Lullabies by the River Full Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1843574

Orchestra and mezzo We travel down the Kalpit River from the cold Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, past a waterfall and a calm reach to the dam with its noisy hydroelectric turbines. Then, on the bank, we hear an Inuit woman singing a lullaby: I transcribed the music from a recording: the tetratonic scale is typical of the Inuit: the English lyrics I found in Beth'sNotesPlus, but where they came from I do not know . (Christianity spread among the Inuit from the end of the18th C). On entering North Dakota, we hear a Lakota woman singing a lullaby. Often, N American Indigenous women sing nonsense soothing syllables, as I have written as verse 1, but verse 2 uses Lakota syllables meaning "Your Mother speaks to you. My kind-hearted boy ,go to sleep. Tomorrow will be nice…” A drum softly accompanies. Finally , we travel down the rapids to the Pembina River .

DURATION: 7 minutes.