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Timothy C. Takach

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I Thread the Stars

Name: I Thread the Stars
SKU: TCT-I Thread the Stars
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Timothy C. Takach

An ancient text explores all aspects of being human – pride, compassion, truth, anger, love.

Difficulty: 3

Duration: 5-10 min.

TCT-I Thread the Stars

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SATB, piano 4-hands

“I Thread the Stars” was written as a festival piece – a closer for a varied concert. In it, the music beautifully follows the mood of the text as this ancient text explores what it means to be human. The piece features the men’s and women’s sections on their own, and in the midst of a fiery 4-hand piano accompaniment, a beautiful a cappella section stands out, letting the choir shine on it’s own.

Composer’s Notes

We are not a caricature of emotion. It’s okay to feel compassionate and angry, supportive and aggressive, loving and defensive. We spend our days winding our way through all these emotions, and combing many of them at once. We are a complex organism, and there’s no need to define ourselves one specific way.

– Timothy C. Takach

Text

I am the flash of sun on water.
I am the clash of battle swords.
I am the teeth in the sea-shark’s mouth.
I am the blood of wild beasts.
I am the fire in the witch’s hearth.
I am the evening sky ablaze–
The red of serpents’ tongues,

The black of deepest night.

I am a mare that knows no reins.

I thread the stars across the sky.
I am the kiss of lovers’ lips.
I am the mortar and the stone.
I am the song of my homeland.

I am the wind on the sea
I am the bow of every ship.
I am the ocean waves.
I am the foam upon the sea.
I am a lake on a plain.
I am the green of the fairest hill.
I am dewdrop, a tear of the sun.
I am a lily on a still pond.
I am the heir of harmony.
I am a word of skill.
I am the silence of things secret.

I am the roar of the sea.
I am a bull of seven fights.
I am a hawk on a cliff.
I rove the hills, a ravening boar.
I am lightning that blasts the trees.
I am thunder on the mountains.
I am a God that fashions fire for a head.
I am a dragon that eats the sky.

I thread the stars across the sky.

I am the kiss of lovers’ lips.
I am the mortar and the stone.
I am the song of my homeland.

– from “Amergin and Cessair,” Traditional

– adapted by Michael Meade and Erica Helm Meade Used with permission.

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