Sonnet 29 "When in Disgrace"

The sonnet of William Shakespeare set to music and arranged for orchestra and SATB Choir. The piece begins loud and dramatically with crashes and booms, then contrast with a beautiful and romantic second part. Orchestration: Fl12, Ob12, ClBb 12, Bsn 12, Hrn 12, Trmp 12, Tim, Perc (Sus cym with soft mallet, tri) piano, strings Full Score (concert pitch) and parts included. Vocal score with piano reduction sold separately. This art song is from "A Cycle of Sonnets" Music by 21st century, American composer James Nathaniel Holland SONNET 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. YouTube video presentation (with Tenor soloist): https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry0b9cLOYc4