High Flight by Christian Morris Sheet Music for French Horn and Piano at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Christian Morris

Score Type

PDF

Composer Christian Morris

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 32

Arrangement French Horn and Piano

Publisher Hoopla Sheet Music

Level 4

Product ID 1332113

Genre Contemporary

Instruments French Horn Piano

Product Description

An exciting concert piece inspired by U.S. WW2 pilot, John Gillespie Magees iconic poem High Flight. In the opening he describes the the magnificent and exhilarating sensation of flying. In the more contemplative second section he seems to breach the veil between earth and heaven:

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed ofwheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

High Flight is part of a collection of pieces by Christian Morris entitled A History of Powered Flight:

1. Kitty Hawk
2. Dogfight
3. Afterburner
4. Holding Pattern
5. Queen of the Skies
6. High Flight

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