Timothy C. Takach. Twenty Questions. from Where Beauty Comes From

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1 Tenty Questions Timothy C Takach pd donload $10 2part treble voices, piano printed $300 Timothy C Takach Tenty Questions rom Where Beauty Comes rom or 2part treble voices and piano I Paper Cranes (TBB) II Tenty Questions (2part treble) III Beore We Get Dusty (SSAA) IV Where Beauty Comes rom (SATB) Commissioned or Healing and Hope Through Song, a program o the American Composers orum, ith partial unding provided by Saint Paul Cultural STAR Premiered by the Minnesota Boychoir, Mark ohnson, Artistic Director

2 Text: When you re in a hospital bed There s not much to do So you study the numbers, ollos the tubes, ask yoursel questions, like Do elephants have belly buttons Do pandas like peanuts Do you think I ll lose my smile, hen I m a gron up The nurses keep going home every day ust stay or one, then a ne one comes Tenty questions, it s ust a game It says it can read my mind But it doesn t even kno hat I m talking about Don t ant to think about all the things I m missing, all the time I m spending here Don t ant to think, so instead Ho many lavors o ice cream Are there in the orld What ould a red hale look like, in a red sea When you re in a hospital bed There s not much to do So you memorize your arm band, the tune the IV sings Daddy ate a birthday candle ust or un Mom tells me she s seen me do the bravest things You ask me i it s hard to be here in this bed I tell you lie is hard, no matter here you re living it I do kno this No game can prove me rong There is so much happy and sad, so all o a sudden there isn t anything e ouldn t do or each other ulia Klatt Singer (2010) rom the composer: In 2010, poet ulia Klatt Singer and I spent time talking ith some o the patients at the Children s Hospital o Minneapolis and St Paul Our proect as to listen to their ords and stories, and create music rom their experiences Tenty Questions is part o the movement cycle Where Beauty Comes rom, ritten or the Minnesota Boychoir In this song, questions become a un means o escape the yes or no queries rom the electronic game Tenty Questions seem so trivial hen compared to the more ambiguous questions hanging in the air The patient makes up their on questions silly ones to help pass the time Musically, the escapism o making up questions happens in a aunty 5/ meter, hile the / sections bring us back don to reality Timothy C Takach, 2010 Revieed as gorgeous (Washington Post) and stunning (Larence ournalworld), the music o Timothy C Takach has risen ast in the concert orld Applauded or his melodic lines and rich, intriguing harmonies, Takach has received commissions rom the St Ola Band, Cantus, Pavia Winds, Lorelei Ensemble, VocalEssence, the DeBartolo Perorming Arts Center, The Rose Ensemble, and numerous other organizations His compositions have been perormed on A Prairie Home Companion, The Boston Pops holiday tour, multiple AllState and estival programs and at venues such as the Library o Congress, Kennedy Center and Royal Opera House Muscat He is a cocreator o the theatrical production o All is Calm: the Christmas Truce o 191, by Peter Rothstein Takach studied music composition at St Ola College, Northield, MN, here he graduated ith honors He has requent national ork as a composerinresidence, presenter, clinician and lecturer He is a ulltime composer and lives in Minneapolis ith his ie and to sons

3 "Tenty Questions" as commissioned or Healing and Hope Through Song, a program o the American Composers orum, ith partial unding provided by Saint Paul Cultural STAR Premiered by the Minnesota Boychoir, Mark ohnson, Artistic Director Tenty Questions or 2part treble voices and piano ulia Klatt Singer Treble Having un q = Timothy C Takach Piano 5 5 n n or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute n n ç b n b Ó n n When you're in a hos pi tal bed There's Ó P 9 9 n not much to do So you Ó n n n stud y the num bers, ol lo the tubes, ask your sel Ó n or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute Ó n n 2010 All Rights ReservedText used ith permission or more inormation and to order scores please visit TimohyCTakachcom

4 ques tions, like 15 pan das like pea nuts Tenty Questions / ulia Klatt Singer / Timothy C Takach Do you Ó Do think I'll lose my Do el e phants have bel ly but tons legato or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute smile, P p hen I'm a gron up The 3 q = 10 nurs es keep go ing home eve ry or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute ritard q = 8 n day ust stay or one, then a ne one comes 21 n 2

5 2 Tenty Questions / ulia Klatt Singer / Timothy C Takach mind But it Ten ty ques tions, it's ust a game It does n't ev en kno hat I'm talk ing a bout or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute 3 3 says it can read my Don't ant to think a bout all the things I'm mis sing, all the time I'm spend ing Ó 5 5 or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute More un q = 112 here Don't ant to think, so in stead p n 3

6 38 P Ho ma ny la vors o ice cream Are ould a red hale look like, 3 3 there in the orld in a red sea S > > > S > > > n b > n b Ó p n n What n When you're in a hos pi tal bed There's not much to do So you mem o rize your arm band, the Ó P n legato tune the I V Ó n n Tenty Questions / ulia Klatt Singer / Timothy C Takach or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute sings n Ó n n or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute Dad dy ate a birth day can dle 3 legato Ó n ust or un Mom

7 52 legato Tenty Questions / ulia Klatt Singer / Timothy C Takach 5 tells me she's seen me do the brav est things You q = 10 ask me i it's hard to n be here in this n bed I tell you or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute lie is ritard q = hard, no n Ó I mat ter here you're liv ing it n or perusal purposes only Do not use, copy, or distribute do kno this n 3 3 I do kno this this No 3 3 game can prove me 5

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12 Selected vocal orks by Timothy C Takach: Mixed Voices A Depth We Cannot Sound SATB, vibraphone, marimba, large tom A Worshipper and a Man SATB a cappella All the Beautiul Names SATB a cappella All Sisters and Brothers SATB, 2 trumpets, organ And I Sa SATB div a cappella As the Sun loer Turns on Her God SSAATBB div, Sop solo, SSATB soli, a cappella The Darkling Thrush (earthsongs) SATB, SAT soli, a cappella Epitaph SATB, viola Listen to the Apples SATB div a cappella Neither Angels, Nor Demons, Nor Poers (Graphite Publishing) SSATBB a cappella Nubes Oriebatur: the eruption o Vesuvius SSATBB a cappella One Boy Told Me SATB, piano Something There is Immortal SSATBB a cappella Su Rahva Koda (The House o Your Kindred) SSAATTBB a cappella This Alien Landscape SATB, crotales, suspended cymbal, bass drum This Amazing Lie SA(T)B, piano To Live orever SSATB a cappella Tas in the Moon o Wintertime (arr Huron Carol) (Graphite Publishing) SATB a cappella We Are Lost, We Are Lucky SATB, piano Treble Voices Men s Voices And I Sa SSAA div a cappella Cassiopeia SSA a cappella Goodbye, Then SSA choir, Bb clarinet, piano Home on the Range (arr American olk Song) (Graphite Publishing) 2part treble, piano Queen o the Range (Graphite Publishing) SA choir, piano Serenade (Graphite Publishing) SSAA a cappella There is No Rose (Lorelei Ensemble) SSAA, SS soli, a cappella The Streets o Laredo (arr American olk Song) (Graphite Publishing) Unison, TTB, piano Torn Map (Graphite Publishing) 2part treble, piano All Natures, Even Mine TTTBB a cappella Empty TB (opt div), piano, opt dembe Go TB, hand drum, ood block or clapping Goodbye, Then TBB choir, Bb clarinet, piano I Will Hol TBB choir, piano or cello It Is Not the act That I Will Die That I Mind TB, piano Luceat Eis TTTBB a cappella Mad TBB, piano Rough Beast (eremy D ones Male Choral Series) TTBB, percussion Salve Regina (Graphite Publishing) TBB semichorus, TTBB chorus a cappela She Moved Through the air (arr Irish Ballad) (Neil A Kos Music Co) TBB a cappella Things I Didn t Kno I Loved (Graphite Publishing) TTBB a cappella Tas in the Moon o Wintertime (arr Huron Carol) (Graphite Publishing) TTBB a cappella Veni Creator Spiritus (Graphite Publishing) TTBB a cappella What I Have Done (arr Amazing Grace/House o the Rising Sun) TTTBBB a cappella Large Works We Made a Grave or Him, And Her Smoke Rose Up orever (ca 10 ) The Longest Nights (ca 21 ) Where Beauty Comes rom (ca 1 ) TTBB a cappella SATB, piano or string quartet TBB, 2part, SSAA, SATB; piano