Description

CALL NUMBER – 0201
ALTERNATE TITLE –
COMPOSER – Srul Irving Glick
ARRANGER –
LYRICS – Iglulik poetry
VOICING – Children’s choir, SSAA
GENRE – Sacred Treble Chorus
LANGUAGE – English
SEASONS & OCCASIONS –
ERA – 20th Century
ACCOMPANIMENT – Piano, optional alto sax or other instrument.
PUBLISHER – Earthsongs
PUBLISHER # –
KEYWORDS – Canadian composer, Indigenous theme, Arctic, Inuit
NOTES – No. 3 of set “Three Songs of Light”. Instrumental part “can be played by a variety of instruments
such as clarinet, viola, flute, or oboe”. Original score describes the language as “Iglulik Eskimo”. The
composer compiled the text from the book “I Breathe a New Song: Poems from the
Eskimo”, edited by Richard Lewis and published by Simon & Schuster in 1971.