Two Scenes from Shakespeare (2014)

Two Scenes from Shakespeare for SATB (w/ div) a cappella choir

By

Daniel Sabzghabaei (2014)

From Act V, Scene I of A Midsummer Night's Dream The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Lovers, to bed. 'Tis almost fairy time.

I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched.

This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.

A fortnight hold we this solemnity, In nightly revels and new jollity.

From Act II, Scene I of A Midsummer Night's Dream The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter change Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.

-William Shakespeare

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Information on cover art.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by Kyla Nichole Nelson http://kylanicholenelson.wordpress.com/ (used with permission from artist).

The Iron Tongue of Midnight I.

Score

Daniel Sabzghabaei Text from Act V, Scene I of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

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