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Echoes
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Echoes by Francis Edward Gladstone — Lyrics
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To Music, at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o’er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light!
Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
And far more sweet
Than e’er, beneath the moonlight’s star,
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About Echoes
Francis Edward Gladstone’s partsong Echoes sets a poem that explores the nature of echoes, both literal and metaphorical. The text contrasts the fleeting, natural echoes awakened by music in the landscape with the deeper, more resonant echo of a sincere sigh of love returned. The composer’s SATB setting in English captures this progression, from the lightness of the natural world to the profound intimacy of human connection. This secular work offers choirs an opportunity to explore lyrical expression and delicate harmonic colour, reflecting the poem’s gentle sentiment and evocative imagery.
