Composition: To What Serves Mortal Beauty? (Bird, Melvin Clive)
| Title | To What Serves Mortal Beauty? |
| Alternative title | A Canticle ; A choral study. |
| Creators | Melvin Clive Bird (composer) and Gerard Manley Hopkins (librettist) |
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| Instrumentation | male chorus, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and organ |
| Number of movements | — |
| Keys | Atonal. |
| Composed | 2012 |
| First published | 2015 |
| Dedication | To Harrison Birtwistle |
| Tempo markings | — |
| Metronome markings | — |
| Time signatures | — |
| Average duration (sec) | 720 |
| Number of measures | — |
| Composition types | Canticles, Sacred choruses |
| Language | English |
| Period | Modern |
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