Name: In the Bleak Midwinter by Robert Kirby SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Robert Kirby
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In the Bleak Midwinter
by Robert Kirby SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title In the Bleak Midwinter

Artist Robert Kirby

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Robert Kirby

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Robert Kirby

Product ID 1127181

Genre Christmas Sacred

Instruments Choir

Product Description

This exquisitely melancholy and evocative carol, imagining the Nativity in a snowy Northern landscape, was originally written by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) as a Christmas poem for an American magazine, Scribners Monthly, in 1872. Few carols can express the quiet heart of Christmas more movingly. Gustav Holst (1874-1934) originally set the poem to music for the 1906 edition of The English Hymnal. In verse one, Rossetti describes the harsh conditions of Earth at the time of Christs birth in Bethlehem. In verse two, Rossetti contrasts Christ's first and second coming. The third verse portrays the differences between the transcendental angels attendant at Christ's birth and Mary's ability to render Jesus physical affection. The final verse shifts the depiction to a more introspective thought process. In this version of "In the Bleak Midwinter", Georgia composer Robert Kirby has given the text a new, introspective melody.

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