Alliance Music Pub Peace - Antognini - SATB/Oboe

• Composer/Author: ANTOGNINI, IVO
• Instrumentation: SATB ACCOMP
• Model # AMP1007

Lyrics: Eva Gore-Booth
Composer: Ivo Antognini
Editor: Desmond Earley
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SATB with Oboe

The long and waving line of the blue hills

Makes rhythmical the twilight, no sharp peak

Pierces the kind air with a roughhewn will

To storm the sky, no soaring mountains seek

To break the melody of the flowing line,

But the hills wander on in a long wave,

And all the while invisible stars shine

Over the sea and the white cairn of Maeve.

- Eva Gore-Booth (1870 1926)

"PEACE is the second of three pieces that I wrote for the UCD (University College Dublin) Choral Scholars, directed by Desmond Earley. This "Irish Trilogy" centres on three key elements: War, Peace and Aimhirgin. This setting for mixed choir and oboe is taken from a beautiful poem by Eva Gore Booth. I found this text quite magical and enchanting; it speaks of vast expanses, closing with this beautiful verse: And all the while invisible stars shine Over the sea and the white cairn of Maeve. With my music I've tried to describe the sense of peace that this gifted poet must have felt while experiencing such a wonderful landscape. - Ivo Antognini