Coyote Wine

IAC014

by Ian A. Cook 2012

Coyote Wine for SATB choir with divisi a capella

text by Sean Fleming 2012

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IAC014

Coyote Wine

by Ian A. Cook

Coyote Wine

Duration: 4'20''

by Sean Fleming Gray hide emerges from gray mud, your hair rusting at the shoulders beneath the pruned vineyard rows where old clusters turn to raisins.

The wicks of your ears piercing the fog for a rabbit's death squeal tuned exactly like our corroding chains reeling repetitiously.

The reward of civilization is suffering, labored order pray for our squandered abuse yours is unconscious grace.

No mechanism to your vanishing like wisdom bled from an old mind like water swallowing your tracks you have made us your wilderness.

Program Note The poet says “I wrote Coyote Wine after seeing a coyote in the middle of a vineyard while biking through southern Oregon.

Coyotes are one of the few animals that have actually increased their range with the spread of humanity, so I was writing primarily about how our own proliferation helps other animals, that our civilization becomes a wilderness.” He adds “symmetry and order is not the law of nature, but a tool for propelling its chaotic beauty.

The decay of civilization is but a reef for new life.”

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Coyote Wine

Sean Fleming (b. 1989) 2012

q=72

Soprano

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Ian A. Cook (b. 1990) 2012

for SATB a capella chorus

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Text Copyright © 2012 by Sean Fleming Used by Permission Copyright © 2012 by Ian A. Cook All Rights Reserved www.ianacook.com

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-

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pp

19

B.

pier -cing

us

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 S.

ears

            rais - ins.

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pp

pp

p

p

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         

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T.

  

p

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  

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

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  

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S.

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     

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pp

     

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pp

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T.

(close to "ng") p

B.

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S.

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pp

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us

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ward

mp

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mp



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(close to "ng") p

A.

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

 bored

  or

    bored

 bored

 bored

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or

-

-

  or

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-

        

6 38

S.

  

meno mosso p

    

     

pray

pray

- der

A.

p

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der

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     p

ppp

     

pray

   

T.

B.

pray

pray

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- der

pray

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ppp

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un

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 p

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



p

 

        

p

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for our

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un

  

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    

     

un

for our

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