Stillness

for a cappella SATB chorus (with divisi)

by Mark Growden

Composed and written for The Calling All Choir while at the Chalk Hill Artist Residency in Healdsburg, California. My first night at the residency I woke up before dawn. The previous evening I was enjoying the sounds of crickets chirping. I expected to hear them that morning, but instead I was met with silence. I listened for a time and realized that the only thing I could hear was my heart beating. I proceeded to write this piece the following day.

SKU: MGN-002 Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices Instrumentation: Choral

Duration:	1-5 Minutes
Voicing:	SATB
Instrumentation:	A Cappella
Language:	English
Sacred or Secular:	Secular

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