Schott Long Time - Proust/Barry - SATB

• Composer/Author: BARRY, GERALD
• Instrumentation: SATB A CAP
• Model # 49019676

Text from Remembrance Of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Composer: Gerald Barry
Format: Octavo
Voicing: SATB a cappella

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provides the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising and falling C major scales, voice parts handing over to each other in the strict rhythmic regularity that prevails throughout the piece. English.