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Continuities Text by Walt Whitman Music by Sammy Strent

for SATB Choir with Piano and Cello

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Continuities for SATB Choir with Piano and Cello Approximate duration: 4 minutes

PERFORMANCE NOTES: • The 32nd notes in the right hand of the piano beginning in measure 21 can be played more like grace notes rather than full-value 32nd notes.

• In measure 53, the word “aged” should be pronounced with two syllables.

• In measure 55, treat the word “fires” as a one syllable word.

• The suggested bowing for the cello in measure 17 is:

© 2021, Sammy Strent

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Continuities Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.

Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing; Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.

Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.

The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires, The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again; The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual; To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns, With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

-Walt Whitman

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Premiered at the Frost School of Music in Gusman Hall on April 27th, 2021

Text by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

Cello

Piano

S.

A.

T.

B.

C.

Pno.

4



 = 108, With forward energy      

   



    



   

Continuities

Music by Sammy Strent (b. 2002)

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 8

S.

A.

T.

B.



C.

A.

T.

B.

C.

Pno.



 



  

12



   

  



  



Pno.

S.

  

A

  

No thing

  



No thing

   

           

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ev er real ly

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is

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or can be

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is

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No thing

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Continuities

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2

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of the

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of the

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of the

of the

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3

 16

S.

A.

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   

world,

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S.

A.

19

         

Pno.



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nor

force,

nor

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nor

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nor

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nor

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

force,

nor

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B

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thing;

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nor

thing;

a

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life,

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Nor

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a

T.

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life,

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Pno.





Nor



world,





Nor



     

C.



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world,

  

T.

B.

   

Continuities

si

ble

thing;

si

ble

thing;

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     arco





         

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 

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 

 22

S.

A.

T.

B.

C.

A.

T.

B.

C.

Pno.



  



   

 

24





    

Pno.

S.

   

    





  

 

Continuities

 





 

Ap

pear

ance

must

Ap

pear

ance

must



not





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



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

not





 

4



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    

 

    

foil,





      











foil,







nor

shif

nor

shif



ted













sphere

ted sphere

  









con

con







fuse

thy

fuse

thy





        

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3

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

  

3

 

© 2021 Sammy Strent

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

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3

3

3

3

5

 26

S.

A.

T.

B.



C.

Pno.

S.

A.

T.

30

   

brain.

    



Pno.

 

Am



ple

  

Am

ple

 



are







  

    

            





C



ture.

ture.



           





 

              

      

and space

  

am ple the field and

are

time







   



 

am ple the field and











and space











time

                        

na

C.





    



 



brain.

na

B.



   

Continuities



   

   

                  

          



 

 

  







                                                      

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 34

S.

A.

T.

B.

C.

38

T.

C.

Pno.

 





 



  



 





 



  





 





 







  







    

A.

B.



    

Pno.

S.

  

Continuities

 

 



  

 



  



 



6



                                                                                                    



    





  



No thing



No thing

  

No thing

   

    

No thing



     

     

is

ev er real ly

     

is



lost,



ev er real ly

lost,

     







is

ev er real ly

lost,

is

ev er real ly

lost,



   

or can be

lost,

or can be

lost,

   

lost,

   

   

or can be





 

or can be









 

lost,







                                                © 2021 Sammy Strent

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 42

S.

A.

T.







 





   

C.

       







No

birth,

No

birth,



No



birth,

No

birth,



   B.   







    



Continuities

     i



den ti

ty,

     i







den ti

form



ty,

form

    





den ti

ty,

form

i

den ti

ty,

form







i







    no

 no



 



ob

ject

ob

ject











 

no

ob

ject

no

ob

ject

 



 



of the



of the

 

of the



 

 

of the

                                             46      S.         

Pno.

A.

T.

   



world,



world,

Nor

world,

C.

Pno.

 



world,

   



Nor



   B.   



 

Nor

      Nor



life,

 

life,

life,

  

life,

 



nor



force,

 

 

nor



nor

force,

nor

nor

force,

nor

   

force,





nor

 

 





      nor

                                                                                            

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A.

49

Continuities

     

      a

     



a

T.



    

   B.     a

ny

a

     

    

ny

vi

ny

vi

si

ble

thing;

  

thing;

si

ny

  vi





ble





     vi



Poco rit...



si

ble

thing;

si

ble

thing;

 

    

pizz.

Sul Pont.

 = 80, Grounded          

      

        

     

D

          The

The

 

The

dy, slug gish,

bo

  

dy, slug gish,

bo

dy, slug gish,

ooh

 



arco

bo



                                          Pno.                   54                          S.     

  a

ged cold the

ged cold the



A.

T.

 



                

em

bers

    

Pno.



 



  

grown

dim

  

  

  

 

 

em bers leftfrom ear li er fi res,The light in the eye grown dim

em bers leftfrom

 

res,The light

3

   B.    C.

fi











fi

res,The light







grown





dim

            shall du ly

flame a gain;

            shall du ly

  

shall du ly

     

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





flame a gain;

 

flame a gain;

     



 

   



 



    

 

  

  

a

ged cold the

  

C.

      a

 

                   

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

Normale

8

9

 61

S.

A.

T.

B.

C.

A.

T.





  





  



    

    

Pno.

S.

  

65

  

   B.   

Pno.

in thewest

      low

C.

        

              

low



 

  

in thewest

Poco rit...





     

Continuities







ris



es











ris

 









   

The









 

 



Gently



 







E





 









  

 



mor nings



es





sun

ris

   

The sun

 

now

 

now

 

    

andfor noons

Gently

for



The sun



       mor nings

  

Gently

Gently

      

for



  



Moving



andfor noons







  

and



for noons

            

es

noons

                                                

    



 

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

 68

S.

        

A.





con

tin u



C.

Pno.

 72

S.

A.

T.

B.

C.

Pno.



con

con

 

al;



con

 

            

 



    





    



flow

    





flow

grass and flow ers





ers



ers



ers

   

grass and flow ers

    3          3             3

  

3

3

3



 

      

 

fro zen clods

ev

er

               

Poco rit...

      

ah

      

and sum mer fruits and





fruits

 

 



and sum mer fruits and

© 2021 Sammy Strent

3 vi si ble

     3



ev er the springs in

To fro zen clods

To

 

ers

   

    

u al;

 

 3

To fro zen clods

u al;

    

3 ev er the spring's in

To fro zen clods

u al;

flow



With

tin

flow

With grass and flow ers

With

tin



With grass and flow ers



tin

       

             

u al;

   

con

    

               

tin u

tin

    



con



    

            



al;

      B.    T.

   

Continuities



fro



vi si ble

   

F

  

land re turns,





  





 

   

A Tempo





corn.



corn.

       

land re turns,

zen

spring's

 

  

10

and

corn.

 

   

 

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11

 76

S.

A.

  

   

T.



   

A.

 

con

80

      

      al;

       



tin

u

Pno.



con











  

tin

u al;



 

al;







ah

con

con

tin





    

tin



tin

 

 



con

 

  



 

 



  tin

u

  u al;



            

 



 

 



ah

al;

 



 



ah





u









tin

u

               



ah

tin

u



con

 

u al;





con

con

 



tin

con

 



u al;

 

Stagger breathe until end

                                        



con



u

 

al;

                                 



tin





Molto rit...

al;

C.



con

  



al;

B.



 

     

 



                  

al;

T.



  

Pno.

S.





   B.    C.



Proudly

Continuities

   



     

© 2021 Sammy Strent

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tin

 

u

 











       



   



  

Cello

Continuities

 = 108, With forward energy          11

18

23

29

36

40





         







        



   

 



             

   

  

  

   

pizz.

              

C

  

3

3



   



     

3

B



 



     

A

    

  

3

              

  

    

     





                



3

    





 arco                                             

Music by Sammy Strent (b. 2002)





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 

 

  

46

        D

      

 = 80, Grounded Sul Pont.

52      56

60

 

70

78

82





   



64



  

   

Normale

E

Moving





 





   







  





 





 

       

     

 

 arco               



         

pizz.

 











          

Poco rit...

F

 



Poco rit...



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  

   



A Tempo Proudly

                                  

© 2021 Sammy Strent

 



 

2



                  

         

 

 

Continuities

  



