In My Soul (baritone, guitar, cello), from amass (download)

Description

Voicing: baritone, cello, and guitar

Level: 3

Duration: 3 minutes

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This sweet, soulful song is excerpted from Jocelyn’s oratorio amass. The text is a translation by Daniel Ladinsky, from his book Love Poems from God. Rabia, the original poet, was a female Muslim saint and Sufi mystic who lived in Iraq in the 8th century.

Text

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.

Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,

where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,

where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church

that dissolve, that
dissolve in
God.

– Rabia, translated by Daniel Ladinsky.

Composer’s Notes

This tune is heartfelt and warm, and baritones with a wide range will enjoy interpreting this beautiful song.