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Kathryn Parrotta

CHORAL MUSIC EDUCATOR. COMPOSER. VOCALIST

This setting of an old Appalachian folk song "I Am In Love" is set for advanced SSAA ensemble. The original haunting melody begins in a fragile unison. Other voices join in with heart-breaking crunches, suspensions, and canon, which echo the pain of the woman in this story.
Voicing: SSAA, a cappella
Difficulty: Intermediate-Advanced
Length: 3:30
Available from Alliance Music Publications:
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I am in love, I dare not own it.
The very pain lies on my breast.
I am in love and the whole knows it,
that a troubled mind can know no rest.
Oh, love is handsome, love is charming,
and love's a jewel while it is new,
But as love grows older, love grows colder
and fades away like morning dew.
I wish to God I never had met him
or in his cradle he had died.
To think so fair a lady as I am
should be in love and be denied.
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