Part of Donald Patriquin's World Music Suite. The suite has six different octavos published for children's voices: Cabbage-Tree Hat; Taivas on Sininen; The Stuttering Lovers; Ach! Synku Synku;
Joyful energy, dance-like rhythms, effective handclaps, and shifting meters all come together in this exuberant choral feature that is based on a Buddhist mantra. Repetitive melodies dance freely through
If you have a very talented choir looking for a challenge, this is an absolutely "must do" spiritual! The use of the many variants of the text allows the music to maximize the use of gospel-style
Celtic mouth music, sometimes called lilting, diddling, or puirt a beul ("tunes from the mouth"), is a vocal version of what would typically be instrumental folk dance music. The tantalizing
The second piece in the Six Songs of Early Canada, this indigenous Newfoundland folksong relates the topical story of the perils which beset a local ship, the S.S. Ethie.