Cypress Choral Music The Landfall of Cabot - Cook - SATB

Author/Composer:

COOK, D.F.

Instrumentation:

SATB ACCOMP

Model #:

CP1127

Lyrics: Johnny Burke (1897), M. J. Fewer (1961)
Music: D. F. Cook
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SATB with piano accompaniment

This humorous and ancient Newfoundland folk song questions the landing place of the famous Italian explorer (sailing for the English). In very funny and jaunty lyrics it claims he actually landed (surprisingly) in Bona Vista (Newfoundland). The form is argumentative dialogue between voices (he didn't - he did!) and clever rhymes with a maximum of unison section singing and a minimum of harmony. Appropriate for mid range community choir.