Category: COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY
Composer: John Ness Beck
Arranger: –
Publisher: Beckenhorst Press
Edition: BP 1170
Voicing: TTBB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Robert Scholz
St. Olaf College – Northfield, MN (1997-98)
R&R Chair College & University
A plaintive setting of the famous Donne text with its interesting word-play on the poet’s name. The simple, but idiomatic keyboard (pianistic) accompaniment supports the single line melody which opens into warm 9th chords a cappella as a refrain. The final stanza begins with a contrasting fortissimo section.