Here are adjacent pages from Janice Hamer's Everlasting
for mixed chorus and piano - an ethereal, spooky setting of famed British poet
Cecil Collin's work of the same name. There are some contemporary composition
techniques here, as well as some unique scoring solutions (seen below) regarding
the shift of music from one set of staves to another, as the sopranos and tenors
divide into four parts, and then return to tutti. Not only was this effective
in communicating the divisi writing, but leant an appropriately modern look to
the score.
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