BRAXTON BLAKE
BRAXTON BLAKE MUSIC
FOUR MEDITATIONS
The Morning Stars
Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075 –1141)
Let Man Remember Moshe Ibn Ezra (c. 1055 –after 1138)
Prison Moshe Natan (mid-fourteenth century)
Three Things
Schelomo Ibn Gabirol (1021/22–c. 1057/58)
From The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 © 2007 by Princeton University Press Poems translated by Peter Cole Used with the permission of the publisher
The hairpin dynamic markings in the organ part indicate phrasing, character, timbre, as well as dynamic level. They are to be played ad libitum
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THE MORNING STARS BRAXTON
BLAKE YEHUDA HALEVI
Organ Soprano
leggiero
più legato
più staccato
MOSHE NATAN
ossia: pedal tacet until m. 5 with 16’ pedal to manual coupler until m. 5 8’ Organ 8’+4’+2’
Dig a grave in your heart for your se
4’ colla voce 8’
=140 =60–63 Tempo I but once you re veal it, the
pri soner is you.
ossia: simile, as in measures 1–4
THREE THINGS
things meet in my eyes
Three
Soprano =60–63
and keep the
thought of you
and bless, my soul, my Lord at all
times for heart’s re 70 flec
tion with rit. in me
rit.