Look Out Above Dessa & Jocelyn Hagen pdf download $1.50 GP-D026 printed $3.00 SATB, a cappella COLLABORATION Dessa & Jocelyn Hagen Look Out Above for a cappella SATB choir, soloists, body percussion, opt. movement Commissioned by & dedicated to the Macalester College Choirs with special thanks to Dr. Michael McGaghie, conductor www.graphitepublishing.com GP-D026 Commissioned by & Dedicated to the Macalester College Choirs pdf download $1.50 with special thanks to Dr. Michael McGaghie, conductor (2017) Look Out Above for SATB a cappella choir, soloists, body percussion & optional movement Text: IPA Guide: We can’t be stopped [ɑ] - car they can’t catch us - sitting just like midnight on the clock: [ɪ] Text by: Dessa Dessa & Jocelyn Hagen it’s all hands up-- [ʌ] - cup, luck with help from the Macalester College Choir Students before tick goes toc, [ɔ] - call, saw it’s just the dust we kick up, so - boat [o] INSTRUCTIONS: Resembling a clock, conductor sweeps look out, look out, look out [u] - who left arm from left to right, like the arm of a clock. 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I want to see whispering: music in your body than to look from side to side to make “Look Out Above” take on the individual character of the sure you’re in musical consensus with your neighbors. The choir that is performing it. You want to hold something p natural friction between different voices is part of what a little longer? Great. You want to add more repeats? Yep. Right 4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ gives pop music style; it’s that X-factor that tells us when a More solos? Sure! A rap? Cool. Make this piece your own. ã 4 ∑ ∑ Ó Ó ∑ singer really means it. Don’t strive to be a choir of angels Help it live outside these pages! tɔ tɔ tɔ tɔ tɔ tɔ tɔ tɔ on this one. Be a room full of humans. Then please share it with me. I want to see your process, - Dessa (2018) your performance, and anything in between. I want to cheer you on. You got this! 7 F To the Conductor: Twitter & Instagram: @JocelynHagenMus Left œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Facebook: Jocelyn Hagen (composer) ã ∑ ∑ ∑ tI-k -tI-k -tI-k -tI-k tI-k -tI-k -tI-k -tI-k Congratulations on your decision to program “Look Out [email protected] ʌ ʌ ʌ ʌ ʌ ʌ ʌ ʌ Above” with your choir. You are officially an adventurous www.jocelynhagen.com speaking: conductor, committed to learning and exploring a work F that requires movement, improvisation, bravery, and fierce Middle œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Ó Œ œ œ commitment. ã ∑ ∑ > ∑ To the Singers: tʌ-kʌ-tʌ-kʌ-tʌ-kʌ-tʌ-kʌ Kick up I was lucky to workshop this piece throughout its creation Dessa has written you an incredible text and an incredible F with Dr. Michael McGaghie and the choir students at P hook. I hope it speaks to you. You are the next generation, Right œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Macalester College in St. Paul. I tried out a bunch of new and you have the ability to invent a life for yourself that ã Ó ∑ ∑ and sometimes unorthodox ideas with them. Some of you love and make the world a better place. You can’t be tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ - tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ-tɔ-kʌ-tɔ - kʌ them worked beautifully, while others did not. It was an stopped. Live the life you dream. incredible journey. - Jocelyn Hagen (2018) You are about to go on an incredible journey with your choir. 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