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
p
Gray
hide
Gray hide p
Tenor
Bass
Gray
S.
for rehearsal only
p
hair
hair
T.
B.
hair
hide
p
e - mer - ges
-
ers
mf
rust - ing be -neath
mf
mf
mf
be - neath
the
pruned
the
e - mer -ges from gray mud,
the
mf
e - mer - ges
e - mer -ges from gray mud,
mf
e - mer
-
ges
the
pruned vine -yard
mf
vine
pruned
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yard
vine -yard
your
mp
your
mp
your
mp
your
mp
mp
rows where old
clus -ters turn
rows
to
clus -ters turn to
mp
e - mer -ges from gray mud,
pruned
rust - ing be -neath
rust - ing be -neath
hair
e - mer -ges
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mf
e - mer -ges
Gray
mer - ges
e or Sc
A.
al
8
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mf mf
hide
q=72
e - mer -ges
us
p
p
r Pe Alto
Ian A. Cook (b. 1990) 2012
for SATB a capella chorus
rows
clus -ters turn to
mp
vine
-
yard
rows where old
Text Copyright © 2012 by Sean Fleming Used by Permission Copyright © 2012 by Ian A. Cook All Rights Reserved www.ianacook.com
clus -ters turn to
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p 13
S.
pp
rais - ins.
p
A.
The wicks of
your
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of your
pp
r Pe
B.
rais - ins.
p
ears
p
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cing the fog
pier
pp
p
for a
pp
rab - bit's
death
squeal
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of your
ears pier -cing
p
pp
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mp
cor -
like
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mf
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p
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pp
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squeal
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squeal
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pier
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a
p
cing the fog
p
p
p
tuned ex - act - ly
for
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p
the fog
pp
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B.
pier -cing
us
S.
ears
rais - ins. The wicks of your ears
pp
pp
p
p
rais - ins.
T.
p
chains reel - ing
mf
5 25
S.
mp
pp
re -pe -ti -tious -ly.
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pp
r Pe
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(close to "ng") p
B.
mp
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mf
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S.
meno mosso p
pray
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der
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mf
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for our
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rit.
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ppp
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squan -dered ab - use
a tempo (q=72)
-
squan -dered ab - use
mf
pray
for our
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mf
squan -dered ab - use
pp
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pray
yours
p
for our
pp
rit.
-
a tempo (q=72)
grace.
is
mp
pray
p
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mf
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47
A.
us
a tempo (q=72) pp
pray
p
meno mosso
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a tempo (q=72)
pp
ppp
pp
7 55
S.
me
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chan - ism
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B.
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p
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B.
wis - dom
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to your
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van - ish - ing
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chan - ism
to your
mp
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62
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to your
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p
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8 69
S.
ppp
mp
tracks
A.
ppp
B.
ing
p
A.
B.
p
your
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your
p
wil
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mp
mf
made
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rit.
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have made
us
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mf
your
pp
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mf
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have
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have
your
mf
e or Sc
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mp
us
al
73
S.
ppp
us
made
us
your tracks
have
mp
made
you
mp
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ing
have
ppp
you
tracks
T.
pp
-
der - ness.