Northwest windsong (Peter Bird)
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- (Posted 2011-12-30) CPDL #25246: (Sibelius 5)
- Editor: Peter Bird (submitted 2011-12-30). Score information: Letter, 19 pages, 202 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Poem text and piano part both follow the score in the single PDF file.
General Information
Title: Northwest windsong
Composer: Peter Bird
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2011
Description: The text is a new poem about the wild beauty of the rocky coast which stretches from central California north to Alaska. Length 5 minutes.
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Original text and translations
English text
Rain-coast out of time,
washed by wild water and wind.
Unsleeping watchmen
cypress cling to broken rock;
seal floats along with the tide.
Rivers and mountains and waves in the sky;
Grey is the wind and the rain lashing by.
Road ends at this sign.
Find your own way to go on.
Follow the sea spray
from the bay to open swell,
boat growing smaller each mile.
Rivers and mountains and waves in the sky;
Great is the wind and the rain lashing by.
Eagle in the sky
wheels in the arms of the wind:
master of chaos.
Orcas lead and follow us:
power of muscle and mind.
Rivers and mountains and waves in the sky;
Great is the ocean of wind rushing by.
Still fog after dawn
whispered that nothing is real.
One island, three trees.
Then a squall that lifts the veil:
Roaring, the world is renewed!
Rivers and mountains and waves in the sky;
Great is the spirit of wind rushing by.