Chavah’s Daughters Speak
Composer: James Lee III
Publisher: Subito Music
$29.00
| Movement/Section | Duration: 11.75 |
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From the composer:
"Chavah's Daughters Speak is a cycle of five songs I composed using the text of Lou Ella Hickman. Chavah is the Hebrew name for Eve, the mother of humanity according to the book of Genesis. In this work, I wanted to use texts and thoughts that might have been spoken by women from the Bible who were not given an opportunity to have their expressions recorded in the sacred scriptures. The first song after eve...then what? serves as a type of prologue, which is followed by the absalom’s wife, abishag the shunammite, the wife of matthew, and ending with woman bent with infirmity. In the second song, I tried to evoke the emotions a woman whose husband stirred up an armed and military rebellion against his father who was the king of their nation. She was horrified by his unfaithfulness and during the intensity of one battle, while he was fleeing on his horse, his long hair got tangled in a tree and he ended up being hung from that tree. To his wife, perhaps it was as if he were trapped and entangled in another woman’s arms. The next song expresses how the young woman Abishag, the Shunammite might have felt as she was called to be near King David in the royal palace and help to keep him warm in his old age as he was dying. The music continues with a repeated harmony that suggests the inevitability of the king’s death. Following this, the nameless wife of Matthew the tax collector recalls how her husband was so busy daily working for the Roman empire and how all that suddenly changed once he heard the words ‘follow me’ from Jesus of Nazareth. Finally, the last song evokes the joy of a woman who had been physically disabled for much of her life. This last song, in binary form, progresses from darkness to light and joyful celebration." -
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Pages: 7
Pages (score): 25
Publisher Code: 94010810
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Length: 30.5 cm
Width: 22.9 cm
Thickness: 0.254 cm
Weight: 152 g
