Quantity deal. Chilcott, Bob: Circlesong
SATB/PF
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for upper voices, SATB, and piano, or 2 pianos and percussion (4 players) A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. The thirteen movements mark the different stages of life, from birth and childhood to adulthood, middle age and death.
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Beauty before me/We wait in the darkness (tutti choirs)
- Part 1: Birth
- 2. Song for Bringing a Child into the World (tutti choirs)
- 3. Newborn (SATB choir)
- Part 2: Childhood
- 4. Yaqui Song (upper voices)
- 5. A Child's Song (upper-voice solo)
- 6. Give me strength (tutti choirs)
- Part 3: Lover
- 7. Chinook Songs (tutti choirs)
- 8. Over the Wave (SATB choir)
- Part 4: Adulthood
- 9. Summer Song (tutti choirs)
- Part 5: Middle age
- 10. O Great Spirit (SATB choir)
- Part 6: Old age
- 11. In the house made of dawn (tutti choirs)
- Part 7: Death
- 12. Farewell, my brother (upper-voice solo)
- 13. The sun's beams are running out/We wait in the darkness (tutti choirs)
