Diamond - The Midnight Meditation (sample pages)

For William Wa,:fi'eld

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The Midnight Meditation ELDER OLSON

DAVID DIAMOND

I Lento

(1951)

CJ = 50)

PIANO

poco marc.;quasi in rilievo

ftuido; mare.

A Tempo

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allargando

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agitato

,

Poems used by permission

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Copyright 1954 by Southern Music Publishing Company, inc. .

Jnterpa.tional Copyright 'Secured •.. Printed in U, S. A..

AU Rights Reserved Including the Right of Public Performance for profit.

poco agitato

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Mid-night:

poco agitato •

A Tempo

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sinking,

p sordamente

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engulfed in gloom.

----1 cresc.

poco mare.

• stringelido •

..

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darkness

dim.

a_bove And the

cast from the

ma solenne

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am lost 1n you 1nosso ( d = 63)

colla voce

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pause after the voice releases the fermata. The piano goes on at once as a connecting phrase.

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to mou1¡n

mournful sea-son,

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A Tempo

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savage rites

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And perhaps

af _ ter

all ______

poco mare.

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tread-mill as a

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