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''Morning Heroes'' is a choral symphony by the English composer Arthur Bliss. The work received its first performance at the Norwich Festival on 22 October 1930, with Basil Maine as the speaker/orator. Written in the aftermath of World War I, in which Bliss had performed military service, Bliss inscribed the dedication as follows: "To the Memory of my brother Francis Kennard Bliss and all other Comrades killed in battle" The work sets various poems: * Homer, ''The Iliad'', passages from Book VI (translation of W Leaf) and Book XIX (translation of Chapman) * Walt Whitman, "Drum Taps" * Wilfred Owen, "Spring Offensive" * Li Tai Po * Robert Nichols, "Dawn on the Somme" The extracts are spoken by a narrator and sung by a large choir. Juxtaposing the harsh images of trench warfare with the epic heroes of Ancient Greece, the parallels Bliss draws are essentially romantic, and the work as a whole has been criticised as being rather complacent.〔''Penguin Guide to Classical Music''〕 Bliss himself said that he suffered from a repeating nightmare about his war experiences and that the composition of ''Morning Heroes'' helped to exorcise this.〔 ==Movements== The work falls into five sections, in the structure of a palindrome, with the first movement acting as a prologue, then fast, slow, and fast movements, and the final movement acting as an epilogue. The work includes the respective texts.:〔 * I: "Hector's Farewell to Andromache" * II: "The City Arming" * III: "Vigil" - "The Bivouac's Flame" * IV: "Achilles goes to battle" - "The Heroes" * V: "Now, Trumpeter, For Thy Close" - "Spring Offensive" - "Dawn on the Somme" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morning Heroes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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