SONGS FOR THE FOUR PARTS OF THE NIGHT
SONGS FOR THE FOUR PARTS OF THE NIGHT
Soprano and Piano
Editor's Note:
The seven short SONGS FOR THE FOUR PARTS OF THE NIGHT use texts by Owl Woman (fl.1880?), a Papago Indian medicine woman from the American Southwest. Taught her medicine songs by spirits of the dead, Owl Woman received hundreds of them during her lifetime. Those used here are part of a longer sequence intended to be sung over a sick person at four intervals through the night. This song cycle, completed in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1983, features understandable and expressive settings of the texts. The style is neo-Romantic and direct, avoiding technical complexities that would obscure either the meaning or mood of the words.
New 2025 edition from 1986 original.
Movements: In the Blue Light In the Dark I Enter I Can See Spirit-Tufts of White Feathers In the Great Night I Am Going to See the Land The Dawn Approaches The Morning Star
Authored (or revised): 1986
Published: 2025
Text source: Owl Woman (fl. 1880)
Duration (minutes): 10
Book format: Score
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