OVERVIEW
Parts: SAB, SSA, TTB
Language: English
Duration: 2:50
Text by: Michael Espinosa
Music by: Mitchell Fund
Description
Not a Soul on the Lake is a piece full of odd and irrational time signatures but sings as if it wasn't. The piano's ostinato churns beneath the surface, driving the vocals forward. It features a few moments of divisi in each part which may be taken as solos, small groups, or omitted altogether for simplicity's sake. Arrangements can be found in SSA, SAB, and TTB. Michael Espinosa, a fantastic PNW poet, captures the absurdity of a beautiful lake on a gorgeous day, populated not by the people who spent good money to live there, but with their belongings. More poetry and short stories by Michael Espinosa can be found at mespinosawrites.com.
SHEET MUSIC
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SCROLLING SCORE
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sunday afternoon
late spring
a cloudless sky
not a soul on the lake
dozens of houses
with windows for walls
uniform lawns
not a soul on the lake
seven foam swans in the water
three coyote statues on private docks
two wooden owls and a metal heron in a garden
not a soul on the lake
fifty kayaks asleep in yards
thirty motorboats under canopies
two seaplanes with eye masks on
not a soul on the lake