Choral Choir (Unison) - Digital Download
SKU: A0.973049
Composed by Francis Kayali. Children,Concert,Contemporary. Octavo. 7 pages. Francis Kayali #6252909. Published by Francis Kayali (A0.973049).
A collection of five canons for children or amateur adult choir:
1. Afternoon on a Hill (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUMt21kgv8
2. Le corbeau (lyrics by the composer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnJ03uyqZQ
3. Once, a Dinosaur Jumped in my Bath (lyrics by the composer)
4. Le rêve (Émile Zola)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbL3bUhClLk
5. Come Play (lyrics by the composer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_U662MB6c
The five canons are contrasting in mood, from the juvenile Dinosaur, to the upbeat Come play, to the serious and idealistic statement of Le rêve, to the sinister Le corbeau, to the peacefully contented Afternoon on a Hill.
Owing to their intended audience, all of these canons are at the unison/octave. Three of them (2, 3, and 5) are two-part echo-canons, where the imitative voices begins very soon after the first one (two beats later in each case here).
The other two canons, based on pre-existing texts, adopt the more common structure of following a chord progression that proceeds over several measures (albeit an irregular, 7-measure, elided phrase in Le Rêve).
