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==Music files== | ==Music files== | ||
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* | {{Editor|Oliver Barton|2006-01-26}}{{ScoreInfo|A4|3|97}}{{Copy|Personal}} | ||
:'''Edition notes:''' | :'''Edition notes:''' | ||
==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
'''Title:''' ''The Joy of the Singer''<br> | '''Title:''' ''The Joy of the Singer''<br> | ||
{{Composer|Oliver Barton}} | |||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br> | |||
{{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | |||
{{Language|English}} | |||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | |||
{{Pub|1|2006}} | |||
'''Description: '''The Netsilik Innuit | '''Description:''' The Netsilik Innuit ''Piuvkaq'' has a wistful and gently melancholic line in verse. He wants to succeed in hunting, fishing and making songs, but he's not very good at any of them. So here is a wistful and gently melancholy celebration of the not-very-successful, which is probably most of us. It makes a change from heroes and the self-important. | ||
'''External websites: ''' | '''External websites:''' | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
{{Text|English| | |||
A wonderful occupation: | |||
Making songs! | |||
But all too often they | |||
Are failures, failures. | |||
A wonderful fate | |||
Getting wishes fulfilled! | |||
But all too often they | |||
Slip past. | |||
A wonderful occupation | |||
Hunting caribou! | |||
But all too rarely we | |||
Excel at it | |||
So that we stand, | |||
Like a bright flame, | |||
Over the plain.}} | |||
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- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2006-01-26). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 97 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: The Joy of the Singer
Composer: Oliver Barton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2006
Description: The Netsilik Innuit Piuvkaq has a wistful and gently melancholic line in verse. He wants to succeed in hunting, fishing and making songs, but he's not very good at any of them. So here is a wistful and gently melancholy celebration of the not-very-successful, which is probably most of us. It makes a change from heroes and the self-important.
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
A wonderful occupation:
Making songs!
But all too often they
Are failures, failures.
A wonderful fate
Getting wishes fulfilled!
But all too often they
Slip past.
A wonderful occupation
Hunting caribou!
But all too rarely we
Excel at it
So that we stand,
Like a bright flame,
Over the plain.