The Oxford Comment

Sweet Day, So Cool — Howard Helvey


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For SATB unaccompanied.
Here Helvey has created a beautiful musical landscape for George Herbert's tender poem 'Virtue'. Each verse begins with a modal-sounding unison figure which flowers into expressive harmonies built on highly-chromatic vocal lines in an artfully-crafted evocation of Herbert's text.
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The Oxford CommentBy Oxford University Press