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Reapers All With Their Sharp Sickles, The

Product No. SBMP996

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Voicing: SATB, soprano, a cappella
Arranger: Seth Houston

Based on the American eighteenth-century folk hymn "Meditation," the text uses the metaphor of harvest for death and the second coming. A picturesque, dramatic piece, it opens with a lone soprano singing the folk-style melody, builds to layers of singers proclaiming the message, then winds down to let the soprano end the work.