His mother died soon thereafter, and Orr found in poetry the transformative power of language. His

near-death experience as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil

rights movement, in which he was jailed and severely beaten, contributes to the urgency with which his poems

seek transformation. In an NPR story on his craft, Orr states, “I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the

emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.”

Orr has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar and a Rockefeller Fellow at the

Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence, and he received the Award in Literature from the American

Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. City of Salt (1995) was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award for

Poetry. He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA program in writing in 1975, and

served from 1978 to 2003 as poetry editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Cover art:

“Swallow and Willows”

by Ella Sarini, a.k.a. Seisei

www.etsy.com/people/elikosar

Gregory Orr

With awe ( q = 84)

Conductor's ScoreCommissioned by St. Paul Vocal Forum, Karin Barrett conductor

SATB, string quartet and piano

Sing Me Awake

© 2019 by Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander

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44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

pp

marcato

pp

marcato

pp

marcato

pizz.

p

pp

legato sempre

una corda poco a poco tre corde

mp pp

mp pp

mp pp

mp mf mp p

mp

poco a poco una corda

pp

Seafarer Press / SEA-151-00

February 03, 2019

7

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9

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11

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Pno

poco a poco tre corde

mf

mf

mf

mf

mf

pp

pp

pp

mp p

poco a poco una corda

p


Sing Me Awake (SATB, string quartet and piano) - Conductor's Score2

February 03, 2019

A14

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17

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This

p

is what was be queathed

This

p


to us:

to us:

mf

mf

mf

mf

poco a poco tre corde

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Sing Me Awake (SATB, string quartet and piano) - Conductor's Score 3

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This

p

is what

This

p

is what

pp

pp

pp

p

p

was be queathed to

was be queathed to



February 03, 2019

26

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28

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us:

mf

us:

mf

arco



February 03, 2019

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33

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This

mf


This

mf


This is what was be queathed

This is what was be queathed

mf

mf

mf

mf

mf

to us.

to us.

to us.

to us.



February 03, 2019

36

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B38

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2

This

p

earth the be

This

p

earth the be

This

p

earth the be

This

p

earth the be

sfz p

sfz p

sfz p

sfz p

f p



February 03, 2019

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44

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lov ed left and, leav ing, left to




us. The be lov ed left



us. The be lov ed



February 03, 2019

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49

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this earth to us, to us.



left this earth to us, to us.

This

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is what

3

was be queathed to

This

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is what

3

was be queathed to

This

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is what was be queathed to

This

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is what was be queathed to

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February 03, 2019

Opal Palmer Adisa, poet • Paul Adams, technological hero • Stephen Alexander, lyric consultant • Ginny Allen,

Agile coach and friend • The great people at American Composers Forum • Yehuda Amichai, poet • A. R.

Ammons, poet • Jennifer Anderson, conductor and composer advocate • Scott Bates, poet • Abbie Betinis,

initiator of collaborative endeavors • Beth Norton, conductor and composer advocate • Dennis Blubaugh, more

than just a music dealer • Michael deVernon Boblett, poet • Edna Busby, my first piano teacher • Ray

Bradbury, writer • Augustin Cadena, translator • Norbert Capek, minister and advocate for religious freedom

Jessica Corbin, conductor and composer advocate • e. e. cummings, poet • Philip Dacey, poet • Catherine

Dalton, composer and scrum partner • Emily Dickinson, poet • Evelyn Dudley, poet and caregiver • Rob

Eller-Isaacs, minister and writer • Emily Ellsworth, conductor and composer advocate • Ralph Waldo Emerson,

philosopher and poet • Louise Erdrich, writer • David Allan Evans, poet • Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer • Richard M.

Fewkes, minister and writer • Pesha Gertler, poet • Jack Gallagher, composer and teacher • Paul Gerike,

proofreader • Jocelyn Hagen and Tim Takach, founders of Graphite Marketplace • Steve Harper, just about

everything • Steve Hawkins, web designer • Edie Hill, composer and friend • Langston Hughes, poet • Margaret

and George Alexander, parents • Mark Humphrey, piano technician • Karel Husa, composer and teacher • David

Ignatow, poet • Kabir, mystic • Linda Kachelmeier, composer and scrum partner • Ruth Palmer, conductor and

composer advocate • Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet • Paul Rardin, conductor and composer advocate • Kalidasa,

poet • Steve Kaul, recording engineer • Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher and poet

Dorothy Knost, piano teacher • Ben Krywosz, artistic director of Nautilus

Music-Theater • Denise Levertov, poet • George Ella Lyon, poet

Jonathan Machen, artist • Ruth MacKenzie, collaborative

vocalist • Dawna Markova, writer • Anne Matlack,

conductor and composer advocate • Nancy Menk,

conductor and composer advocate • Edna St. Vincent

Millay, poet • Jane Ramseyer Miller,

conductor, composer, social activist

• Joe Mish, conductor and composer

advocate • J. David Moore, composer

and friend • Lilian Moore, poet

Gerald Rich, poet • Carl Sandburg, poet

Jason Shelton, conductor, composer and

friend • King Sigismund III, religious

reformer • Ann Silsbee, composer, poet and

friend • Simon Alexander-Adams, sounding

board, fellow creative, and awesome son

Steven Stucky, composer and teacher

Rabindranath Tagore, poet • Sister Peronne

Marie Thibert, teacher and writer • Oliver

Alexander-Adams, unconventional thinker and

light of my life • Howard Thurman, civil rights

leader and writer • Everyone whose work supports

the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music

Ministries • Charles Varney, high school choral director

Ana Vonhuben, illustrator and graphic designer • Nancy White, poet

John Greenleaf Whittier, poet • Theodore Chickering Williams, poet • Daniel Winter, pianist and

teacher • Nancy Wood, poet • Yehudi Wyner, composer and teacher

A lot of hard work and creativity went into bringing this music to you...

...and some of it was even mine.

This page has been intentionally omitted. (You know why.) A complete perusal score may be

purchased through any music store or dealer.

www.seafarerpress.comThe Music of Elizabeth Alexander

Opal Palmer Adisa, poet Margaret & George Alexander, parents Yehuda Amichai, poet Bjorn Arneson, generousweb designer Scott Bates, poet Abbie Betinis, composer/colleague Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer MichaeldeVernon Boblett, poet Ray Bradbury, writer Norbert Capek, visionary e. e. cummings, poet Philip Dacey,poet Emily Dickinson, poet Evelyn Dudley, poet Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer Richard M. Fewkes, writer Pesha Gertler, poet Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer Jack Gallagher,composer/teacher Paul Gerike, proofreader Steve Harper, technical advisor Steve Hawkins, generous webdesigner Edie Hill, composer/colleague Langston Hughes, poet Mark Humphrey, piano technician Karel Husa,composer/teacher Kalidasa, poet Garrison Keillor, storyteller Denise Levertov, poet George Ella Lyon, poet Jonathan Machen, artist Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet J. David Moore, composer/colleague Joan WolfPrefontaine, poet Gerald Rich, poet Carl Sandburg, poet King Sigismund III, religious reformer StevenStucky, composer/teacher Rabindranath Tagore, poet Howard Thurman, civil rights leader/writer JohnGreenleaf Whittier, poet Theodore Chickering Williams, poet Daniel Winter, pianist/teacher Nancy Wood,poet Yehudi Wyner, composer/teacher Paul Adams, technical advisor Opal Palmer Adisa, poet Margaret &George Alexander, parents Yehuda Amichai, poet Bjorn Arneson, generous web designer Scott Bates, poet Abbie Betinis, composer/colleague Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer Michael deVernon Boblett, poet RayBradbury, writer Norbert Capek, visionary e. e. cummings, poet Philip Dacey, poet Emily Dickinson, poet Evelyn Dudley, poet Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer Richard M. Fewkes, writer Pesha Gertler, poet Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer Jack Gallagher, composer/teacher Paul Gerike,proofreader Steve Harper, technical advisor Steve Hawkins, generous web designer Edie Hill,composer/colleague Langston Hughes, poet Mark Humphrey, piano technician Karel Husa, composer/teacher Kalidasa, poet Garrison Keillor, storyteller Denise Levertov, poet George Ella Lyon, poet Jonathan Machen,artist Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet J. David Moore, composer/colleague Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet GeraldRich, poet Carl Sandburg, poet King Sigismund III, religious reformer Steven Stucky, composer/teacher Rabindranath Tagore, poet Howard Thurman, civil rights leader/writer John Greenleaf Whittier, poet Theodore Chickering Williams, poet Daniel Winter, pianist/teacher Nancy Wood, poet Yehudi Wyner,composer/teacher Paul Adams, technical advisor Opal Palmer Adisa, poet Margaret & George Alexander, parents Yehuda Amichai, poet Bjorn Arneson, generous web designer Scott Bates, poet Abbie Betinis,composer/colleague Dennis Blubaugh, music dealer Michael deVernon Boblett, poet Ray Bradbury, writer Norbert Capek, visionary e. e. cummings, poet Philip Dacey, poet Emily Dickinson, poet Evelyn Dudley, poet Rob Eller-Isaacs, minister/writer Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer Richard M. Fewkes, writer Pesha Gertler, poet Richard S. Gilbert, minister/writer Jack Gallagher, composer/teacher Paul Gerike, proofreader Steve Harper,technical advisor Steve Hawkins, generous web designer Edie Hill, composer/colleague Langston Hughes, poet Mark Humphrey, piano technician Karel Husa, composer/teacher Kalidasa, poet Garrison Keillor, storyteller Denise Levertov, poet George Ella Lyon, poet Jonathan Machen, artist Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet J. David Moore, composer/colleague Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet Gerald Rich, poet Carl Sandburg, poet King


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C59

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No

mp

oth er

3

world but this one:

No

mp

oth er

3

world but this one:

mp subito

mp subito

mp subito

mp subito

mp subito



February 03, 2019

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No oth er

3

world, No oth er world but

No oth er

3


No

mp

oth er

3


No

mp

oth er

3


3

3

this one

this one, but this one:

this, but this one: Wil lows and the

3

this one, but this one: Wil lows and the

3

p

p

p

3

p

p



February 03, 2019

68

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Pno

71

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riv er and

3

the fac to ry with its smoke stacks.

riv er and

3

the fac to ry with its smoke stacks.

3

No oth er world but this one: Wil lows and the riv er and the

3 3

No oth er world but this one: Wil lows and the riv er and the

3 3



February 03, 2019

74

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Pno

D76

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B

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smoke stacks black. No

mf

oth er

3

smoke stacks black.

No

mf

oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

No

mf

oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

No

mf

oth er

3

shore, no oth er

3

mf

mf

mf

mf

mf



February 03, 2019

79

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Vln I

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Pno

81

S

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B

Vln I

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Pno

shore,

shore,

shore, On ly this

3

shore, On ly this

3

On which the liv ing

On which the liv ing

bank on which the liv ing gath er, On which the liv ing

bank on which the liv ing gath er, On which the liv ing



February 03, 2019

84

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Vln I

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Pno

87

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Pno

gath er This is what

3

was be


3

was be


3

was be


3

was be

queathed to us:

queathed to us:

queathed to us:

queathed to us:



February 03, 2019

E90

S

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T

B

Vln I

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Vla

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Pno

93

S

A

T

B

Vln I

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Vla

Vc

Pno

No

mp

oth er

3

mean ing but what we

3

find here.

No

mp

oth er

3

mean ing but what we

3

find here.

niente

niente

mp

mp

mp

What

mp

we find here,

What

mp

we find here,

No oth er

3

pur pose but what we

3

No oth er

3

pur pose but what we

3

mp

mp



February 03, 2019

96

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B

Vln I

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Pno

99

S

A

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B

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Vla

Vc

Pno

What we make here.

What we make here. No mean ing but what we

make, what we make, what we make.

make, what we make, what we make.

No mean ing but what we find, but what we make.

find here, no pur pose but what we make.

No pur pose but what we make.

No pur pose but what we make.



February 03, 2019

102

S

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B

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104

S

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32

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

That, and the be lov

mf

ed’s clear in


mf

ed’s clear in


mf

ed’s clear in


mf

ed’s clear in

mf

mf

mf

mf

mf

struc tions, and the be

3

lov ed’s clear in


3

lov ed’s clear in


3

lov ed’s clear in


3

lov ed’s clear in



February 03, 2019

Opal Palmer Adisa, poet • Paul Adams, technological hero • Stephen Alexander, lyric consultant • Ginny Allen,

Agile coach and friend • The great people at American Composers Forum • Yehuda Amichai, poet • A. R.

Ammons, poet • Jennifer Anderson, conductor and composer advocate • Scott Bates, poet • Abbie Betinis,

initiator of collaborative endeavors • Beth Norton, conductor and composer advocate • Dennis Blubaugh, more

than just a music dealer • Michael deVernon Boblett, poet • Edna Busby, my first piano teacher • Ray

Bradbury, writer • Augustin Cadena, translator • Norbert Capek, minister and advocate for religious freedom

Jessica Corbin, conductor and composer advocate • e. e. cummings, poet • Philip Dacey, poet • Catherine

Dalton, composer and scrum partner • Emily Dickinson, poet • Evelyn Dudley, poet and caregiver • Rob

Eller-Isaacs, minister and writer • Emily Ellsworth, conductor and composer advocate • Ralph Waldo Emerson,

philosopher and poet • Louise Erdrich, writer • David Allan Evans, poet • Sophia Lyon Fahs, writer • Richard M.

Fewkes, minister and writer • Pesha Gertler, poet • Jack Gallagher, composer and teacher • Paul Gerike,

proofreader • Jocelyn Hagen and Tim Takach, founders of Graphite Marketplace • Steve Harper, just about

everything • Steve Hawkins, web designer • Edie Hill, composer and friend • Langston Hughes, poet • Margaret

and George Alexander, parents • Mark Humphrey, piano technician • Karel Husa, composer and teacher • David

Ignatow, poet • Kabir, mystic • Linda Kachelmeier, composer and scrum partner • Ruth Palmer, conductor and

composer advocate • Joan Wolf Prefontaine, poet • Paul Rardin, conductor and composer advocate • Kalidasa,

poet • Steve Kaul, recording engineer • Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher and poet

Dorothy Knost, piano teacher • Ben Krywosz, artistic director of Nautilus

Music-Theater • Denise Levertov, poet • George Ella Lyon, poet

Jonathan Machen, artist • Ruth MacKenzie, collaborative

vocalist • Dawna Markova, writer • Anne Matlack,

conductor and composer advocate • Nancy Menk,

conductor and composer advocate • Edna St. Vincent

Millay, poet • Jane Ramseyer Miller,

conductor, composer, social activist

• Joe Mish, conductor and composer

advocate • J. David Moore, composer

and friend • Lilian Moore, poet

Gerald Rich, poet • Carl Sandburg, poet

Jason Shelton, conductor, composer and

friend • King Sigismund III, religious

reformer • Ann Silsbee, composer, poet and

friend • Simon Alexander-Adams, sounding

board, fellow creative, and awesome son

Steven Stucky, composer and teacher

Rabindranath Tagore, poet • Sister Peronne

Marie Thibert, teacher and writer • Oliver

Alexander-Adams, unconventional thinker and

light of my life • Howard Thurman, civil rights

leader and writer • Everyone whose work supports

the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music

Ministries • Charles Varney, high school choral director

Ana Vonhuben, illustrator and graphic designer • Nancy White, poet

John Greenleaf Whittier, poet • Theodore Chickering Williams, poet • Daniel Winter, pianist and

teacher • Nancy Wood, poet • Yehudi Wyner, composer and teacher

A lot of hard work and creativity went into bringing this music to you...

...and some of it was even mine.

This page has been intentionally omitted. (You know why.) A complete perusal score may be

purchased through any music store or dealer.

www.seafarerpress.comThe Music of Elizabeth Alexander



F110

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112

S

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T

B

Vln I

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Vla

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Pno

Turn

f

me in to song,

Turn

f

me in to song, in to

Turn

f


Turn

f


f

f

f

f

f

Sing me a

3

wake.

song. Sing me a

3

wake.

song. Sing me a

3

wake.

song. Sing me a

3

wake.



February 03, 2019

114

S

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B

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc

Pno

116

S

A

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Vln I

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Pno

Turn me in to song,

Turn me in to song,

Oh, turn me in to

Oh, turn me in to

Sing me a

3

wake. Sing me a

3

Sing me a

3

wake. Sing me a

3

song. Sing me a

3

wake.

song. Sing me a

3

wake.



February 03, 2019

118

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B

Vln I

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Pno

120

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wake, sing me a

3

wake, Sing me a

3

wake, sing me a

3

Sing me a

3

Sing me a

3

wake, Sing

mp (hauntingly, like an echo)

me a

wake, Sing


me a

wake,

wake,



February 03, 2019

122

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B

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Pno

124

S

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B

Vln I

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Pno

wake.

wake.

Sing


me a

Sing


me a

mp

mp

mp

mp

mp

Sing me a

Sing me a

wake.

wake.



February 03, 2019

126

S

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B

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc

Pno

128

S

A

T

B

Vln I

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Pno

wake.

wake.

Sing me a

Sing me a

Sing

p

me a

Sing

p

me a

wake. Sing

p

me a

wake. Sing

p

me a



February 03, 2019

G130

S

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B

Vln I

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Pno

133

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc

Pno

wake.

wake.

wake.

wake.

pp

pp

pp

pp

p

mp pp

mp pp

mp pp

mp pp



February 03, 2019

136

Vln I

Vln II

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Pno

139

Vln I

Vln II

Vla

Vc

Pno

unobtrusive bow changes

niente


niente


niente

niente



February 03, 2019

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