Name: Eventide by David Baldwin Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: David Baldwin
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Eventide
by David Baldwin Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Eventide

Artist David Baldwin

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer David Baldwin

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 22

Arrangement Choir

Publisher David Baldwin

Level 4

Product ID 1421395

Genre Sacred Classical A Cappella Christian Renaissance

Instruments Choir

Product Description

"Eventide" is powerfully narrative in style: a yearning and intimate prayer that our Shepherd would be near in the night (symbolic of difficult times). The piece uses M.L. Hofford's lyrics, which he penned in response to the human cost of war. On a personal level, Hofford's lyrics struck me as especially comforting after an unusually sobering death in the community. The verses are decidedly minimalist and have a chant-like beauty to them, so as to emphasize pondering. The refrains fill out in texture (up to 7 parts) as the prayer shifts to beckoning.

1. Abide with me; 'tis eventide. The day is past and gone; the shadows of the evening fall; the night is coming on. Within my home a welcome guest, within my home abide.
2. Abide with me, 'tis eventide. Thy walk today with me has made my heart within me burn as I communed with thee. Thy earnest words have filled my soul and kept me near thy side.
3. Abide with me, 'tis eventide. And lone will be the night if I cannot commune with thee, nor find in thee my light. The darkness of this world, I fear, would in my home abide.

Refrain: O Savior, stay this night with me; behold, 'tis eventide. Amen.

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