Commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Australia with financial Assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
How Shall we Sing in a Strange Land?
Words from: "A Song of Hope" by Odgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, from My People, 4th edition, John Wiley & Sons Australia 2008, reoduced by permission of the publisher. Used by arrangement with John Wiley Sons, Inc. and Psalm 1 37:4
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JOSEPH TWIST
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Distant and mysterious (q = c.76-82)
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up my peo - ple
solo U *sustain beneath 7 Soprano ∑ 8 # ww
solo U *sustain beneath 7 Soprano ∑ 8 œœ ww
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The dawn is break - ing
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p with free rubato, espress.
The
world is wa - king
to a bright new day
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none de - fame us,
No re - stric - tion tame us Nor
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Oo How shall we sing? *scattered entries, repeat freely in own time and at various speeds.
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