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When Death Comes
for tenor and guitar
Music by Kamala Sankaram
Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
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Performance Notes
Guitar should tune 6th string down to C.
Many of these guitar gestures are based on typical ornaments played on the sitar. Pull-offs should be as sharp a possible.
Harmonics are notated at sounding pitch.
The piece begins in Raga Todi and shifts to Raga Saraswati.
Poem by Rabindranath Ragore
When death comes and whispers to me, Thy days are ended
Let me say to him, I have lived in love and not in mere time. He will ask, “ Will thy songs remain?”
I shall say I know not. But this I know, that often when I sang, I found my eternity.
Instrumentation
Tenor Guitar
Duration: 5'
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First printing, March 2024
Copyright ©2021 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved.
Program Note Copyright ©2021 Kamala Sankaram. All Rights Reserved
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