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CoverLunar Lullaby [level: Easy]
Jacob Narverud: Bio and other works
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voicing: TTBB | catalog number: SBMP 1535 | price: $2.80
accompaniment: piano
Other Voicing: SA, SATB, Unison


The imaginative text tells of the “celestial child” up there in the stars. A piano part in constant motion offers support and contrast to the flowing melodies of the singers.


performance by: St. Olaf Viking Chorus - Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, conductor [© all rights reserved]

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CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem
Lunar Lullaby
Music by Jacob Narverud (2014)
Lyrics by Joshua East & Jacob Narverud (2014)
Adapted from the text "Celestial Child" by Kathleen Nicely

The moon settles in the dusky sky.
The gentle eyes of the north star
rest upon your sleeping face
and the heavens gaze upon you.

In this moment, I know;
You are not from the ground on which you tread,
but of the stars.
You are my radiant, my celestial child.

As night is drown’d by morning
you remain at my side,
accompanying the sunrise
until night swells again across the sky.

Then, dreaming, you return to the stars. 
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Celestial Child
by Kathleen Nicely (2014)

The moon settles softly in the dusky sky;
the gentle eyes of the North star
and the dewy light of the constellations
rest upon your sleeping face.
Orion will guard you as you lie in the dim light
and Leo will hold you close to his heart.
The heavens gaze upon your fingertips
which settle as a spider’s thread
clinging softly to your airy bedsheets.
Let me whisper ancient reels into your ears,
and brush back the hair from your eyes.
Let me live within your deepest self;
let me live within the beating of your heart,
and the gentle breaths streaming through your lips.
You are my forever in the spinning cosmos,
you are the home I will always return to.
you are more precious than diamonds,
more beautiful than the brushstroke rings on Saturn.
Your value weighs down libra’s scales.
You are my heart’s compass which leads me to myself;
the workings of your heart are like a passing dreamscape-
and your eyes sparkle-
like the dissonance of spontaneous song.
Your voice is like stardust scattering across your teeth.
You are my breath,
you are my child,
you are manifested love,
and you breathe softly in my arms
while the North Star and Orion beckon for the sun.


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Lunar Lullaby choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

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St. Olaf Viking Chorus - Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, conductor

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"This song is beautiful to me, I can't get it off my mind. So soothing in my perspective. I would rate this song 10 out of 5 stars. also, this is fun to sing."
review by: Braden W, Little Chute, Wisconsin - Lc choir


Featured on the following reading sessions
2023 | Nevada ACDA Mini Conference Nevada ACDA Reading Session
2020 | CO MEA Elementary Reading Session - January 22-25
2020 | Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses National Seminar from March 19-21st at Albion College
2020 | Northwestern - WA ACDA Summer Institute
2019 | All-Carolina Select Choir, Wingate University, 1/25/19
2019 | JW Pepper New Sounds Milwaukee Reading Session
2019 | New Sounds of JW Pepper - Septemeber 28
2019 | Hawaii ACDA - Honolulu, HI - August 31
2019 | W TX Choral Workshop - July 8-10, Odessa, TX
2019 | Rodney Eichenberger Summer Choral Workshop
2019 | New Sounds Cerritos, CA - July 30-31
2019 | Missouri Choral Directors Convention - July 17-20,
2019 | New Sounds of JW Pepper - July 11-13 & July 24-26



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