Shine! Shine! Shine!
from a Song of Joys
An arrangement of the second movement of Stephen Chatman's A Song of Joys. The piano accompaniment replicates pitches within an extensive set of Chinese bao gongs featured in the original version. Walt Whitman's text evokes the "great … Read More
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An arrangement of the second movement of Stephen Chatman's A Song of Joys. The piano accompaniment replicates pitches within an extensive set of Chinese bao gongs featured in the original version. Walt Whitman's text evokes the "great sun!" and feelings of warmth and love: "While we bask, we two together." The number, two, is the primary concept of the songtwo lovers, two timbres (voice and piano), two pairs of flowing contrapuntal vocal lines, two additional contrapuntal "gong" parts, two formal sections, harmonic dissonance versus resolution, tutti versus a cappella, and two climactic cadences. Duration: 2:45