What Hope is Here for Modern Rhyme

Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Music by Bobby Griffith

 
Grave (q = 55)

Flute           
mp


                   
Clarinet in Bb
  
mp


      
p
 
Harp


                   
                   
Grave (q = 55)
      
Baritone Solo 

                       

Grave (q = 55)
   
    
Violoncello   
mp
© 1978 Bobby Griffith
  
             
2
  
         
 
6

Fl.   

    
      
Cl.           
dim.

       

mf

Hp.

               
               

         
    
mp
Bar. Solo    
What hope is here for mod ern rhyme To him, who

Vc.
     
        

dim. p mf
       
3
10
  
Fl.  
          
dim. mf

        
          
Cl.
 
mf

       
       
      
 
f

Hp.

  
            
            

          
              
mf f
Bar. Solo    
turns a mus - ing eye On songs, and deeds, and lives, that lie Fore -

    
      
   
Vc. 
          
4
 
Allegretto (q = 120)
    
15

Fl.   
 

f pp f

       
            
  pp
Cl.
f

           

Hp.
   
          
pp

Allegretto (q = 120)
   
    
Bar. Solo
         
short en’d in the tract of time?

 
Allegretto (q = 120)
            
   
       
Vc. 
f pp f
 
  
      
5
22
   
Fl.   
   



Cl.
         

             
            

                           
Hp.

    

    
f
         


Bar. Solo 
These mor -tal lul - lu - bies of pain May

                 
Vc.    
  
          
6
29
    
Fl.      
mf

      
 
  

Cl.          
ppp mf

   
          
         


  






   




 




    mf
  
  
Hp.

     



  

       
        
      
Bar. Solo

bind a book, may line a box, may serve to curl a maid -en’s locks; Or when a thou- sand moons shall

       
pizz. arco
    
     

Vc.
ppp
    
7
35 Con moto (q = 100)

Fl.         

ppp

  
Cl.
         
ppp

                             
        
      


      


  


     
f
 
  
  
        
Hp.

     
       
  


Con moto (q = 100)
    

f
     
Bar. Solo    
wane Men up -on a stall may find,

    
Con moto (q = 100)
     
Vc.  
mf
     
     
8
 
41
   
Fl.      
f mp


  
Cl.
        
mp

              

     
          
   








            
mp

   
Hp.
       
    
 

 
         
        mp
  
Bar. Solo     
And, pass - ing, turn the page that tells A grief, then changed to

          
Vc. 
mp
     
    
          
9
48 
Fl.       

mf p

   
               

Cl.        
mf p

  
                 
3 3 3 3

     

      
      
               mf    
pp
 
Hp.

           

    

   
f
        
Bar. Solo   
some - thing else, Sung by a long for - got - ten

        
     
 
Vc.

f mp
   
  
10
55 Tempo primo (q = 55)

Fl.          

  
             

Cl.       
  
mp


 

   
molto rit.
     
 


mp   p
      
Hp.

                     
               


Tempo primo (q = 55)
   
p
Bar. Solo      
mind.

        
    
Tempo primo (q = 55)
               
Vc.      
mp
  
         
11
60 
     
  
Fl.       
mp

 
           
Cl.           
dim.

    


Hp.

               
               


mp

          
Bar. Solo  
But what of that? My dark - en’d ways

               
  
Vc.

dim. p
             
12
  
  
64

Fl.       
dim. mf

 
       
Cl.
        
mf

       
       
   
  
mf

Hp.

               
               

      
  
     
mf
     
Bar. Solo
 
Shall ring with mu - sic all the same; To breathe my loss

                
Vc.    
mf
    
13
  
68

Fl.          

f pp

           

Cl.       
 
f pp

   
      
   

Hp.

f
 
    

 pp

      
pp
           
f
Bar. Solo     
is more than fame, To ut - ter love more sweet than praise.

  
      

Vc.  
f pp