Yukon - Bird, Peter

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"Selected lines from early Yukon poems of Robert W. Service were arranged by the composer. Length: 4:40."

◈ Genre / Form Christmas (secular)

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range E2 – A-5

♩ Tempo adagietto (64)

◷ Duration ~7 min 18 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 151

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 37896

Editor Peter Bird

Posted 2015-12-16

License Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

E-4 – A-5

ALTO

A-3 – D5

TENOR

C#3 – G4

BASS

E2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; the silence grows and grows; Vaster and vaster vaults the icy night. I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods; Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods. The summer—no sweeter was ever: The sunshiny woods all athrill; The grayling aleap in the river, The bighorn asleep on the hill. The strong life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call; The freshness, the freedom, the fairness-- … I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods; Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods. The winter! The brightness that blinds you, The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, … I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods; Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods.

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