Lament
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Instrumentation
Cello
1
Double bass
1
Viola
1
Voices
Additional Information
Lament is a short piece which expresses emotions embodied in these lines from ‘The Wife's Lament’, an Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book (in the modern translation by Michael R. Burch):
"I draw these dark words from deep wells of wild grief, dredged from my heart, regretful & sad".
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Minutes
7