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Moonlight is a study-piece for youth choir. It is an ear-training

exercise, for the singers must learn to pitch their notes by interval
from any note given.

It is understood that while the piece contains few dynamic

markings, it is soft almost always. Dynamics are indicated by the
thickness of the line. A thin line is a soft sound, a heavy line a
loudish one.

Bells, glockenspiels, metalophones, vibraphones and a suspended

cymbal with a wire brush (indicated T) can be added to the
choir if desired. If used they play coloristic effects very softly and
need not harmonize with the choir, except where indicated.

I once gave a grade 7 class the assignment of finding suitable

synonyms for the word "moonlight"; new words in a private language
were to be invented that expressed in sound the concept of moon-
light.

The text of the present composition consists of some of these

synonyms:

Nu-yu-yul - Noorwahm Maunklinde - Malooma - Lunious -

Sloofulp - Shiverglowa - Shalowa - Sheelesk - Shimonoell -
Neshmoor.

The author of the word "Shimonoell" says the "oe" is to be

pronounced as o.
R. Murray Schafer- West Vancouver
March 3- 10 I 1968.