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Donkey

Religious/Christian • 2013 • Lyricist: Gail Brentnall
 
 
   
 

For mixed choir and piano

Title by uploader: Donkey

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PDF, 789.1 Kb ID: SM-000289208 Upload date: 28 May 2017
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.
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Piano accompaniment

Title by uploader: Donkey (Piano Accompaniment)

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PDF, 421.3 Kb ID: SM-000289210 Upload date: 28 May 2017
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.
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Vocal score

Title by uploader: Donkey (Vocal Score)

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PDF, 533.5 Kb ID: SM-000289211 Upload date: 28 May 2017
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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