Certainty of Stone: A Young Person's Guide to the Chorus
SM-000224244
Description
- Composer
- Zae Munn
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Lyricist
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Peg Lauber
- Publisher
- Zae Munn
- Genre
- Classical / Choral music
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Mixed choir
- Scored for
- Accompanying piano, Choir
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 6'0"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 1996
- Description
- Commissioned by the South Bend Chamber Singers to open their May 11, 1997 children's concert, this piece functions as the choral equivalent to Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Text was commissioned from Peg Lauber.
Text excerpt:
We are called the basses. We sing with certainty of stone.
We are called the tenors. Our voices soar like brightest kites.
We are called the altos. We have voices rich as chocolate.
We are called the sopranos. We sing like birds in tallest trees.
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- Upload date
- 10 Apr 2015
Comments
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