"Táágo Dez'á" (three points) written in 200 for singing cellist is in three sections.
1. ... like a chased animal
2. shy, for a singer "I am looking for my grandfather."
3. quiet, but proud (like singing at night)
Each section employs a different form of transmission, with song 1 composed primarily using graphics (and some western-style notation), that are to be interpreted by the performer. Song 2 is learned by ear (oral transmission) through a live recording included by Chacon. The performer is asked to make their own version. Song 3 is fully notated, using microtones where pitch and time are loose. The singer is asked to not use vibrato and to sing certain vocables and Navajo phrases.
lyrics
Navajo phrases and vocables
credits
from North American Indian Cello Project,
released November 5, 2021
Composed by Raven Chacon who is of the Navajo Diné Nation
Performed by Dawn Avery
Recorded by Atilla Molnar LIVE at Montgomery College in 2019
Edited and Mastered by Larry Mitchell in 2021
Commissioned by Dawn Avery thanks to a grant from the First Nations Composers Initiative project supported through the Ford Foundation's Indigenous Knowledge, Expressive Culture grant program of the American Composers Forum
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