The Garden of Love by William Blake, music by Rodney Money SSAA
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Description from Alfred Publishing: This stellar original work for SSAA chorus features an expressive Celtic-flavored melody to outline the William Blake text. Piano and cello create an atmosphere of their own as the vocal lines intertwine with accompaniment passages for a mystical effect. Very nicely done.
My literature professor played it in class today, now I can't stop listening to it! Honestly it gave me goosebumps.
Who else watching this during quarantine?
My favorite comment.
I would love to compose more music for poetry. I simply need the vocalist and choirs of the world to show their interest in art also and contact me like small ensembles and concert bands do. Thank you once again! You made my day and possibly even life!
The painting 'Monastery Graveyard In The Snow' by Caspar David Friedrich ought get a mention as well.
Hello Rodney money i am Brasil oh beautiful music thank you
I loved singing this in choir. That low alto part was so fun to sing.
❤❤❤❤❤beautiful❤❤❤❤❤
This gives me shivers it’s such a beautiful song
Thank you so much.
If you are still here.
Thank you for this.
this is so tastefull... love william blake and i love this arrangment/composition
Thank you for showing this masterpiece to the world
"This is where it all started.
This is where mother saved me and left you behind
That's what you think
What you don't realise she kept searching and searching until eventually she got killed "
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I didn't recall this place
This is all an illusion created by this extraordinary fruit
It's power was all I ever wanted
Devil May Cry 5
We sang this last year in choir and hearing it still gives me chills. Thanks for sharing your obvious gift(:
Beautiful ❤️. Thank you I adore William Blake 💐
Love ur music mate . Appreciate your work 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love comments with crap and beautiful all in the same statement, LOL! Thank you so much; made my day! The vocalist works with Alfred Publishing which is one of my publishers so you would have to ask them since I am not 100% sure. So will I be doing similar things in the future? Do you mean composing in general, writing for choir, or doing more Blake stuff?
good gracious.....THAT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!
Illuminated it perfectly
mesmeric and magical. I love the long incantatory introduction. It's beautifully structured too, with that hesitant, ambiguous piano part followed by the growth to a wall-like climax on "shut". I think I'll listen to it for the third time in a row now...
Ooh, found it. I have this recording and the score saved somewhere from The Composer's Forum several years ago, but I can't find the files now - for shame! Nice finding it here - that melody's so darn good, every now and then it just pops in my head.
As I said, every now and then. I found myself humming this around work today, so here I am again...
I feel that you really put life to the poet's words. Awesome piece. It would be awesome if you composed more beauties like this.
I was clicking around Minecraft videos in YT and tripped over you. Keep up the great work. Its good to meet a fellow active UA-camr.
All the best.
+Minecraft - Avo's Journey Trip on me anytime! Thank you.
my absolute pleasure :)
Your music is beautiful and also the words of Wiliam Blake by
this picture. Thanks!
my choir class was introduced to this song today for our next concert and we all and I mean ALL fell in love with it, it is such a beautiful song
Thank you so much Brianna. Are y'all still going to perform it?
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Super well done! Congratulations from Brazil!
Wow, beautiful composition. I love the Celtic flavors. Your work really moved me this morning, much talent, bravo..
So lovely, I can't stop listening to it
Singing this for choir. Such a beautiful piece
+Citrus Baughman Absolutely wonderful! What choir can I ask?
stunning, can't wait to perform it this spring
I mean both. But let's break down to these points:
1) Composing in general: There might be a lot of musicians on UA-cam, but your unique variety amidst the myriad enriches the diversity, giving something only you can. So yes; MOAR ART!
2) Not just Blake's stuff, but interpreting every good poetry out there with your musical sense. People forget that rhythm is most important in poetry, but you've a knack of flowing with that rhythm!
So beautiful and sad at the same time
Having to memorise Blake poems for my English Literature exam and this seriously helps!
The painter is Caspar David Friedrich. The place is in
Germany.
this is magestic, indeed very beautiful!!!
Thank you for this, it is beautiful, I never post on youtube but had to for this amazin take on Blake, please do more!
First listened to this a few months ago on your SoundCloud, and I fell in love with it instantly ❤
I appreciate that! Thank you so much. Most of my SoundCloud stuff is simply unfinished things, but I am happy to hear that you did find it.
This piece is to die for, can't believe I get to sing this in choir. Are there any other songs similar to this?
So beautiful
very beautiful.
Thanks from germany to you and your team. A powerful sound to a great poem.
Will be singing this in our choir! And I was given the solo😬 Very excited! It's beautiful!
+Michelle Tewksbury Awesome! I would love to hear it if your choir makes a recording. The more Celtic sounding you can make it, the better for this piece. I originally write the solo specifically for the sound of one of my friends back in our days at college. She had a pure, clear, lyrical tone, and combining that with a Celtic accent was pure magic. Good luck to you, my friend!
This piece is stunning. I'm a singer, cellist-turned-bass viol player, Orff music educator (until Covid), and I can't get this out of my head! The cello solo is perfect (I can't get enough of it) and the vocal parts capture the heart and soul of the poem. I was looking for song settings of Blake poems, apart from Britten and Vaughan Williams settings, but this one...it's so moving. And I'm half Scots-Irish...you've got a winner, here (although I am late to this party, as it's 2021).
Thank you so much for your words. They meant the world to me and absolutely made my day. I’ve always loved the sound of the bass viol that you play, such raw emotion from such a beautiful instrument. I really needed your comment today. Although I’ve had a steady amount of commissions throughout the years to mostly professionals and universities I don’t feel as though I’ve done enough to make a true difference in this world. I’ve always had this symphony in my head that this piece would be the last part of the 3rd movement leading us to the finale, and as silly and “romantic” as this seems sometimes I feel the failure of today’s music is because of the failure of me accomplishing more. Way too deep, and way too foolish, I know. Just ignore me. Thank you again, and thank you for devotion to music and as an Orff music educator. I hope you get to teach again after COVID.
@@composingatnight Alas, the plight of the composer! UA-cam allows people to hear your music and it's made quite a difference to me, having your tune in my head, so perfectly matched with poetry I've loved all my life. So I'd write that symphony, if I were you, regardless of where it will go or be heard (I'd love to hear it). My husband and I are essentially Baroque Performance Practice musicians (yeah, no money in THAT) so...making a difference came through our day-gigs: teaching/church jobs/Army-musician/parenting, (plus freelancing!). But that tendency to feel that one's artistic potential hasn't been 'realized' nags a bit if we let it. Approaching retirement age (ahem) gives me a bit of insight I didn't have before! I wish you well, Rodney, you made MY day with your reply...
Yes we are for our next school concert in March, very very excited.
Wow! That was gorgeous!!!
Who are you really? Thanks for touching my brain my friend...
+NEKTARIOS ZOGKOS Ah, thank you so much! Made my day. I'm just someone who is trying to tell their story through music.
So beautifully done!
Thank you!
"Renegade priests and treacherous young witches were handing out the flowers I had given to you".... - from Changing of the Guards by Bob Dylan
I love poetry. I really love this video and the music is sublime.
How wonderful! Where is your choir located and what part did you sing? Thank you so very much for your comments and compliments. It means so much.
Thank you Germany from the USA for your warm words.
We are singing this song in our women's coir and taking it and a couple others to some competitions. We've learned most of it in two days.
We are doing Blake for our A2 poetry exam, and we've found that this song is amazing to get high too, and helps you remember the lyrics :D
New Poem
I am waiting for this blade
To sink deeper
And my pain to bleed away
Escaping salvation
At the doors my nightmares await
Like medicines dissipating in a glass
Its almost 3 AM
Their presence like the moon
Is reflecting my days
Fading in time
Wrapped in agony
I cherish my demise
"Find what you love,
and let it kill you."
~ Charles Bukowski
Oh I wish this was uploaded a few years ago when my choir did this... ^_^ still my favorite piece tho....
11 year ago wow hope u living ur beat life
@@bedouinknight9437 Well, I am a married mom of two now who regularly sings to her babies. Funny, because I still sing this song too! I tried out for the solo in the 9th grade and got shot down and was so upset, but I sing it to them anyway haha
So very happy to hear this! I am glad that it went well.
Oh my goth, your music is melancholic beauty, stunning
@composingatnight Iowa, and Opus ( which is for freshman and younger) is singing it too. Its an extremely beautiful song that brought tears to my eyes when I read to sheet music. I am extremely touched by the poem and so the music just brings a whole new level to it. Thank you.
stunning.
Wonderful composition.
AMEN In the Garden with mother Eve
@PassionateMistress The beauty of music is that people can have different interpretations. Eventhough Blake may have wrote the poem about the dictatorship of the church on human passions and desires, the music can give whole new meanings that even Blake could not have imagined. As a composer who feels that his talent comes from God, like Bach, it is impossible to hear a piece of my music without hearing His voice.
Well done. I'm teaching this poem for my English class of high school seniors tomorrow, and I'm definitely using this video! Great work
My mentor teacher and students were blown away by the song! Lesson went really well.
You are so welcome. It is so great to hear from you. Have I ever met you personally? Check out the live version; you can see it on the video response. It is the Apex chorus live version.
~Rodney Money
So lovely...
“I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world and now I feel like the world and the universe experiencing a guy” Jim Carrey
Thank you so much. Please check out the live version. You might prefer it.
~Rodney Money
OMG THIS SONG JUST GAVE ME LIFE!!!
Your words gave me life.
HOLY CRAP, MAN! THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for doing this!
Who was the vocalist?
Also, will you be doing similar things in the future?
SUPERB!
I really liked how you set this poem to music and therefore wonder if you might turn your hand to making an equally nice arrangement for The Lamb and The Tyger, highlighting the contrasts, as well as Auguries of Innocence with its various elements.
I won't touch The Lamb because I have so much respect for John Tavener's version but if an ensemble commissioned me to do The Tyger I would.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my comment. I completely understand why you haven't done anything with The Lamb, but I certainly hope that you will do something with The Tyger. Although I like some of the other types of music being done with Blake in mind, I wish more were being done in the way of nice classical arrangements with Blake's work.
When I hear Jerusalem and the like, I can imagine so many of Blake's poems that deserve an equally great musical setting.
William Blake´s, Piper by Bosco. A musical interpretation of some poems of "Songs of innocence and experience"
Bosco - Piper (Live, Ibiza)
Sweet man, I dig it!
Hola, mu nuevos amigos, tal vez esta tarde puedo encontrar el poema de Alberti traducido por Vittorio Bodini... espero tener suerte.
Transcendent! Incredible!
Thank you, my friend. You made my day. Man, I need to update my picture. I look like a baby in this thing, lol.
I am in litreture as my father was ,,,, Literature means the way of living the best ...
I knew songs were poems set to music♥️
We're singing this for choir :)
Masterpiece
Thank you for saying that! It means a lot. So many other people have said that the cello solo is too long.
Sir it's really amazing,i need instrumental version of it.Where can i find,please help me
Thank you Zerrin, you made my day! Here you go: www.jwpepper.com/Garden-of-Love%2C-The/10011043.item#.VE5DJWd0yAg
@drawer308 my highschool vocal teacher is directing the Iowa Opus 7/8th grade girls chior that is singing this and the freshman got to sing it last week for our concert(: it's so beautiful!
This is beautiful.
Looking at the comments I see there is some confusion over the meaning of the words; Google ‘William Blake Garden of love Wiki’ for the whole poem an an explanation of the poet's thoughts, it seems he wasn't feeling 'god's' love when writing this...
there are poets and there is Blake
Thank you so very much!
Where can I download this? I see Alfredreeddotcom but where do I go once I get there?
My pleasure! Thank you so much, and I hope your class goes well while studying Blake.
Good video!
I like to think Blake would approve of this.
Words: William Blake, Music: Rodney Money, performers are from Alfred Reed publishing.
Amazing-please tell me who is the author of this picture/ where I can find it ???Please
Is there more of this ? please say yes
Hopefully one day soon.
I compose all the time. In fact I am conducting one of my new pieces this November based on the beloved hymn "Amazing Grace." The work is dedicated to Bach and will be perform by a college in NC. I really do appreciate your comments and compliments. Each work of mine is like one of my children and it feels great when someone appreciates my work. Especially since I'm such a perfectionist and can tell anyone the significant of each and every little note and rhythm in each piece.
Amazing, please tell me about the picture, who is the author, where can i find it????
Thank you!
Have you heard the "live" version with the full female choir performing it? Search The Garden of Love Rodney Money Live Version.
Well done
Do more Blake or work in general? Thank you for the comments by the way.
@dawer304 I'm not in the chior cause I'm a freshman, but I am in the all state chior!(: I might go to see how awesome it sounds which, from my opus experiance in 7th grade, sounds awesome!
Ever heard of the David Bedford/Kevin Ayers version?
I will have to check it out. Thank you for the recommendation!
@MsMaxTT yup. and just keep trying. there are other chances for another solo in some song. i got this solo because of the color of my voice and since im a mezzo.
@Rodney Money Thank you!