Weir I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS

Judith Weir I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS for chorus SATB and organ

CHESTER MUSIC

Commissioned by the Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 90th birthday of HM The Queen, generously supported by the Boltini Trust.

Performed at the National Service of Thanksgiving for HM The Queen’s birthday at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, on Friday 10th June 2016 in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

Music by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music, the Chapter of year St Paul’s Cathedral wordsCommissioned

by Robert Bridges,by Poet Laureate in the HM The Queen was born.

to mark the 90th birthday of HM The Queen, Duration c. 3½ generously supported byminutes the Boltini Trust.

Score on sale: Order No. CH82038

Performed at the national service of thanksgiving for HM The Queen’s birthday logoCathedral, in honour of Her Majesty The 90th10th birthday designed by atFront St cover Paul’s London, onQueen’s Friday June 2016 in the presence ofaged HM10,The The Duke of Edinburgh.

Lucas Salinger, fromQueen Potten Endand C of HRH E Primary School in Hertfordshire Music by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music, COMPOSER’S NOTE words by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate in the year HM The Queen was born.

At the suggestion of Michael Hampel, Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, I have set words

by Robert Bridges, who was Poet Laureate from 1913–1930. Bridges was an outstanding humanitarian and writer, whose poetry has inspired me before in The Voice of Desire, a song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano.

Duration c. 3½ minutes This short, fast-tempo setting aims to emulate the swift, fleet-footed rhyme and metre of Score on sale: Order No. CH82038 the two-verse poem, with its unobtrusive but telling reference to ‘man in his hasty days’.

J. W.

I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS words by Robert Bridges OM (1844-1930) Poet Laureate 1913-30

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honoured for them.

I too will something make And joy in the making; Altho’ to-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking.

[I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honoured for them.]

I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS Judith Weir (2016)

Text: Robert Bridges

Soprano

Alto

q = 144 Molto mosso

6 4

p (background at first)

6 4

p (background at first)

I

I

love,

love,

I

p (background at first)

6 4

Tenor

I

I

6 4

Bass

q = 144 Molto mosso

6 4 Organ

6 4

mp (brightly)

mp

4

S. love,

I

love,

I

love

all

I

love

all

I

love

all

love

all

mp A. love,

I

love,

mp T. love,

I

love,

mp B. I

Org.

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seek,

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p

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6 4

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S. God

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for

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for

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too,

(warm, but clear)

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thing

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make

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mp

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and

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words

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p

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mp

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all beau

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dore f

them; mf

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mf

f

mf

mp

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S. God

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hath no

bet ter praise,

f

mf

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mp

man

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has

ty

man

in his

has

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in his

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man

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hath no

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mp

mf

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all beau te ous

mp

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love

all beau te ous

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all beau te ous

mp

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for

them.

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I

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f

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I

seek

and a dore

them;

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hath

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no

f

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I

seek

and a dore

them;

God

hath

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no

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mp

mf

S. bet ter

praise,

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man

in his has

ty

days

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man

in his has

ty

days

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man

in his has

ty

days

man

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ty

days

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mp

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praise,

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praise,

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mp (brightly)

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