Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1424607 Composed by Paul Burnell. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 16 pages. Paul Burnell #1005781. Published by Paul Burnell (A0.1424607). Dissolvere by Paul Burnell.Composed 2020 for piano with optional instruments in three parts and optional drone.Duration: 6.00 approx.Optional:  drone on D4 from beginning, stopping at end of  bar 96.  Suggested drone instruments include - violas, 'cellos playing a natural harmonic, organ, synthesised strings, wine glasses. In a large ensemble, those instruments which cannot easily play quietly may be positioned 'off-stage'  - as if playing in the distance.Programme note:Dissolvere is an Italian verb, borrowed from Latin, meaning to dissolve, dissipate, disperse or fade away.Excerpts from 'Ode to a Nightingale' written by John Keats in 1819:Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs;Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fadesPast the near meadows, over the still stream,Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deepIn the next valley-glades:Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?The English poet John Keats was born in London in 1795 and died in Rome in 1821.