The long day closes
Arthur Sullivan · words Henry Fothergill Chorley
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATBB
- Key
- A♭ major
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- quarter note = 80
- Length
- 67 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest C4Highest E♭5
Alto part
Range
Lowest A♭3Highest C5
Tenor part
Range
Lowest D3Highest G♭4
Bass 1 part
Range
Lowest G2Highest D♭4
Bass 2 part
Range
Lowest E♭2Highest D♭4
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The words
Verse 1
No star is o'er the lake, Its pale watch keeping, The moon is half awake, Through gray mist creeping, The last red leaves fall 'round The porch of roses, The clock hath ceased to sound, The long day closes. Sit by the silent hearth In calm endeavour, To count the sounds of mirth, Now dumb forever. Heed not how hope believes And fate disposes: Shadow is 'round the eaves, The long day closes; The lighted windows dim Are fading slowly. The fire that was so trim Now quivers lowly, quivers lowly. Go to the dreamless bed Where grief reposes, Thy book of toil is read, The long day closes; Go to the dreamless bed Where grief reposes, Thy book of toil is read, Thy book of toil is read, Go to the dreamless bed, The long day closes.
Free to sing: Arthur Sullivan died in 1900 and Henry Fothergill Chorley died in 1872.