Copies for sale – wonderful piece by Christopher Tin – shipping included!

Hi Friends, I’m selling 18 copies of “The Saddest Noise” by Christopher Tin, from his “Lost Birds Suite”. It’s a ravishing work of remembrance with poem by Emily Dickinson. Here’s a video of Voces8 singing it with string orchestra (the version I’m selling is the same, but accapella) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFlCIpmRo0
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Adapted from a poem by Emily Dickinson

Between the March and April line—
That magical frontier
Beyond which summer hesitates,
Almost too heavenly near.

The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,
The maddest noise that grows and grows,—
The birds, they make it in the spring,
At night’s delicious close.
The saddest noise I know.

It makes us think of all the dead
That sauntered with us here,
By separation’s sorcery
Made cruelly more dear.

It makes us think of what we had,
And what we now deplore.
We almost wish those siren throats
Would go and sing no more.

An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.

https://www.boosey.com/publications/sheet-music/Christopher-Tin-The-Saddest-Noise/102057

These are extra copies in mint condition and NEVER USED. (1 copy is 3-hole punched.) I’m selling them for $2.00 ea and will cover the cost of shipping, so $36. Email me at and we’ll arrange for payment.