Counting Time in Central City

Oteri Counting Time in Central City

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Frank J. Oteri Counting Time in Central City (2015) Poetry by Charles Passy for SATB chorus a cappella with claves

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Oteri Counting Time in Central City (Three Poems by Charles Passy for Unaccompanied Chorus - SATB) Commissioned by Central City Chorus, New York City, Phillip Cheah, Music Director Transformal Music 2015

Contents

Program Note Texts of the Three Poems “Daylight Savings”.........................................................1 “The Almost Winter”.................................................10 “Dreaming of Lechón”..............................................19

Poetry © 2013-2015 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP).

International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Score engraved by Trudy Chan, Black Tea Music

About Counting Time in Central City There are several temporal narratives woven through Counting Time in Central City. The first of these is the 35-year history of Central City Chorus which commissioned this work to celebrate their 35th anniversary and gave its world premiere performance on June 4, 2016 at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Since the mid-1980s, CCC has performed a broad range of music from all time periods and has been a strong advocate for contemporary music—they have previously commissioned works by Kristin Kuster, Elliot Z. Levine, and James Bassi, among others, and also gave the New York City premiere of Carol Barnett’s fascinating, completely idiomatic bluegrass mass. The stylistic voraciousness and versatility of the chorus informed many of my musical decisions, such as the incorporation and melding of techniques, scales, and rhythms with origins in medieval Europe, East Asia, and Latin America to set a group of three quintessentially New York vernacular poems.

The number 35 serves as an important and perhaps overly obsessive grounding for my music. All the metronome markings are multiples of 35 and the score is even notated on exactly 35 pages! More importantly, the key formulations I made about pitch and meter are rooted in this number which has resulted in an elaborate purely musical narrative involving highly regulated pitch stratifications calculated to compliment metrical patterns precisely pulsed in metronome markings which are all proportionally related to each other and are all multiples of 35. (These different beats come together only once, in the last movement, setting the words “the conceit that time counts (and can be counted),” a phrase that is echoed in the title of the composition.) Although the music I have written is aesthetically very different, my way of thinking about meter and pitch is deeply influenced by Elliott Carter (1908-2012), a composer whose life (spent mostly in New York City) spanned 105 different years (which, as luck would have it, is also a multiple of 35) and who was an avid poetry reader and setter of verse. I’m deeply honored that this received its first performance at the same venue where Carter’s entire musical output for chorus—composed mostly when he was in his 30s—was performed in his presence in honor of his centenary in 2008.

To further clarify my own compositional processes: in the first movement, the pitches in each seven-beat measure are restricted to only five choices—7 x 5. The music is not pentatonic in an orthodox sense because, although no more than five pitches can ever be together in any single measure (with one exception, more on that later), there can be a different group of five from measure to measure. Then in the second, each five-beat measure can contain any pitch from a full sevennote scale—5 x 7. But in the last movement, there’s a twist. Each measure contains just six notes (a diatonic scale missing a note) and is (mostly) in 6/8 rhythm—6 x 6—which comes out to 36. The 35th season of Central City Chorus is the sixth with its current music director, Phillip Cheah, an extraordinary singer who together with my wife, keyboardist Trudy Chan, has premiered both of my song cycles for solo voice and piano. So I thought that his 6th year with CCC should also be celebrated. But this idiosyncratic musical rendering of the number 36 is also a nod to CCC’s future beyond this season which begins right after the concert on which this music will premiere and which is why it is only one of the three movements in which there are meter changes. After all, they will undoubtedly be singing a wide variety of music in the years to come!

Charles Passy’s three poems about the passage of time are chock full of their own narrative implications and his words have had a very direct impact on my music.

Septuple time (7/8), which sounds slightly too short, seemed particularly apt for a setting of his poem “Daylight Savings.” Similarly, I used a slowly moving quintuple meter (5/4), which sounds somehow too long, to further accentuate the wistfulness of “The Almost Winter.” The final poem, “Dreaming of Lechón,” cried out for Latin rhythms as well as the use of a pair of claves, a hand percussion instrument that is ubiquitous in salsa. Passing allusions in the poems to “The Star Spangled Banner” and “La Isla Bonita” demanded very specific musical interpretations; upon occasion, other words suggested that the rules of the musical narrative I outlined above sometimes needed to be broken. E.g. although I had set up a rule for myself that I could not change the five pitches I was using until the end of a measure in my setting of the first poem, I could not “discount the possibility of miracles.” Similarly, to convey having “missed the point,” I cheated and added a seventh note in a measure that was only supposed to contain six, etc.

Finally there’s a deep personal narrative behind all of this. I was approached by Phillip Cheah to write a piece for Central City Chorus’ 35th season in part because they wanted to sing something written for them by a New York City-based composer since they specifically wanted to celebrate their place in the New York City musical landscape. I’ve lived here all of my life; I actually grew up in Midtown Manhattan—which is the de-facto center of this central city. When pondering what text I should set, it immediately was clear to me that the words should also be by a New Yorker. Charles Passy grew up literally around the corner from me. When Central City Chorus made its debut 35 years ago, Charles and I were preparing to graduate from the High School of Music and Art and both sang in the school’s Senior Chorus. He was an aspiring journalist whose greatest joy was writing poetry, while I was an aspiring composer who dabbled in journalism mostly as a way to advocate for things I was passionate about. We both wound up staying in Manhattan and attending Columbia University. Though much has changed over the course of the three and half decades since then, much has remained the same. Now, when I am not writing music, I am writing about music, talking about it, or editing NewMusicBox, the web magazine from New Music USA. Charles is a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal whose articles on topics ranging from personal finance to music, food, and drink have appeared in many publications over the years, but my favorite writings of his are still his poems though I had never set them before.

Composing Counting Time in Central City has offered me an invaluable opportunity to finally respond the best way I can to some of his poetry and to reflect on a friendship that has now lasted much longer than 35 years.

— Frank J. Oteri (August 2015)

Poems by Charles Passy Daylight Savings

You misstate the difference. In the same way you discount the possibility of miracles. If it matters, the evening will make note of the memory. Of a place that was warmer. Of a time when the sky shrugged. There’s a redness to the apple, yes?

But there’s also a flatness to one too many landlocked cities.

Elmira, the city of long vowels. Binghamton, the city of Mondays.

Plattsburgh, the city that never mattered. Until such time it did.

I will visit them all, eventually. When the sun forgets to remember.

We begin with the basics: brown bread, a cup of oolong tea.

We return with the essentials: worn chessboards, untied shoelaces.

Connect the dots and you know everything to know about what’s stored in the root cellar. And about the onset of darkness, too.

© 2013-2015 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

The Almost Winter

We came to the reckoning at half past eleven.

As if all truth is divvied into the stuff we collect in the back of our bedroom closets.

The morning is whole, warm and wise, which means it’s best served in a souvenir mug.

To deny this daily bread is to ask for forgiveness.

We stumbled upon Jesus in the beginning of spring.

Not the real Jesus, of course, but the stuffed version sold in the dollar stores that blind men frequent.

The alleyways are known for their perpetual kindness, so it’s best to visit them at first light.

You will understand this, eventually and then forever.

We returned to zero long before it became the fashion.

Like the stuff of tabloid fodder, or, better yet, like dogs on a salt-licked beach, there to devour the sun.

The rockets have all the red glare they could muster; it’s quite possible their best years are behind them.

This is not a fact so much as a point of departure.

© 2013-2015 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Dreaming of Lechón

Mi abuela, mi corazón, a million miles of sand, and yet this?

To have made one’s way back to la isla bonita is to have missed The point. It is not about the contour of the sun-washed shell Or the rhythm of the rum. It is about how you live your life away From this troubled shore. To pretend the day is done when It is not even medianoche? This is the American lie, the conceit That time counts (and can be counted). It is why the hairdresser Always matters, teasing black strands into black magic, Asking if there is a better way to craft a country. The answer, Inevitably, is tal vez. Because this nation is the maybe nation.

So let us sound the bell, scrape the güiro, dance a thousand Pagan dances. Let us eat the overripe papaya – so much fruit, So few regrets. The point, mis chicas, is that our moment Has passed – or it’s still to come. This measuring of meaning In each shake or sway of the hips is like the laugh of so many Flowers of mahogany. You should know better. You did Know better. But you chose the obvious return, a ride taken On a different driftwood raft. Oh, la playa, la playa, so cruel And still so oddly perfect. What did el hombre say? You can’t Go home again. The truth is like that, full of sand and tears.

© 2013-2015 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Commissioned by Central City Chorus, New York City, Phillip Cheah, Music Director

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From Counting Time in Central City. Poetry © 2014 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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brown

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bread,

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From Counting Time in Central City. Poetry © 2014 by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

œ

re -

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8

° mf˙ & 45

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turn

with the

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with the

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turn

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¢

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and

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j œ

f

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

9

° <n>œ & 52

you

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¢

{

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bœ

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to

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ry - thing

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to

know

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<n>œœ

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to

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what's stored

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know

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root

to

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54

root

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ry - thing

° <n>œ #œ & J œ root

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eve -

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∑

(q. = q)

too.

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too.

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∑

‰

∑

too.

too.

œ #œ

‰ #œœ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

∑ 1'53.9"

10

2. The Almost Winter ° 5p &4 œ ˙ q = 70

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Kbd Reduction (rehearsal only)

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j b œ b œ bb˙˙ œœ œœ 4

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

<n>œœ bœ œ

11

° bmfœ bœ œ œ œ Œ & 7

Ó

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œ

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Ó

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all

half past e - le - ven. mf

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half past e - le - ven.

mp

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? œ™ bœ b˙ ¢ J

& ‹

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re -

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& bœœ bœœ bœœ bœœ bœ ™ œ ? œ™ bœ bb˙˙ J

° pœ & 10

all p

& bœ all (mf)

¢

& œ ‹ back ? bœ

(mf)

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back

bœ

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of

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3 3 bœ œ œ bœ œ œ bœ œ œ

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if

all truth is

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in the

j œ œ œ œ bœ bœ 3

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clo - sets.

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our bed - room

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in the

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mp

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

12

° & #˙ 13

˙

whole,

warm

& b˙

whole,

¢

and

wise,

˙

warm

and

<n>˙ ™

œ œ

˙™

warm

and

œ

wise,

whole,

warm

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wise,

˙ n ˙˙

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{

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nir

mug,

16

& œ

nir

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? œ

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nir

mug,

& œœœ ? œ

Œ

˙˙ ™™ ˙™ ˙™

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which

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which

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means

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it's best served

in

which

means

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in

a

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in

a

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n˙ ™ n ˙˙ ™™

œ

n˙

° & œ

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it's best served

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to

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give

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a

œ œ œ œ

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mf

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p

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wise,

˙

? b˙

{

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& b˙ ‹ whole, ? #˙ & b b˙˙ b˙

¢

nœ

˙™

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

‰ œœ ™™

‰ ‰ ‰

13

° Ó &

(Smaller group)

19

˙™

mp

Œ ˙

bœ bœ œ œ

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stum - bled u - pon

(Smaller group)

j œ bœ

mp

& Ó

‰ œ

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¢

bmfœ bœ We

?

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Ó & Ó ?

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22

gin - ning

& œj œ™

bœ bœ ™ & J ‹ gin - ning ? œJ œ™ ¢ gin - ning

{

gin - ning

j ™ & bœœœ bœœœ ™™ ? œJ

stum -

bled

Ϫ

bœ b˙

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u - pon

bœ œ

Œ œ

œ̇

b˙ bœ b˙

˙

of

spring.

bœ

˙

Œ

œ b˙

Œ

Œ

bœ

3

bœbœ œ bœ œ bœ œ œ bœ

˙

the

real

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the

real

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spring.

of

spring.

œ bœœ

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in the be -

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in the be -

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mf

<n>œ b œœ bbœœœ œ

bœ bœ

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œ

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the

real

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bœ œœ

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Œ

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bœ bœ

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bbœœœ œ

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in the be -

j ‰ bœ bœ bœœ b œœ œœ œ ‰ <n>œJ bœ bœ

mf

˙

bœ

<n>œ bœ bœ ‰ J œ

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3

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of

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3

bœ

-

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bœ œ bœ œ ‰ bœ œ <n>œ J

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p

in the be -

mf

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stum - bled

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bœ

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We

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bœ bœ J

(Smaller group)

™ ‰̇ œJ œ œ bœ bœ ∑

° œ œ™ & J

j œ œ œ bœ

œ b˙

∑

p

3

stum - bled. We stum - bled.

(Smaller group)

& Ó ‹

mf <n>œ bœ ‰ bœj bœ œ

pp

œ bœ of

Œ Œ Œ

course,

bœ bœ of

course,

of

course,

œ

œ

œ

œ

of

course,

bbœœœ

Œ

bœœœ

bbœœœ

œ

Œ

œ

œ

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14

° Œ & 25

œ bœ b˙

but

& Œ bœ

but

the stuffed

œ

{

& Œ ? Œ

˙

° & œ œ™ 28

stuffed

ver - sion

bœ

‰ Ó ‰ Ó

{

‰ Ó

fre - quent.

œœ ™™

™ bœœ ™

sold

œ bœ

sold

the dol

-

œ œ œ in

the dol

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œ bœ œ

in

the dol

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ver - sion

sold

in

the dol

b˙˙˙

bœœœ

bœœ œ

bbœœœ

bœœ bœœ bœœ œ bœ œ

˙

œ

bœ

bœ

bœ bœ bœ

-

lar

œ bœ bœ bœ

stores that

blind men

bœ bœ

œ bœ

bœ bœ

œ

lar

stores that

œ

blind men

œ bœ

lar

stores that

blind men

lar

stores that

blind men

œ bb œœ

bb œœ bœœ

bœ bœ bœœ bœ bœ

bœ

œ bœ bœ

bœœ œ

bœœ bbœœ

‰ bœj bœ bœ bœ bœ œ bœ bœ œ bœ bœ œ œ bœ ™

(Tutti)

mf

‰

The al - ley ways are known for their per - pe - tu - al kind - ness,

& bœ œ™ ‰ Ó ‹ fre - quent.

& bœœ ? bœœ

œ

in

œ

œ bœ bœ bœ bœ bœ

the stuffed

fre - quent.

? œ bœ ™ ¢

œ

˙

sold

œ

˙

fre - quent.

& bœ œ ™

œ

ver - sion

œ bœœ bbœœ b œ bœ

ver - sion

the stuffed

bœ & Œ bœ ‹ but the ? Œ bœ bœ ¢ but

bœ bœ bœ bœ bœ bœ

‰ œj bœ bœ bœ bœ œ nœ bœ œ œ œ bœ bœ œ ™

(Tutti) mf

(Tutti)

‰ Ó

b˙ ™

‰

b˙ ™

‰

The al - ley ways are known for their per - pe - tu - al kind - ness,

p

œ

˙

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pe

(Tutti)

œ

pe

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tu

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œ -

‰ bœœj bbœœÓ bbœœ bbœœ bbœœ œœ ˙˙ mf

bœ

œ

˙

p

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‰ Ó

Ϫ

‰

al

œ

tu

-

œœ

bœ œ bœ bœ œ œ nœœ b œ œ œ œ bœ bœ œœ ™™ ™ ( bœ ) bb ˙˙ ™ œ

œœ

al

Ϫ

kind - ness.

kind - ness.

p

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

bœœ ™™

‰ ‰ ‰

15

° bmpœ ™ & 31

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first

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ver.

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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16

° & 37

&

∑

mf

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fore

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ro

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Œ Œ

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œ œ

œ Ó œ

œœ bœœ bœœ Œ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

œ ‰ J

17

° Ó & 43

Œ

& Ó

Œ bœ

Œ

Œ

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like

dogs

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™ ‰ ˙ & bœ œ œ ‹ bet - ter yet, like ? Ó Œ Œ œ ¢

like

{

& Ó

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° & ˙ 46

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Ϫ

Ó

sun.

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sun.

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sun.

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on

a salt - licked beach,

there

to de - vour the

there

to de - vour the

there

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there

to de - vour the

œ œ œ œ bœ œ

j ‰ œ œ œ œ œ bœ

bœ bœ bœ œ œ bœ

bœ ‰ bœ bœ bœ œ œ J

dogs

on

a salt - licked beach,

dogs

on

a salt - licked beach,

like

dogs

on

a salt - licked beach,

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j œ ‰ œ œ œ bœ œ

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3

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they could mus - ter.

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they could mus - ter.

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bœ œ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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18

° & 49

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& Ó

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

19

3. Dreaming of Lechón SOPRANO

° 6q. = 70 (e ∑= 210) &8

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mi co - ra - zón,

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

‰ œœ œœ

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20

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mi co - ra - zón,

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13

la

is - la bo - ni

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to have missed the point.

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to

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la

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˙

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is

j œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ≈J

a - bue -

la,

mi co - ra - zón.

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a - bue -

la,

mi co - ra - zón.

It's

œ œ J

> œ j œœ œœ J

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> ‰ œj ‰

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> ‰ œ Œ™

> œ

‰ œ œ

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j ‰ œœ œœ œœ œœ ≈ œœ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

21

° œ & 17

œ œ J

not

not

¢

& œ ‹ not

{

/

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not

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a - bout

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a - bout

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j œœ

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∑

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j œ œ j œ œ

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& œ

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the rum.

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rhy - thm of

the rum.

21

œ œ œ œ J

œ

rhy - thm of

& œ

œ J œ œ œ œ œ œ œ J

It

is

a - bout

how

you live

your

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life

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is

a - bout

how

you live

your

life

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is

a - bout

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your

life

a - way from this

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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#œœ

22

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trou - bled

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25

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/

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shore.

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∑

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(e = e)

4 4 4 4

∑

mi co - ra - zón,

mi co - ra - zón,

‰

Ϊ

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mi co - ra - zón,

a - bue -

œ ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ J

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when

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mi co - ra - zón,

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is

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la,

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<n>œ œ <n>œ œ J the day

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a - bue -

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done

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29

mf

is

œ <n>œJ <n>œ œ <n>œ <n>œ ™

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> ‰ œj

> ‰ œ

> œ

‰

∑ œœ J

œ ‰ œœ œœ œ œœ ‰

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4 4 4 4 4 4

° 4 ff œ œ œ œ œ œ &4 œ 33

(q = 105)

This

is

the

A - me - ri - can

4 &4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ

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˙ lie,

is

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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24 38 (q. = 70)

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

° œ™ &

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44

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26

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Ϫ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

° ffœ & 56

So

& œ ff

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Ϫ let

us

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let

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us

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mi co - ra - zón,

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27

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Œ > œ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

Œ Œ

‰

28 64

° œ & so

& œ so

much

fruit

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fruit

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68

Mi

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la,

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‰

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

° œ #œ ™ & 72

still

to

&

j #œ

come.

∑

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‰ #œj 44 #œ #œ #œ œ #œ ™ #œ ™ #œ

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each shake

(Tutti)

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° j <#> œ & #œ #œ 75

‰ œ 44 #œ œ #œ #œ #œ ™ œ ™ #œ J (q = 105)

4 œ #œ #œ #œ ‰ 4

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like the

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sway of

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like the

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Œ ∑

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#œœ

29

30

° œ #œ #œ #œ #œ #œ œ #œ œ #œ & J 78

j & #œ #œ #œ œ

so ma - ny flo - wers of

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(q. = 70)

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° & œ

j œ œ

84

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& œ

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la,

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diffe - rent

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raft.

‰ œ bœ bœ bœ ‰

4 4

‰ bœ œ bœ bœ ‰

4 4

la,

>j œ

œ J

j œ

Ϊ

raft.

drift - wood

> œ

œ

-

œœ

bœ ™

œ bœ J

a - bue

‰

drift - wood

a - bue

bœ

Mi

‰

Ϫ

-

j œ œ

> œ ˙™ ˙™

bœ ™

a - bue

œ œ

Ϫ

Mi

ride

Mi

œœ

œ

b œœ

œ

œœ

j bœ bœ

> œ

˙™

co - ra - zón,

œ™ bœ ™ diffe - rent

‰

œ

co - ra - zón,

a

> œ

ride

mi

on

co - ra - zón,

a

œ

> œ

Ϫ Ϫ

‰ œ

˙™

œ

œ

ta - ken

& ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ ‹ mi co - ra - zón, ? ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ ¢ ‰

turn,

la,

j œ œ œ œ

mi

‰

j œ œ™ re - turn, j œ ‰ œ

j œ œ œ œ

& œ

Ϫ

31

mi

co - ra - zón,

mi

co - ra - zón,

‰

> œ

‰

bœ bœœ bœœ b œ bbœœ

bœœ ™™

> œ

Ϊ

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

‰

4 4 4 4

‰

4 4

32

° 4 &4 90

(q = 105)

4 &4

∑

∑

∑

∑

∑

∑

4 & 4 bœ bœ bœJ bœ bœ bœ bœ b˙ ‹ Oh, la pla - ya, la pla -

ff ? 4 bœ œ bœJ œ bœ bœ œ ¢ 4

{

Oh,

la

> 4 / 4 Ϫ

4 & 4

pla - ya,

> Ϫ

> œ

la

-

> œ

Œ

ya,

-

bœ bbœœ bbœœ œ

> œ

b˙ ˙

r & bœ œ bœ ™ ® œj bœ bœ ™ ® bœ bœ bœJ ™ ≈ Œ

‰

& <b>œ ‹ ? <b>œ

¢

{

/

&

Œ Œ

Œ Œ

Oh, so

Œ Œ

> > Œ œ œ r™ ® j b œ œ œ bœ bœ ™ ® bœ bœ bœ Œ

? <b><b>œœ

Œ

Ó

ya

-

> Ϫ

> Ϫ

bœ ™ b œ™

bœ œ

Ó

la pla - ya, la

pla

-

la

pla

-

bœ œ bœJ œ bœ bœ œ ˙ > œ™

bœ ™ J

≈ Œ

pla - ya, la

> Ϫ

so

cruel.

> œ

∑ œ bœ bœ bœJ

∑

bœ bœ bœJ bœ bœ bœ bœ b˙ Oh,

cruel.

∑

cruel.

Oh,

so

œ bœj bœ

∑

mf

Oh, so cruel. Oh, so cruel.

bœœ J

ya

-

pla

Œ

œ bœ

∑

pla

la

œ bœ J

bœ

‰ œj bœ ™

bœ

∑

? 4 bbœœ bœœ bbœœ bœœ J 4

93

˙

pla

ya,

-

∑

ff

° &

la

‰ bœj bœ ™

œ

ff

Ó

> œ

bœ bbœœ bœœ bbœœJ bœœ bbœœ bbœœ œ

Œ b˙ ˙

œ ‰ j bœ

bœ ‰ œj > œ

ya,

la

ya,

la

> œ

Œ

∑

œ bœ

From Counting Time in Central City. Poetry © 2013 (revised 2015) by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

‰ bœœ J

33

° & 96

∑

Oh,

& bœ ™ ‹ pla ? bœ ™

{

pla

/

> Ϫ

° bœ ™ & J 98

& bœJ ™

cruel.

bœ

-

ya

-

ya

œ

> Ϫ

{

? bbœœ bœœ

so

cruel.

Oh,

so

so

cruel.

Oh,

so

cruel.

Oh,

so

r™ ® j b œ œ œ bœ bœ ™ ® bœ bœ

Œ

Œ

Œ

> œ r bbœœ ™™

> œ

Œ

so

> œ

Œ

cruel.

bbœœ

bbœœ

bœœ

bbœœ

® bœœj

Œ

bbœœ

bœœ ™™

® bbœœ

Ó

∑

∑

≈ Œ

Ó

∑

∑

la

≈ Œ

bœ bœ bœ b˙ ya,

la

pla

pla - ya,

la

pla

> Ϫ

bbœœ bœœ J

-

Ó

bœ bœ œ > œ

bœ bbœœ bbœœ œ

œ

-

-

-

-

˙ Œ b˙ ˙

> œ

ya,

bœ

‰ bœj bœ ™ ‰ œj bœ ™

ya,

> œ

6 8 6 8 œ bœ J

6 8

œ bœj bœ

6 8

bœ

la

pla

-

ya

so

cruel.

la

pla

-

ya

so

cruel.

Œ

∑

œ bœ

bœœ

Ó

≈ Œ

& bœ bœ bœJ bœ ‹ Oh, la pla ? bœ œ bœJ œ ¢ > / œ™ ™ & bbœœJ ™

Oh,

Œ

bœ

œ bœ J

bœ œ

cruel.

Œ

j bœ bœ

œ

so

Œ

cruel.

∑

œ™ ® bœ

bœ

so

cruel.

Oh,

Oh,

œ bœ J

bœ

&

? bbœœ ™™

f

∑

&

¢

j bœ ™ b œ ® b œ b œ bœ R f

‰ bœœ J

> Ϫ

bœ ™ b œ™

> Ϫ

bœ œ

∑

> œ

œ bœ bœ b œ J

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

6 8 6 8 6 8

34

° 6 ‰ &8 101

(q. = 70)

œ

and

still

so

6 & 8 ‰ bœ bœ bœ mp

and

still

so

6 & 8<b>œ bœ bœ bœ ‹ and still so mp ? 6<b>œ bœ bœ bœ ¢ 8 mp

{

6 / 8 6 & 8 ‰

? 6<b><b>œœ 8

° bœ & 104

say?

& bœ

and

still

œ bœ

œ bœ

mp

bbœœ

bbœœ

Ϊ

‰

{

?

odd - ly

œœ

‰

You

bœ

- fect.

œœ ™™

™ bbœœ ™

™ bbœœ ™

∑

bœ ™ b œ™

can't

go

home

œ bœ bœ

can't

go

∑

mf

can't

go

bœ bœ bœ

Ϊ

You

can't

bœœ

bœœ

bbœœ

bœ bœ

bœ bœ

bœ bœ

mf

go

Ϊ Ϊ

What did

mf

bœ

el

hom - bre

œ™ bœ ™

œ bœ el

hom - bre

∑ ∑

Ϊ

bœ bœ mf

bœ J a

home

home

bœ J

home

œ™ bœ ™

œ bœ

What did

bœ J

œ ∑

mf

Ϊ

bœ bœ bœ bœ

∑

∑

per

bœ

Ϊ

- fect.

œ bœ bœ bœ

You

& bbœœ

bœ ™ bœ ™ per

œ bœ

bœ bœ

- fect.

bœ ™ bœ ™

odd - ly

bbœœ

- fect.

per

œ bœ

bœœ

Ϊ

œ™ bœ ™

odd - ly

mf

∑

per

œ bœ

You

? /

odd - ly

Ϊ

say?

¢

∑

so

bbœœ

bœ

‰

& ‹

œ™ bœ ™

œ bœ bœ bœ

mp

a

a

bœ J a

œ -

gain.

bœ -

œœ ™™

bœ ™ bœ ™

∑

‰

Œ

‰

Œ

bœ J

The

j bœ

The

‰

Œ

gain.

bœ -

bbœœ

gain.

bœ -

œœ

∑

bœ J

The

‰

gain.

bœ bbœœ

bœ bœ J

œ bœ

‰

œ

bœ bœ J

bœ bœ

‰

Œ ∑

œ J

The

Œ Œ

From Counting Time in Central City. Poetry © 2013 (revised 2015) by Charles Passy. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

bbœœ J bœœ J

35

° mp bœ ™ & 107

& bœ ™

bœ ™

bœ ™

is

like

truth

mp

bœ ™

truth

is

Ϫ

¢

& ‹ truth mp œ™ ?

{

/

bœ ™ & b œœ ™™ ?

Ϫ

mp

° <b>œ & J 109

& œj

¢

& <b>œJ ‹ ? œJ

{

/

j & <b>œœ ? <b>œœJ

bœ ™

is

like

™ bbœœœ ™™

bœ ™ b œ™

like

Œ Œ Œ

‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ∑

bœ bœ full

of

full

of

bœ bœ bœ

that,

œ™ ∑

œ

bœœ ™™

bœ ™

Ϫ

<n> ˙ ™

bœ ™

bœ ™

<n> ˙ ™

bœ ™

Ϫ

<n> ˙ ™

sand

sand

bœ ™

and

bœ ™ and

full

of

sand

and

full

of

sand

and

™ bbœœ ™

œ bœ

Œ

‰

bœ

bœ

Œ

‰

bœœ

b œœ

™ bbœœ ™

that,

bœœ ™™

bœ ™

Ϫ

Œ

bœ ™

that,

bœ ™

œ™ ∑

Ϫ

like

is

truth

that,

bœ ™

Ϫ

mp

bœ ™

∑

b œœ ™™ bœœ ™™

tears.

b˙ ™

tears.

tears.

tears.

<n>˙ ™ <n> ˙ ™

∑

b˙ ™ <n> ˙ ™

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Music © 2015 by Frank J. Oteri, Transformal Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

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