This style of this song is inspired by both Native
American and African choral traditions.
The Paiute place-names in the text fix it in the lonely
lands north of the Grand Canyon:
the High Plateaus around the Arizona-Utah border.
(Paunsagunt, Kaibab, & Kaiparowits are the great
plateaus which frame the country;
Kanab & Nankoweap are two permanent creeks which
supported small Indian villages.)
This song expresses the joy of togetherness on a starry
night with gentle breezes (+)
This style of this song is inspired by both Native
American and African choral traditions.
The Paiute place-names in the text fix it in the lonely
lands north of the Grand Canyon:
the High Plateaus around the Arizona-Utah border.
(Paunsagunt, Kaibab, & Kaiparowits are the great
plateaus which frame the country;
Kanab & Nankoweap are two permanent creeks which
supported small Indian villages.)
This song expresses the joy of togetherness on a starry
night with gentle breezes
in the pines and perhaps a far-off sound of running
water.
This is a shingled part-song consisting of repeated
4-bar phrases of 5/4.
The diatonic pitches are easy to read, and the only
challenge is to
count correctly until this meter becomes natural.
As each voice part has only 4 or 5 distinct phrases
(totalling 16 or 20 distinct bars), it is not hard to
memorize.
It could serve well as a concert-closer (or encore
number) in an evening concert.
SHEET MUSIC