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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

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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