Incidental music to Electra (Preview)
by Ralph Vaughan Williams | Orchestra and chorus
by Ralph Vaughan Williams | Orchestra and chorus
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Fl.<br />
#<br />
&<br />
24<br />
a tempo<br />
3<br />
2<br />
4<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
U<br />
Ob.<br />
Cl.<br />
Hn<br />
#<br />
&<br />
# #<br />
& #<br />
&<br />
3<br />
2<br />
3<br />
2<br />
2<br />
3<br />
4<br />
4<br />
4<br />
˙<br />
pp<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
U<br />
U<br />
U<br />
Cym.<br />
ã<br />
3<br />
2<br />
4<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
U<br />
Hp<br />
#<br />
&<br />
? #<br />
3<br />
2<br />
3<br />
2<br />
4<br />
4<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
u<br />
U<br />
u<br />
Soli<br />
#<br />
&<br />
3<br />
2<br />
j<br />
œ. œ ˙ ˙<br />
seas, come home, come<br />
4<br />
w<br />
home!<br />
ELECTRA (spoken)<br />
What boots this cruse that I carry?<br />
O, set free my brow!<br />
For the gathered tears that tarry<br />
Through the day and the dark till now,<br />
Now in the dawn are free,<br />
Father, and flow beneath<br />
The floor of the world, <strong>to</strong> be<br />
As a song in the house of Death:<br />
From the rising up of the day<br />
They guide my heart alway,<br />
The silent tears unshed,<br />
And my body mourns for the dead;<br />
My cheeks bleed silently,<br />
And these bruised temples keep<br />
Their pain, remembering thee<br />
And thy bloody sleep.<br />
Be rent, O hair of mine head!<br />
Chor.<br />
#<br />
&<br />
3<br />
2<br />
4<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
U<br />
Vn I<br />
Vn II<br />
Va<br />
Vc.<br />
D.B.<br />
24<br />
#<br />
&<br />
#<br />
&<br />
B #<br />
? #<br />
? #<br />
a tempo<br />
3<br />
2<br />
3<br />
2<br />
2<br />
3<br />
3<br />
2<br />
2<br />
3<br />
n˙<br />
˙ ˙ ˙<br />
w<br />
œ<br />
Œ Ó<br />
n˙<br />
˙ ˙ ˙<br />
4<br />
4<br />
4<br />
4<br />
4<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
Œ<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
œ œ nœ<br />
pp<br />
œ œ œ œ nœ<br />
pp<br />
œ œ œ œ nœ<br />
pp<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
Œ<br />
˙<br />
˙<br />
œ œ nœ<br />
œ œ œ œ nœ<br />
œ œ œ œ nœ<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
w<br />
ppp<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
w<br />
ppp<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
w<br />
ppp<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
#w<br />
ppp<br />
lunga<br />
U<br />
#w<br />
ppp<br />
U<br />
U<br />
U<br />
U<br />
U<br />
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