An official selection of MSC’s 2024 Call for Scores, Pari Bahrami’s ’Tis Moonlight transports the listener into the ethereal beauty and tranquility of a summertime moonlit forest, gorgeously illustrating the poetry of Emily Brontë.
Ideal for concerts on the themes of nature, night-time, light and darkness, and settings of classic English authors/literature. This SATB (mostly non-divisi) work incorporates intuitive flowing melodic lines throughout all parts, and is suitable for high school choirs, intermediate-level community choirs and beyond.
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MSC0021 – ‘Tis Moonlight – PERUSAL SCORE PDF
COMPOSER’S PROGRAM NOTE:
“‘Tis Moonlight,” a setting of the poem by Emily Brontë, explores the ethereal beauty of a summer moonlit night. Brontë, a name synonymous with the wild and untamed spirit of the Yorkshire moors, remains an enigmatic figure in English literature. Born in 1818, she was a novelist and poet whose sole novel, Wuthering Heights, defied the conventions of Victorian literature and continues to captivate readers with its raw emotional intensity and gothic grandeur.
This poem, however, captures a different facet of Brontë’s artistry, evoking a sense of tranquility and wonder through gentle imagery of soft moonlight, still air, and sweet thoughts. The poem’s focus on trees and their interaction with the moonlight highlights the harmonious relationship between nature and the human experience, creating a serene and introspective atmosphere.
ORIGINAL TEXT:
Moonlight, summer moonlight
Emily Jane Brontë
‘Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.
And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.
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