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Laurel Hill S.M.

By Aldo Thomas Ceresa

Key
G minor
Type
Fuging tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2009–10
Text
Charles Wesley, 1763

Description

Named for Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA; final resting place of John Wyeth, compiler of Wyeth's Respository of Music, and Repository, Part Second. (I had recently visited Laurel Hill when I began writing the tune in the Fall of 2009.) Laurel Hill was performed by The Art Mob in their Spring, 2010 concerts.


Text

And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?

Wak'd by the trumpet's sound,
I from my grave shall rise,
And see the Judge with glory crown'd,
And see the flaming skies.