Running Streams

With lyrics based on Psalms 42 and 43, this flowing, contemplative assembly song is scored for SAB choir with keyboard and guitar accompaniment. The mostly 4/4 refrain begins with a 5/4 measure, a metric expansion that subtly underscores the fluid nature of the text. Likewise, the three verses (also metrically fluctuating) unfold over a leisurely, pastoral harmonic scheme tonally grounded in the subdominant.