Product Description
Sweet Echo is a lovely choral work by Healey Willan's written for SATB choir, a capella. The text is a Song from Comus, a Masque by John Milton:
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that livst unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meanders margent green,
And in the violet-embroidered vale,
Where the love-lorn nightingale
N
ightly to thee her sad song mourneth well;
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair
That likest thy Narcissus are?
O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave,
Tell me but where,
Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere!
So mayst thou be translated to the skies,
And give resounding grace to all heavens harmonies.
A piano reduction is included in the score for rehearsal use.
Biretta Books in Chicago works
in cooperation with the Estate of Healey Willan and the Healey Willan Society
to promote the legacy of the Dean of Canadian Composers-Healey Willan.
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