Skempton Poems of Love and War
for SATB unaccompanied Poems of Love and War sets a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known as 'kennings', while the love poems are more direct, and sometimes playful. Skempton's imaginative settings bring these striking texts to life, artfully using changing metres to evoke the sound of spoken word.
for SATB unaccompanied
Poems of Love and War sets a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known as 'kennings', while the love poems are more direct, and sometimes playful. Skempton's imaginative settings bring these striking texts to life, artfully using changing metres to evoke the sound of spoken word.
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<strong>Poems</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Love</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>War</strong><br />
1. ‘The earl bore his banner’<br />
Arnor Thordarson (11th century)<br />
trans. Judith Jesch (b. 1954)<br />
HOWARD SKEMPTON<br />
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The earl bore his ban - ner on to an - cient En - glish ground, his<br />
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troop red - dened ea - gle’s tongue as he made flags ad - vance.<br />
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foe <strong>of</strong> boughs spewed smoke <strong>and</strong> threw light to - wards the sky.<br />
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for online perusal only<br />
Flames shot up; halls col - lapsed; his men made re - fu - gees; the<br />
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Duration: 8 mins<br />
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