Polychoral music

Lake Zurich Golf Club

The decorations recall those of medieval antiphonals, song sheets or books for monastic and church choirs. The song is for the Lake Zurich Golf Club, Lake Zurich, Lake County, Illinois, mid-twentieth century. The four parts are tenor 1 and 2, baritone and base, with the melody for the tenor 2.

The two views of the one-sided document are to allow for both the top border and the bottom borde to be viewed.  

The two reference antiphonal pages captured from the internet show the two traditional motifs that Seymour was referencing: the decorated initial capital letter, oversized, and the docorative border, respecitively.  

Seymour since the late 1890s was much taken with the Arts & Crafts Movement of William Morris and his circle, and their return to medieval art forms and traiditons of decoration.  Typically employed in his book deisgns, here it is reflected in his recreational life, and shows the emphasis on fostering ocmmunity among firends in the post-industrial revlution reform period and after.  See his autobiography, Some Passed This Way (1945).