SP4002
In the bleak midwinter
Music: Sheena Phillips, Words: Christina Rossetti
Voicing: SATB
Performance time approx: 3m 30s
Range S: a' – f'' / A: a – c'' / T: e – e' / B: A – a
Price code: B
Complexity:
A few small revisions have been made to the original score.
In the bleak mid-winter,
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone.
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him,
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign;
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
Christina Rossetti (extracts from the full poem)