Eric Whitacre: Water Night (Collection): SATB: Album Songbook

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty wide-rangingin theme from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and ThisMarriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from this first success to the present day.Eric Whitacre is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor who is held in the highest esteem everywhere inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. His music creates a visceral impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008 the all-Whitacre choral CD 'Cloudburst' released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion Records became and unexpected international best-seller topping theclassical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that 'what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make yousmile'.

This loving and dreamlike work captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep.The piece was inspired by classic Rudyard Kipling: “Oh! Hush thee my baby the night is behind us And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon o'er the combers looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between.” Magical! (Grade 4)

This loving and dreamlike work now available in multiple voicings including SA TB & SAB captures the undulating rhythm of a mother rocking her child to sleep. The text is a classic by Rudyard Kipling: ?Oh! Hush thee my baby the night is behind us and black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon o'er the combers looks downward to find us at rest in the hollows that rustle between.? Magical! New voicings adapted by Emily Crocker.

A setting for SATB Choir A Cappella (divisi: 5 Sopranos 4 Altos 3 Tenors 3 Basses). The text Octavio Paz has been translated from the original Spanish by Muriel Rukeyser.