Joseph Hasper
Joseph Hasper
Composer

Sheet Music

The Kings They Came

SM-000232859
ComposerJoseph Hasper
Lyricist Sara Teasdale
PublisherJoseph Hasper
Genre Classical
Instrumentation Mixed choir
Scored forChoir
Type of scoreVocal score
Duration 3'0"
LanguageEnglish
Difficulty Medium
Year of composition 2015
Description
The text for The Kings They Came is from the poem “Christmas Carol” by Sara
Teasdale. Teasdale (1884–1933) published this poem in 1911 and won the Columbia
Poetry Prize (which was later known as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) in 1918. A 1926
New York Times Book Review described her poetry as musical and lyric, stating “MissTeasdale is first, last, and always a singer.” It is in this spirit of “joyous and unstudied song” (as a New York Times Book Review described Teasdale’s poetry in 1915) that The Kings They Came is presented: the music is unpretentious, tuneful, and—even in the sections that are minor or modal—unabashedly joyous.

Upload date 09 Oct 2015

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