Night song - Bird, Peter

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"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.<br> 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. Length: 3:45"

◈ Genre → Evening Canticles

♯ Tonart G minor

⁄ Taktart 5/4

♬ Besetzung → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Unterstufe

↕ Tonumfang F – f''

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Takte 59

Textur Homophon

Stimmen 5

Instrumente Accompanied by one drum

Seiten 9

CPDL Nr. 29168

Bearbeiter Peter Bird

Veröffentlicht 2013-05-18

Lizenz Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike

♫Tonumfänge

SOPRANO

f' – f''

ALTO

B-3 – d''

TENOR

c – f'

BASS

F – c'

Drum

d – d

Schlagwörter

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¶Liedtext

Paunsagunt, Kaibab, and Kaiparowits walk under the stars. Pinyon, ponderosa, and bristlecone whisper the wind. Kanab and Nankoweap flow on through the night. Shinumo. Tokawana. Shinumo. Star.