For William Wa,:fi'eld
2
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
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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
p
sLlenLly
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sinking,
p sordamente
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engulfed in gloom.
----1 cresc.
poco mare. • stringelido •
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Troy Or towns faint glimmering __ that profound_ ly
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lie
Drowned in the depths of
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J= 50
uasi da lontano
poco agitato
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smcrzando
rit.
Modcrato (
J= 72)
II
7
proclamato
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Immen_sLty,_ like the
darkness
dim.
a_bove And the
cast from the
ma solenne
darkness earth- born, (ie) I:'\
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Meno
am lost 1n you 1nosso ( d = 63)
colla voce
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A Tempo
pause after the voice releases the fermata. The piano goes on at once as a connecting phrase.
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8
mind
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to mou1¡n
mournful sea-son,
p
cresc.
A Tempo
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savage rites
kept
by the
an _cient earth. ::::--..
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i-,oco pi u mosso;non tan to 72 circa)
__fr;_,
p espr.
13
lung-a ani
man
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do
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poco calando
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J=48)
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con rassegnazione spirituale mp ----' I thought_
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are
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--========= mp
,p once
I should
have
at
a
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and
cen_ter of a new
steadfast
pure as
world,·
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21
And perhaps
af _ ter
all ______
poco mare.
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tread-mill as a
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tread-mill:
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at
recognizing_