Product Description
One of a series of simple songs for piano and voice using settings of poems
about animals, this song uses a poem by Walt Whitman who compares the webmaking of the spider to his soul's search for understanding.
This series of songs placed in the Music
Teachers of California Composers Today State Contest in the "teaching pieces by
a teacher" division.
The words are:
A noiseless patient spider,
I markd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Markd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launchd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be formd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
See my website at www.deephum.com and my facebook pages at Connie Pwll Walck Tyler,
Deep Hum Productions, and The Earth Woman Tree Woman Quartet. For more information
contact me at connie@deephum.com.
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