Chant for a Long Day is inspired by two monophonic chants for women, the Mersiyét from Pakistan, and the “waulking songs” from the island of Barra in the Hebrides. The text is a depiction of perserverance and longevity, a life force out of the distant andunknowable past, balanced for a moment in the present, and then heading for a distand and unknowable future. The words evoke images of physical and spiritual survival common to many cultures, as well as the images o f femininity and womanhood that are also shared by peoples from around the world. (4:30)

Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Instrument

Choral

Pages

8

ISBN

073999572209

Stock code

48004821

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