Winter Lullaby Braden SOPRANO Y MARIMBA

Winter Lullaby For Soprano and Marimba (5 octave) (alternate accompaniment: 4.3 octave marimba or piano)

Carmen Braden

Winter Lullaby by Carmen Braden For Soprano and Marimba (5-octave). Wolfville, NS. 2010. Duration: 4:10 Program Notes:

This piece is a lullaby for the winter season of northern Canada. The singer is singing to a frozen lake, and makes promises about the spring break-up of ice, and the return of the water  season. The inspiration for this piece was the melting of ice on lakes around Yellowknife,  Northwest Territories. Performance Notes:

It is possible for this to be played on piano instead of marimba. If it is performed on piano, all the rolls must be observed, and can be two-handed tremolos, or broken chord tremolos. If a 5-octave marimba is not availalbe, a 4.3 octave marimba can be used, with these adjustments: - measure 27 - 31: 8va Composer: Carmen Braden is a composer from Yellowknife Northwest Territories. She lives there and works from her music business Black Ice Sound. Text:

Winter Lullaby - Carmen Braden Sleep sweet, safe under your blanket of ice and snow. The sky has gone to school and soon will return having learnt a brighter blue. So sleep 'til the spring sights make the scales fall off your sleepy eyes. Soon the sun will set fire to candles of ice.* They will burn through the night and into your hair. They will transform your cold cage of grey and blue and black and white into a flaming funeral, adrift on the stars' mirror. The sky has gone to school and soon will return having learnt a brighter blue. Wait 'til the warm water wakes your wintery wings. Then one day, one quiet red morning when the stars have looked their fill  and dissapeared along with the dark, then you will open your many eyes and see that you are once again free. *candles of ice refers to a specific type of ice in the spring called candle ice that melts into long shards that catch the returning sunlight.