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At That Hour When All Things Have Repose

COMPOSER'S NOTE

In my setting of James Joyce's At That Hour When All Things Have Repose, a soft, rubato melody rises above the opening bass octave. The emphasis on the monosyllables establishes the text’s iambic rhythm. But the effect is a slowing of the tempo, thus achieving the “repose” intimated in the first line. “Play on, invisible harps, unto love” is emphasized by corresponding arpeggios in the piano, mimicking a harp. After a dramatic sweep, the vocal line descends back to a condition of repose.

It is available for high voice (soprano or tenor) and medium voice (mezzo-soprano or baritone). It is also part of my collection of ten art songs on poems by James Joyce that I wrote during the winter and spring of 2019:

Ten Poems of James Joyce (High Voice and Piano)
Ten Poems of James Joyce (Medium Voice and Piano)

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THE TEXT 

At that hour when all things have repose, 
O lonely watcher of the skies, 
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs 
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose 
The pale gates of sunrise? 

When all things repose do you alone 
Awake to hear the sweet harps play 
To Love before him on his way, 
And the night wind answering to antiphon 
Till night is overgone? 

Play on, invisible harps, unto Love, 
Whose way in heaven is aglow 
At that hour when soft lights come and go, 
Soft sweet music in the air above 
And in the earth below. 

James Joyce, 1882 - 1941

At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by Henry Dehlinger

DURATION
4 minutes 

YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2019 

LICENSING
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) 

INSTRUMENTATION
High Voice & Piano  
Medium Voice & Piano 

BUY
Digital & Print: J.W. Pepper

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