Ronald James [Ronald] Stevenson (06/03/1928 – 28/03/2015) was a Scottish composer, pianist, and writer about music.
Source: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stevenson |
Requiem
Period: | Modernism |
Composed in: | 1964 |
Musical form: | song |
Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894) |
‘Requiem’ (1964) for medium voice and piano. From Four Robert Louis Stevenson Songs.
Source: | http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/richard-dury-archive/music.htm |
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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R.L. Stevenson (text) |