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Scoring & Instrumentation
SATB
various solo voices
Alternate Title
NIGHTCHANTS
Year Authored (or revised)
Duration (min)
55
Movements
13
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Description
Composed for the 6-voice ensemble "LISTEN".
Featured by Chanticleer in their 'Sound in Spirit' concerts, these are brief experimental settings to explore the spiritual power of chant.
- Incantation
- Lullaby
- Love Poems
- Mateka
- Chililo
- Mafuve
- Call of the River Nun
- Song of Bekotsidi
- Creation of the Moon
- Whatever Place I come on trouble
- The Dead who climb up to the sky
- NightChant
- Grace to You
First Perfomance
LISTEN, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 1986
Recording
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Text Language - Non English
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Text Source/Author
Some chants are set in the original languages: Sanskrit, Ndau Portuguese, Navajo, and Greek. Some are translations by W. S. Merwin.
Title Number
Ensemble Type
choral a cappella
Genre/Theme
sacred/religious
Instrument
chorus mixed (SATB)
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Chant structures include improvisation, graphic notation. free repetition, and extended vocal techniques.