Title |
Text |
Duration |
Instrumentation and notes |
Movements and MP3s |
love is the every only god |
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chamber choir |
1. a pretty a day
2. she being Brand new
3. may i feel
4. love is the every only god
5. up into the silence
6. spring!may
7. O the sun comes up-up-up
8. !hope
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In Just-spring |
e.e. cummings |
24' |
treble choir
(children's choir or women's choir)
and piano |
- in Just-spring
- hist whist
- riverly is a flower
- anyone lived
- stinging gold swarms
- who knows
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Four Songs, The Dream and
Old Song
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Dorothy Livesay |
|
chamber choir |
1. People will say
2. It is the fire you love
3. And yet you knew
4. I drink now
5. The Dream
6. Old Song
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Prayers ,Poems and Incantations
for the Earth
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trad. native American
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bible
e. e. cummings
Li Po
Dylan Thomas
Chief Dan George
|
24' |
for chamber choir and treble choir |
1. Incantation 1 (Trad. Native American)
2. Wild Air (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
3. Incantation 2
4. Rise Up My Love (Bible)
5. Incantation 3
6.
Glory Be to God (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
7. Incantation 4
8. i thank you God (e. e. cummings)
9. Incantation 5
10. You Ask Why (Li Po)
11. Incantation 6
12. The Force (Dylan Thomas)
13. Incantation 7
14. The Beauty of the Trees (Chief Dan George)
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A Prayer for the Earth
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Text from:
Chief Seattle
Atharva Veda XIX
Rabbi Abraham Heschel,
Alamsaeen, traditional Moslem
Anonymous
Bible, Deuteronomy 8:7-11
Chief Dan George |
9 ' |
for chorus and orchestra
Orchestra:2 (II+picc)/2II+E.Hn)/1 cl/1 bs. cl/1 bsn/ 1 cbsn
4/2/3
Timp.
Strings
Large Choir and Chamber Choir
(The Chamber Choir should consist of at least 20 singers)
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Disasters of the Sun
|
Dorothy Livesay |
17' |
for choir and gamelan (8 players)
or choir and piano |
Track 1
Introduction
1. O you old gold
2. The world is round
3. Though I was certain
Track 2
4. My hands
5. During the last heat wave
6. Keep out
7. When the black sun
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Of Him I Love
and
A Noiseless, Patient Spider
|
Walt Whitman |
7' |
|
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Echoland
|
James Joyce |
15' |
for chorus and inst. ensemble:
2 grand pianos (with lids up)
5 treble instruments(2 of them must be loud, such as trumpet or clarinet)
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
1 bass instrument
women's chorus (ten or more)
men's chorus (ten or more) |
|
Livesay Songs
|
Dorothy Livesay |
11' |
for soprano and piano |
1. Secret
2. Meet Me at Noon
3. If I Awake
4. Staccato
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Pictures from Breughel
|
William Carlos Williams |
|
for soprano., baritone. and WW Quintet
(fl., ob., cl., hn., bsn.) |
|
Whispers of Heavenly Death and
Chanting the Square Deific
|
Walt Whitman |
6' |
2 sopranaos and piano |
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