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Shena Fraser
1910 - 1993
Great Britain, Scotland
| S.E. Fraser |
Shena Eleanor [Shena] Fraser (26/05/1910 - 1993) was a female Scottish composer who also composed under her married name of Shena Neame and the pseudonym Sebastian Scott. She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry Wilson, Maurice Sons and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London.
Requiem
| Period: | Modernism |
| Composed in: | 1950 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
"Requiem", published 1950, for SSA chorus a cappella.
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
| R.L. Stevenson (text) |