Just to second Andrew's recommendation: Harris's Faire is the heaven' is
one of the high-water points for motet settings of any English poet; and I
dare go on record in saying that I think no one has ever set that
wonderful word, 'overdight', so aptly as Harris does. But then, perhaps no
one else has ever set it. 'How then can mortal mind hope to express | The
image of such endless perfectness?'
andrew
> Please forgive me if someone has already mentioned this
> (since I haven't been following the thread diligently)
> but there is a beautiful motet setting of part of 'An Hymn of Heavenly
> Beauty' by the twentieth-century English composer William
> Harris. The motet is called 'Fair is the heaven'.
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