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Christopher Tin is a contemporary composer who is best known for his choral piece called Baba Yetu. With an impressive educational background in music composition, English literature, and art history, his compositions come to life with like nothing that I've experienced before. It is simply some of the most beautiful and expressive music I have ever heard.
The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humans. Tins soundtrack is a fantastic work of art, with its soaring musical phrases that make you feel like youre flying.
The Saddest Noise is a choral piece, with its lyrics taken from Emily Dickinsons poem, The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise, which talks of the relationship between beauty and grief.
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,
The maddest noise that grows,
The birds, they make it in the spring,
At nights delicious close.
Between the March and April line
That magical frontier
Beyond which summer hesitates,
Almost too heavenly near.
It makes us think of all the dead
That sauntered with us here,
By separations sorcery
Made cruelly more dear.
It makes us think of what we had,
And what we now deplore.
We almost wish those siren throats
Would go and sing no more.
An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.
The Lost Birds soundtrack was sung by the choral group, Voces8, who made the music and poetry come to life in a way that not many other groups could. It is simply beautiful.
This arrangement is scored for clarinet choir 4 Bb, alto, bass, and contrabass. There is an optional Eb part to play in addition to, or in lieu of, the 1st Bb part. This is not a strict transcription - I added moving parts and changed/added notes to make it of more interest as an instrumental piece. I hope you like it.
Duration: 3.5 minutes
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