ISBN 0571531369.
Peter Sculthorpe's program
note reads as follows:
'Lullaby is based upon one of
the number of indigenous
Australian melodies collected
by Dr H.C. Lethbridge during
the 1930s and is a lullaby for
children victimized by war. It
opens with several statements
of indigenous melody, the
words lovingly entreating
children to embrace sleep, as
night falls. This is followed
by a short central section
that questions the need for
war, its text taken from
another song in the Lethbridge
collection. The melody then
returns, leading to a quiet
coda, suggesting the calmness
of sleep and, for many
children, the beauteousness of
Paradise.'
The piece is set for
unaccompanied mixed voices.
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