Wally Gunn | The Earth Must Move

The Earth Must Move
2015 (06:00)
Text by Nicolaus Copernicus
Mens vocal ensemble
Commissioned by Brooklyn Youth Chorus

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The Earth Must Move
Mathematicians will not agree
On a method for to reckon this inquiry
Nor considering the ancients who did perceive
Revolutions of the heavens cause to believe
The sun was still
Through observations many and long
Of the movement of the planets, follows therefrom
That they appear now nearer and now farther from the earth…
The earth must move
– from
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)

Instrumentation
Tenors
Baritones
Basses
Soloists

Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Kris Burke, Conductor

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