Her temple

Song TitleHer temple (Search)
Composer(s):Gerald Finzi
Author(s):Thomas Hardy
Keyword(s) & Features: Admiring; Art; Beautiful; Building; Dear; Death; Forgetting; Honor; Honoring; Knowing; Living; Love; Loving; Memorials; Men; Names; Remembering; Shrines; Splendor; Sweet; Temples; Thinking; Transience; Women; Worshipping
First LineDear, think not that they will forget you (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1927 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7270
Larger WorkA Young Man's Exhortation (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Finzi-Gerald-Collected-Songs-high-voice-piano/2013941
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5LDIKeEw7rwTheIzFFw8Dq?si=CGAtwJR_T0yDoK7VoHChFw
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 14 no. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerTenor
Range: D4 - Ab5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
NotesAlso available in low key. This is the only group of songs by Finzi to be considered a song cycle rather than a song set, since it has overarching themes of life, transience, and death. (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceBoosey & Hawkes (Search)
Sources Citedhttp://www.finzisong.com/young_mans_exhortation.html (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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