SATB Choir a Cappella
SKU: HL.14042377
Music Sales America.
Classical. Octavo.
Composed 2008. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30742.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14042377).
ISBN
9788759815038.
English.
Per
Nørgård's
Maya
Dances (-for her
unborn son)
for
mixed chorus SATB
(1979/1992) - English
version.
Original
Danish text by Ole
Sarvig - from the
opera Siddharta.
English vocal version by
Paula
Hostrup-Jesse.
<
br/>The two melodies of
MAYA DANCES was
originally composed for
children’s chorus
and mixed choir with
orchestra, respectively,
as part of the opera
SIDDHARTA (1974-79). The
children’s song
(bars 1-27) was later
incorporated into the
first movement of the
choral work WIE EIN KIND
for mixed chorus from
1979-80 (printed edition
WH
29552).
Th
e presentchoral version
for SATB from 1992,
edited by Ivan Hansen and
the composer, is a
combination of the two
above mentioned songs
from the
opera.
In
the opera the
children’s singing
game describes the sad
Queen Maya’s
longing for a child. She
senses the coming of a
new age and is enlivened
by dancing a fertility
dance for the unborn
prince Siddharta. Two
themes alternate: the
straightforward song of
the children, and the
comment of Prajapati
(Maya’s sister) on
Queen Maya’s
dance.
The Dance Of Maya
