fermata (SATB or SSAA) - digital download

Dan Forrest

$2.25

DF1013DL

Two modern canons in up to 5 parts, setting a beautiful text longing for singing to begin again. Flexible enough to be sung by SATB or SSAA choirs of any size. Available only from this webpage, and only as a digital download (PDF).

Dan Forrest · fermata (Two Canons in 5 for SSAA or SATB)

Text: (written by a chorus member after his choir had to abandon their rehearsals/performance plans for Dan Forrest's "Requiem for the Living"):

Where did the long pause begin,

our hopeful notes abandoned in disturbed air?

When we return, where will we start?

I cannot find the measure where we went silent. But the notes

know where they are, suspended above in a holding pattern.

Waiting for a trusted hand to wave us into the downbeat.

-Clem Schoenebeck (2020)

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