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Thrush Song

$10.00
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Song No. 10 From Hymnody of Earth

Text by Wendell Berry
Music by Malcolm Dalglish

The words alone to Thrush Song are so musically rich, vocalists should savor them in the spoken mode before singing. Encourage individual choir members to read the text aloud for the rest of the group. Starting with the eighth bar of the canon, as well as throughout the piece, the choir will arrive at challenging tone clusters that need precise intonation. The “I go amazed” canon needs good tuning as well as a strict metric swing to give weight to the shifting consonance and dissonance of that section. This piece can be powerful even without percussion, and the arpeggiated dulcimer part translates well to the piano.

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