Three Simple Settings is about youthful love — lost, mourned, and then found anew. The first movement evokes the solemn, haunting sounds of chanting singers floating across the waters.

Song
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

HEAR, sweet spirit, hear the spell,	
Lest a blacker charm compel!	
So shall the midnight breezes swell	
With thy deep long-lingering knell.	
 
And at evening evermore,
In a Chapel on the shore,	
Shall the Chaunters sad and saintly,	
Yellow tapers burning faintly,	
Doleful Masses chaunt for thee,	
  Miserere Domine!
 
Hark! the cadence dies away	
  On the quiet moonlight sea:	
The boatmen rest their oars and say,	
  Miserere Domine!

Song, Three Simple Settings, mvt. 1

Three Simple Settings is about youthful love — lost, mourned, and then found anew. Long Ago recalls the passion of love lost, the sounds of its rejoicing fading away into a poignant remorse.

Long Ago
Paul Hamilton Hayne

	HERE, long ago,
While the fair River in its spring-time flow,
	Murmured with happy voice
	“Rejoice! Rejoice!”
While youth’s full pulses thrilled within our breasts,
Far from life’s hopeless calms, or fierce unrests,
	We told our love;
The April sunset heaven was bright above,
	The earth below
Most beautiful — but this was long ago,
	Long, very long ago.


Long Ago, Three Simple Settings, mvt. 2

Three Simple Settings is about youthful love — lost, mourned, and then found anew. This setting of Blake's classic poem is brimming with joy, hope, and exhilaration. Because the work might be sung by various ensembles, such as a boychoir or women's chorus, substitute wording is offered, but not required.

Song
William Blake

FRESH from the dewy hill, the merry year 
Smiles on my head and mounts his flaming car; 
Round my young brows the laurel wreathes a shade 
And rising glories beam around my head.

My feet are wing'd while o'er the dewy lawn
I meet my maiden(1) risen like the morn.
Oh bless those holy feet, like angels' feet;
Oh bless those limbs, beaming with heavenly light!

Like as an angel glittering in the sky 
In times of innocence and holy joy; 
The joyful shepherd stops his grateful song 
To hear the music of an angel's tongue. 

So when she(2) speaks, the voice of Heaven I hear; 
So when we walk, nothing impure comes near; 
Each field seems Eden, and each calm retreat; 
Each village seems the haunt of holy feet.
 
But that sweet village, where my black-eyed maid(3) 
Closes her(4) eyes in sleep beneath night's shade, 
Whene'er I enter, more than mortal fire 
Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire.

If desired, the following word substitutions may be employed.

(1) maiden ~ lover
(2) she ~ he
(3) maid ~ fay (meaning fairy, sprite, enchanted spirit)
(4) her ~ his


Song, Three Simple Settings, mvt. 3

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Arr.: Ernest Heyman
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Advent, du stille Zeit (Frauen- und Jugendchor SSA)

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(nach einem alpenländischen Adventslied)
Arr.: Ernest Heyman
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Zünd an das Licht (Frauen- oder Jugendchor SSA)

Ach, mein Seel' fang an zu singen (Frauen- oder Jugendchor SSA)

(Englisches Weihnachtslied)
William Hayman Cummings (1831 - 1915)
Arr.: Ernest Heyman.
Erhältlich für Männerchor TTBB o. TTB, Frauen- oder Jugendchor SSA, Kinderchor SA und Gemischten Chor SATB o. SAM!
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Hark! The Herald Angels sing (Frauen- oder Jugendchor SSA)

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Sängergruß "O Lied, kling' auf"
Musik: Traditional
Text u. Arr.: Ernest Heyman

Sängergruß "Ein Hoch auf den Gesang"
Musik: Traditional
Text u. Arr.: Ernest Heyman
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Sängergruß "O Lied, kling' auf" und "Ein Hoch auf den Gesang" (Frauen- oder Jugendchor SSA)

Joel Phillips taught at Westminster Choir College for 39 years. He is co-author of several textbooks in W. W. Norton’s Musician’s Guide series, including The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals, now the mostly widely used musical text in its market. His crowning achievement was becoming the 2015 Grand Prize Winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest [https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2015], an international competition that selects from among thousands of entries the proposed opening sentence to the worst(!) of all possible novels.

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