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NIGHTCHANTS - SETTINGS OF AMERICAN INDIAN, AFRICAN, AND SANSKRIT TEXTS

NIGHTCHANTS - SETTINGS OF AMERICAN INDIAN, AFRICAN, AND SANSKRIT TEXTS

SATB various solo voices

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


Movements: 13.0

Authored (or revised): 1985

Text source: Some chants are set in the original languages: Sanskrit, Ndau Portuguese, Navajo, and Greek. Some are translations by W. S. Merwin.

Duration (minutes): 55

First performance: LISTEN, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 1986


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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

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