Crescent Moon (Leanne Daharja Veitch)
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CPDL #14951:
- Editor: Leanne Daharja Veitch (submitted 2007-09-12). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 416 kB Copyright: Other
General Information
Title: Crescent Moon
Composer: Leanne Daharja Veitch
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Pagan
Language: English
Instruments: SATB choir, soloists (SAB), and hand drum.
Published: 2007
Description: Crescent Moon is by no means a traditional choral piece. My goals as a composer are to return to the roots of vocal music, and to create music that is for the people - music that can be easily understood and identified with, and that speaks to the heart and spirit rather than to the mind.
This is the first in what will eventually be a trio of songs dedicated to the moon. The text is original.
Crescent Moon was submitted (under a pseudonym) to the ROCS (RMIT Occasional Choral Society) composition competition and won second prize. It was premiered by ROCS on 7th September 2007.
External website: http://www.winikoff.net/music/leanne
Original text and translations
English text
- From the earth,
- Bend your light
- Through the skies
- Through the darkness
- Through the emptiness.
- Warm the earth with your crystal fire!
- Touch our eyes with your light!
- Bend Your light to touch our eyes.
- Let Your shafts flow cross the skies.
- Purest white, Your arms embrace
- cascading starlight.
- Purest white, Your arms embrace
- cascading moonlight.
- Selene!
- Selene!
- Selene!
- White is the Moon.
- Red is the Blood.
- Black is the Night.
- Maid, Mother, Crone;
- Three are One:
- Black, Red, White.
- Maiden of light bless the darkness!
- Maiden of light bless the night!
- Maiden of light!
- Bless the night!