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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''The Joy of the Singer''}} | |||
{{Composer|Oliver Barton}} | {{Composer|Oliver Barton}} | ||
{{Voicing|4|SATB}} | {{Voicing|4|SATB}} | ||
{{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | {{Genre|Secular|Partsongs}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
{{Pub|1|2006}} | |||
{{Descr|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.}} | |||
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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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Making songs! | Making songs! | ||
But all too often they | But all too often they | ||
Are failures, failures. | Are failures, failures. | ||
A wonderful fate | A wonderful fate | ||
Getting wishes fulfilled! | Getting wishes fulfilled! | ||
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But all too rarely we | But all too rarely we | ||
Excel at it | Excel at it | ||
So that we stand, | So that we stand, | ||
Like a bright flame, | Like a bright flame, | ||
Over the plain.}} | Over the plain.}} | ||
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- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2006-01-26). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 97 kB Copyright: Personal
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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.
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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.