Bird, Peter - Night song 21 Chœur 4 voix |
Compositeur : Arrangeur : Editeur : | Bird, Peter (1951 - ) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Chœur 4 voix | ||||
Genre : | Afro-Americains | ||||
Auteur/Parolier: | Bird, Peter | ||||
Langue : | Anglais | ||||
Date : | 2013 | ||||
Droit d'auteur : | Copyright © 2013 by George Peter Bird. This edition may be freely distributed, duplicated, performed, and recorded. | ||||
Ajoutée par peter-bird, 18 Mai 2013 This style of this song is inspired by both Native American and African choral traditions. The Paiute place-names in the text fix it in the lonely lands north of the Grand Canyon: the High Plateaus around the Arizona-Utah border. (Paunsagunt, Kaibab, & Kaiparowits are the great plateaus which frame the country; Kanab & Nankoweap are two permanent creeks which supported small Indian villages.) This song expresses the joy of togetherness on a starry night with gentle breezes in the pines and perhaps a far-off sound of running water. This is a shingled part-song consisting of repeated 4-bar phrases of 5/4. The diatonic pitches are easy to read, and the only challenge is to count correctly until this meter becomes natural. As each voice part has only 4 or 5 distinct phrases (totalling 16 or 20 distinct bars), it is not hard to memorize. It could serve well as a concert-closer (or encore number) in an evening concert. Source / Web : | Fresh Choral Music Online | |
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