Here are adjacent pages from Janice Hamer's Everlasting for mixed chorus and piano - an ethereal, spooky setting of famed British poet Cecil Collin's work of the same name. There are some contemporary composition techniques here, as well as some unique scoring solutions (seen below) regarding the shift of music from one set of staves to another, as the sopranos and tenors divide into four parts, and then return to tutti. Not only was this effective in communicating the divisi writing, but leant an appropriately modern look to the score.

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