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Work Overview
'Cross Country is a commissioned SSAATTBB a capella choral work composed as a response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The first work of The Song Company's 2022 Songs from the Heart production, it describes how Indigenous Australians walk across Australian Country together, and learn from Aboriginal Elders how to live properly on Country.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a capella
Duration: 3 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Commission note: Commissioned by The Song Company.. Commissioned from the composer Elizabeth Sheppard by The Song Company on 26 June 2021.
First performance: 29 Sep 22. Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW
Contribute submitted styles, genres, influences, etc:
A strophic choral work with polyphonic structure, that expresses and adheres to the composer’s Australian Indigenous heritage in its lyrics and strophic modal structure, and synthesizes this content with European polyphonic text setting traditions derived from church music.
Subjects
- Has as subject/About: Indigenous Australian Culture
Performances of this work
29 Sep 22: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW
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