Shadows Over a Cradle
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Descripción: A cappella SSAA choir piece by Melissa Dunphy...
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Shadows over a cradle... for SSAA choir
Melissa Dunphy Text by Lola Ridge
3 min 2015 Commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir, Robert Geary Director.
Commissioned for Ancora by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir Robert Geary Director.
(Shadows over a cradle... fire-light craning... A hand throws something in the fire and a smaller hand runs into the flame and out again, singed and empty... Shadows settling over a cradle... two hands and a fire.) —From Sun-Up by Lola Ridge (1920)
Shadows over a cradle... Lyrics by Lola Ridge
Melissa Dunphy
= 50 Soprano 1 Sha dows,
sha dows o
ver a
cra
dle,
sha dows o
ver a,
Soprano 2 Sha dows,
tsss
tsss
Alto 1 Hmm
hmm
o
ver a
Hmm
hmm
o
ver a,
Alto 2
(ossia in brackets)
5
poco un poco cresc.
S1 sha dows,
tss
sha dows o ver a,
sha dows,
sha dows o
ver
a cra dle,
poco un poco cresc. S2 Sha dows,
sha dows,
sha dows o ver a
cra dle,
sha dows,
a
cra
dle,
a
cra dle,
tsss
poco un poco cresc. A1 cra
dle,
a
cra
dle,
sha dows,
sha dows,
tsss
A2 tsss
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tsss,
sha dows,
sha dows
Shadows over a cradle... 2
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S1 sha dows,
fire light,
sha dows,
sha dows o ver
a,
sha dows,
S2 Fire
light
cran
ing...
Sha dows,
sha dows,
sha dows,
A1 sha dows, sha dows,
sha dows o ver
a,
tsss
sha dows
A2 o
ver
a cra dle,
a
cra
dle,
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a
cra
dle,
a
cra
dle,
a
legato
S1 sha dows o
ver a
cra dle,
sha
dows,
sha dows o
ver a
cra
dle,
ver a
cra dle, sha dows,
legato S2 sha dows o
ver a
cra dle, sha dows,
sha dows
o
A1 o
ver
a,
ha
ha
ha
ha
sha dows,
A2
cra dle, 17
S1 fire
light
cran
ing...
A
hand
light
cran
ing...
light
cran
ing...
A
hand
fire
light
ing...
A
hand
throws
S2 fire
Sha dows,
sha dows o
ver a cra dle...
A1 fire
A2 cran
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throws
Shadows over a cradle... 3
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S1 some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
S2 some thing in the
fire,
some thing in the
fire,
some thing in the
A1 some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
A2 some thing in the
fire,
some thing in the
fire,
the
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S1 some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire, and a smal ler
hand
S2 fire,
some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
and a smal ler hand
A1 some thing in the fire,
some thing in the fire,
the fire,
and a smal ler hand
the fire,
and a smal ler hand
A2 fire,
some thing in the fire,
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S1 runs in
to
the
flame,
some thing in
the
fire,
runs in
to
the
runs in
to
the flame,
runs in
to
the
runs in
to
the flame
and
out
a
gain,
runs in
to
the flame
and
runs in
to
the flame
and
out
a
gain,
runs in
to
the flame
and
S2 some thing in
the fire,
A1
A2
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S1 flame and
out
a
gain,
in
to
the flame
and out
a gain
out
a
out
a
S2 flame,
some thing in the fire,
and
out
a gain,
and out
a
gain
A1 out
a gain,
runs in to the flame and
out
a gain,
and out
a gain,
out
a
out
a gain,
runs in to the flame and
out
a gain,
and out
a gain,
out
a
A2
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S1 gain
singed,
singed,
singed
S2 gain
tsss
tsss
singed
A1 gain,
singed,
singed,
singed
gain,
singed,
singed,
singed
and
A2
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S1 Shad ows,
sha dows o
ver a
cra
dle,
sha dows
sha dows o
ver a
cra
dle,
sha dows o
ver a
cra
dle,
sha dows,
sha dows,
sha dows
S2 Shad ows,
sha dows,
A1 emp
ty.
A2 Sha dows, set
tling o
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ver a,
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S1 set
tling o
ver
a
cra dle...
two
S2 sha dows,
sha dows set
tling o
ver
a
cra dle...
sha dows set
tling o
ver
a
cra dle,
two
A1 sha dows set
tling o
ver a
A2 set
tling o
ver
a
cra dle,
sha dows set
tling o
ver
a
cra dle,
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S1 hands
sha dows,
sha dows,
sha dows.
S2 hands
tsss
A1 cra
dle,
a
cra
dle...
and a
fire.
cra
dle,
a
cra
dle...
and a
fire.
A2
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