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Donkey
Religious/Christian • 2013 • Lyricist: Gail Brentnall
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For mixed choir and piano
Title by uploader: Donkey
Instrumentation |
Piano, Mixed choir |
Scored for |
Accompanying piano, Choir |
Type of score |
Piano-vocal score |
Key |
E minor |
Publisher |
Gail Brentnall |
Language |
English |
Difficulty |
Medium |
Duration |
3'0 |
My Christmas song, "Donkey", lasts 3 minutes and is a setting of my own words for 4-part choir SATB with piano accompaniment. The slow sustained chords of the 4-bar piano opening reflect the tranquillity of the scene - the starry night and hilly terrain around Bethlehem. The contrasting rhythmical quaver figures at bars 5 to 8 represent the characteristic clip-clop motif as the donkey enters the scene, leading us into the verse, followed by a gentle legato chorus.
In verse 3 a pedal note on A in the accompaniment adds to the tension which mounts as the weary travellers near their destination, with the climax at bars 33-34. Two more renditions of the chorus are heard with a key change in the second leading us to the journey's end.
I hope to have portrayed in the song the donkey's gentleness and humility, as well as its tenacity and strength of character, in carrying out its very important task.
Piano accompaniment
Title by uploader: Donkey (Piano Accompaniment)
Instrumentation |
Piano |
Type of score |
Piano score |
Key |
E minor |
Arranger |
Gail Brentnall |
Publisher |
Gail Brentnall |
Difficulty |
Medium |
Duration |
3'0 |
This is the piano accompaniment to my Christmas song, "Donkey", for which the full score and vocal score can be purchased separately.
Vocal score
Title by uploader: Donkey (Vocal Score)
Instrumentation |
Mixed choir |
Scored for |
Choir |
Type of score |
Vocal score |
Key |
E minor |
Publisher |
Gail Brentnall |
Language |
English |
Difficulty |
Medium |
Duration |
3'0 |
This is the vocal score to my Christmas song, "Donkey", for which the full score and piano accompaniment can be purchased separately.
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