The Rise 7,6
By Steve Brett
- Key
- A major
- Type
- Folk hymn
- Time signature
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4
4 - Composed
- 2019
- Text
- Horatius Bonar, 1857
Description
Experiment with an unusual pentatonic scale, which excludes the 3rd (mi) and 7th (si) degrees.
Named for an area of Sunningdale, Berkshire.
Text
No seas again shall sever;
No desert intervene;
No deep, sad flowing river
Shall roll its tide between.
No bleak cliffs upward towering,
Shall bound our eager sight;
No tempest darkly lowering,
Shall wrap us in its night.
Love, and unsevered union,
Of soul with those we love,
Nearness and glad communion
Shall be our joy above.
No death our homes o’ershading,
Shall e’er our harps unstring,
For all is life unfading,
In presence of our king.