Winner of the Euphonia! Choral Composition Competition. If You Can Walk You Can Dance (If You Can Talk You Can Sing) Zimbabwean proverb

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1 SEA-0-05 Winner o the Euphonia! Choral Coosition Coetition You Can Walk You Can Dance ( You Can Talk You Can Sing) Zimbabwean proverb TBB choir, piano and claves Elizabeth Alexander Seaarer Press

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3 i Zimbabwean proverb NOTE TO THE CLAVES PLAYER: The claves part in this song, which is played during the chorus, consists o a repeating two-measure ostinato pattern. It may either be played like this: Or with the measures reversed, like this: You may wish to alternate between these two pattern variations each time begin a new chorus o the song! * have bass and marimba players available, they may join in during the sections marked "CLAVES," playing the pianist's let and right hand parts, respectively.

4 Commissioned by Farmington High School Friends o Music in honor o Teacher o the Year Scott Cabell dance ( sing) TBB, piano, claves Zimbabwean Proverb (h = 80) With gentle marcato and rhythmic energy Elizabeth Alexander Piano sere senza pedale 5 Seaarer Press 8 smoothly, sere legato smoothly, sere legato betcha! smoothly, sere legato CLAVES Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05 Copyright 00 by Elizabeth Alexander

5 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score Seaarer Press betcha! 1 Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05 NO CLAVES

6 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score 5 yes, (NO CLAVES) 9, then, then, then Seaarer Press p betcha! 33 CLAVES Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

7 37 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score p 5 (CLAVES) NO CLAVES 1 Yes yes, yes, yes, Seaarer Press 5 oh oh betcha! oh oh oh oh oh oh Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

8 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score 6 9 snap ingers: snap ingers: un poco marcato, i,, then dance.,,, then dance i marcato marcato,,,,,, Seaarer Press For perusal, only, betcha!, i, then dance. 61,,,,,,, i,, then Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05 dance.

9 65 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score m 7 yes, m m (NO CLAVES) m 69 Seaarer Press then and p subito, p subito betcha! then, then, then, then p subito, then, then p subito Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

10 8 73 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score Ossia yes, p subito, p subito, p subito, yes, then, then then, then then, then Seaarer 76 Press, then betcha!, then, then, then Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

11 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score CLAVES Seaarer Press 91 betcha! m m m Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

12 10 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score REPEAT AD LIBITUM - AUDIENCE SINGING IS WELCOME! Dest parts may come in at any point during the repeating measures Enunciation o text is less iortant than rhythm (Pretend are claves!) 95 m ( or Small Group),,, m ( or Small Group), i,, then You dance. ( m ) Seaarer Press ( m ) ( m ) betcha! (CLAVES) Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

13 You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score 11 99,, Senza misura lunga: 5-8 seconds, i, i, NOW EVERYBODY TALK, SPEAKING OUT CLEARLY, AND CUT OFF RIGHT WITH THE CONDUCTOR!, Seaarer Press, betcha!, NO CLAVES Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

14 1 10 a teo You Can Walk You Can Dance (TBB, piano, claves) - Choral Score, sing!, sing! (or rehearsal only) sing! 105 Seaarer Press betcha! (How I keep rom singing?) You Can Walk You Can Dance, SAB: SEA-0-03 You Can Walk You Can Dance, SSA: SEA-0-06 You Can Walk You Can Dance, SATB: SEA-0-07 Seaarer Press / SEA-0-05

15 You Can Walk You Can Dance was commissioned by Farmington High School Friends o Music, in honor o the district s Teacher o the Year, Scott Cabell. Perceptive listeners might glean in the piano s introduction and conclusion a ew quotes rom one o his avorite songs, How Can I Keep From Singing? The cooser is grateul to Molly MacMillan or sharing her knowledge and love o Latin jazz, and or her creative spirit. Elizabeth Alexander grew up in the Carolinas and Appalachian Ohio. Her love o poetry nearly eclipses her love o music a passion which is relected in her over 100 songs and choral works, which have received thousands o perormances worldwide. She lives in St. Paul, MN, where her requent commissions include works or orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and solo musicians. A recent McKnight Fellow, she has received awards and ellowships rom the Jerome Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board, National Orchestral Association, International League o Women Coosers, and Ameri Coosers Forum. Her coosition teachers have included Jack Gallagher at The College o Wooster, and Steven Stucky, Yehudi Wyner and Karel Husa at Cornell University, rom which she received her doctorate in music coosition. Seaarer Press betcha! When she is not writing music, Elizabeth shamelessly encourages her teenagers jokes, makes pretty good biscuits, and tends her garden during the three month period in Minnesota that is not winter. She believes she has the best job in the world.

16 Selected Choral Music by Elizabeth Alexander April Rain Song (Langston Hughes) SATB SEA Beore the Bread (English olk prayer) SSSS SEA Blessed Be the Flower That Triuhs (Michael devernon Boblett) SATB SEA Cherish Your Doubt (Alexander) SATB & piano / SSAA & piano SEA / SEA Climb (Edna St. Vincent Millay) SATB & piano SEA Dragon Dance (Elizabeth Alexander) S & piano SEA Die Gedanken Sind Frei (15 5h century German protest song, arr.) SATB & piano SEA The Earth Called To My Friend (Nancy Wood) SSA & piano SEA Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm (Yehuda Amichai) SATB SEA Faith Is the Bird That Feels the Light (Rabindranath Tagore) SSA SEA Fighting Over What We Believe (Alexander) SAB th choir, SATB & piano SEA Finally On My Way To Yes (Pesha Gertler) SSATB & piano SEA Folks, I m Telling You (Langston Hughes) SSATB & piano SEA For So the Children Come (Sophia Fahs) SATB & piano SEA Glen Song (Scott Bates) SSATB & piano SEA Go Out! (John Murray) SATB & piano SEA I Write This Poem Out o Darkness (George Ella Lyon) SSA, lute, violin & piano SEA-0-00 You Can Walk You Can Dance (Zimbabwean Proverb) SAB & piano / TTB & piano.. SEA-0-03 / SEA-0-05 Immortal Love (John Greenlea Whittier) SATB SEA Inant Holy, Inant Lowly (arr. Polish carol) SSA SEA The Journey (Evelyn Dudley) TTBB / SATB SEA / SEA Ju! (Ray Bradbury) SSA & string quartet SEA Lie is not a Garden (Alexander) SATB & piano SEA May This Be a Working Alleluia (Alexander) Children s choir, SATB & piano (opt. lute & truets). SEA Morning Bread (Amy Lowell) SATB SEA or a musician (Philip Dacey) SATB & orchestra SEA A Palette To Paint Us As We Are (Gerald Rich) SA & piano / SATB & piano SEA / SEA Praise Wet Snow Falling Early (Denise Levertov) SATB & piano SEA Reasons or the Perpetuation o Slavery (Alexander) SSAA SEA Spring Grass (Carl Sandburg) SATB SEA They Have Freckles For Everywhere perusal (Alexander) only, SSAA & piano SEA Those Who Wish To Sing Always Find a Song (Swedish proverb) SSS, oboe & piano SEA-0-01 To Make a Prairie (Emily betcha! Dickinson) SSA & piano SEA Tomorrow, God Willing (Garrison Keillor) TTBB SEA Trust the Seeds (Alexander) SATB SEA We Lit Up Our Hearts (Richard Fewkes) Children s choir, SATB & piano SEA We Remember Them (Sylvan Kamens & Jack Riemer) SATB & piano SEA Where There Is Light in the Soul (Chinese proverb) SAB/SATB SEA / SEA When the Song o the Angels Is Stilled (Howard Thurman) SSAA / TTBB SEA-06-0 / SEA-06-0 Why I Pity the Woman Who Never Spills (Joan Wol Preontaine) SSAA SEA Seaarer Press CD: Finally On My Way To Yes Award-winning choral works by Elizabeth Alexander SEA-CD-001 For more inormation about these and over 100 other choral pieces, visit: Seaarer Press ~