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Timothy C. Takach
Graphite Publishing
She Tore a Map
Something fun and a bit unconventional – quirky rhythms, easy voice leading, and a delightful story.
SA, piano
This delightful song takes a quirky poem by Naomi Shihab Nye and presents it in fragments that are glued together in well-crafted melodies and independent lines. Your singers will have fun timing their entrances, and the audience is sure to get a kick out of the end. When your treble program needs something fun and a bit unconventional, this is the piece you want!
Commissioned by Graphite Publishing for the 2015-16 Women’s Choir Commissioning Consortium
Blaine High School Bella Voce, MN, Benjamin Henschel, conductor
Bonneville High School, ID, Steve Dresen, conductor
Flower Mound High School Treble Choir, TX, Lindsay Swartwood, conductor
Frontier Trail Middle School, KS, Gretchen Harrison, conductor
Hopkins High School, MN, Philip Brown, conductor
Irondale High School Knightingales Choir, MN, Jason Etten, conductor
North Dakota State University Cantemus, ND, Charlette Moe, conductor
Omaha Northwest Magnet High Treble Ensemble & Treble Chorus, NE, Georg Getty, conductor
Oshkosh West High School, WI, Herb Berendsen, conductor
St. Michael – Albertville High School, MN, Joseph Osowski, conductor
Tiffin Columbian Freshmen/Sophomore Women’s Ensemble, OH, Kimberly Ridge, conductor
Voices Rising, MA, Leora Zimmer, Artistic Director
Composer’s Notes
This poem about an accident involving a map talks about ripping apart and putting back together. So the beginning of this piece includes sections that are mismatched, that don’t necessarily go together. The transition (or lack thereof!) from m. 9-10 should be an abrupt character change. The same is true from m. 10-11, 17-18, etc. As the piece progresses, we settle into musical material that is more cohesive (until the very end!).
– Timothy C. Takach, 2015
Text
Once
by mistake
she tore a map
in half.
She taped it back,
but crookedly.
Now all the roads ended in water.
There were mountains
right next to her hometown.
Wouldn’t that be nice
if it were true?
I’d tear a map and be right next
to you.
– Naomi Shihab Nye (Used with permission)
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