Imant Raminsh

Based on a text by visionary St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), this a cappella motet is characterized by chant-like melody lines and textures ranging from simple unison and two-part counterpoint to...

This tenderly wrought and graceful work transcends the usual imagery of Christmas to embrace universal questions of humanity. Piano and viola form a lyrical accompaniment.

Firefly Song attempts to capture the essence of the winking and ever-transforming miniature starscape of the Ojibway text. Points of instrumental and vocal color (in the form of trills, triadic sonori...

This is a new setting of the text of a Catalan Christmas carol. While there are many meter changes, the melody actually lilts along in alternating groups of two and three eighths and the smooth conjun...

This Inuit text features free and changing meters and frequent divisi.

This Chippewa text is energized by close canonic entries.

This Sioux text is a vigorous piece with canonic imitation and some tone clustering, starting with single voice parts and expanding to full SSAATTBB texture.

This Nahuatl text is a lyrical, rhapsodic setting of a ravishing text.

This Winnebago text is a quiet meditation, featuring a soprano soloist (imitating a boy soprano).

This Tewa text is quite vigorous.

This movement concludes the larger work Earth Chants in quiet benediction.

White Feathers is set to a translation from the Papago by Frances Densmore (1867-1957), the foremost authority on the songs and music of American Indian tribes. The text likely describes or suggests t...

Originally collected at Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, by the well-known Canadian folklorist Helen Creighton, the tune and text of this piece are variants of the popular and ubiquitous “Riddle Song&r...

Based on parts of Genesis, chapter 1, this piece explores the creation of light, day and night, the sun and the moon.

Originally titled Caribbean Sun, the poem captured the exuberance of the poet's childhood in the tropics. The piano sets the scene with an energetic rhythmic figure that is picked up by the voices.

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