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Choral

NightChants (Settings of American Indian, African and Sanskrit texts)      

Mixed vocal ensemble 

Year Written: 1985

Duration: 40:00

Theme: Multicultural/India/Africa/Native American

DEVELOPED BY DUMASTAR

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Commissioned and Premiered By
LISTEN, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, 1985     

Text: American Indian; African; Sanskrit poetry
Love also in love twilight
at the hands of moon
her lover
stars her eyes wide at his touch
oh-happily she abandons
dress and sky

Notes
NightChants is a collection of solo and ensemble works.  The following are choral settings: Love Poems (Sanskrit), Mateka (Rain Ceremony/Chindau), Mafuve (Dance of  Girls/Chindau), The Call of the River Nun (Nigeria), The Song of Bekotsidi (Navajo). The Creation of the Moon (Caxinua), Whatever Place I Come on Trouble (Crow), The Dead Who Climb up to the Sky (Eskimo), and Grace to You (Byzantine) which is also available as a solo publication in the choral catalog under “Grace to You.”
Solos song settings from NightChants  are listed separately in the Song Catalog under 
Nightchants (Songs) and include  Incantation, Lullaby (Sanskrit) and Chililo (Lament/Chindau). They are included in this publication of the full score and are not available separately.

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