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Bugle song
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Bugle song by Howard Kingsbury — Lyrics
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
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About Bugle song
Howard Kingsbury's Bugle Song opens with a sense of spaciousness, the SATB voices weaving together to paint a picture of majestic, ancient landscapes. The text, a poem by Alfred Tennyson, conjures images of light on mountains and lakes, and the sound of a distant bugle call echoing through the glens. The music vividly captures this natural grandeur and the romantic evocation of a fantasy realm, with the voices imitating the far-off horns. The composer skillfully builds to moments of dramatic power before receding into the ethereal echoes of the final lines, creating a stirring and evocative experience.
