Cristy's Rib was composed in the late summer of 2007. The text is a poem by Daniel's old high school English teacher, Jeffery Hallford. The piece is for 8 part choir and Tenor or Baritone soloist. For the majority of the piece the choir acts almost as accompaniment for the soloist, creating a shifting and flowing foundation thru the use of humming, interweaving/contrary dynamic motion between the voices, and a somewhat undulating contrapuntal texture inspired by the late renaissance/early baroque composer Antonio Lotti's 8 part Crucifixus. Meanwhile, the soloist acts as a narrator contemplating love and his deep connection to his beloved till the eighth line of the text when the entire chorus switches from humming to spoken word in a powerful and richly voiced proclamation of the narrator's utter necessity for his beloved before the chorus returns to humming and the narrator completes the piece by asking that he be placed near his beloved's heart. The piece is a capella and of a moderate to advanced difficulty level.

Cristy's Rib - Jeffery Hallford
The old patriarchs wrote it wrong;
they had a lot of face to save.
It wasn't Adam who lost the rib,
but Eve, who gave to make a man.
I am Cristy's rib.
Just a fragment long and strong
bent upon a park bench.
I need your lips and tongue to talk,
your eyes and ears to see and to hear
the world, hands and feet to walk.
Open up your chest
and place me near your heart,
so 'round your rhythm I may curve,
and with my bony strength I may serve.

4 pages, 8 ½ x 11 score, 1'50" duration

Catalogue No. 03003

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