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Huron Passage

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Genre: Band
# of Players: Standard
Level: 3 | Duration: 4:00
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
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  • Notes & Instrumentation

    Huron Passage is part of a larger work by McMichael titled "Great Lakes Voyage." She has cleverly woven together four Great Lakes folk tunes including The Huron Carol Hoot Owl Song, What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? and Once More A-Lumbering Go.

    Genre: Band | # of Players: Standard
    Level: 3 | Duration: 4:00

    Instrumentation
    Piccolo
    Flute 1/2
    Oboe
    Bassoon 1/2
    Clarinet in Bb 1
    Clarinet in Bb 2/3
    Bass Clarinet
    Alto Saxophone 1/2
    Tenor Saxophone
    Baritone Saxophone

    Trumpet in Bb 1
    Trumpet in Bb 2/3
    Horn in F 1/3
    Horn in F 2/4
    Trombone 1/2
    Bass Trombone
    Euphonium
    (Baritone T.C.)
    Tuba

    Percussion 1 (snare drum, bass drum, suspended cymbal)
    Percussion 2 (low tom or field drum, tambourine, triangle)

    Program Notes
    Great Lakes Voyage was commissioned to celebrate the memory of Andy Anderson, a charter member of the Bay Concert Band. The charge was to create a piece that would have special meaning for the band, and one that Andy would have enjoyed playing. Great Lakes folk song themes seemed a natural topic. The tunes chosen include:

    I. Bigler’s Crew
    II. Low Bridge, Everybody Down (commonly known as The Erie Canal, written by Gov. Thomas Allen of NY in 1913)
    III. Nearer, My God, To Thee (Sarah F. Adams, 1841), The Persia Crew, also known as Lake Huron’s Rockbound Shore
    IV. The Huron Carol (French Canadian Tune), Hoot Owl Song (Chippewa/Objiwa, collected by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath), What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor and Once More A-Lumbering Go (collected by Earl Clifton Beck)

    Huron Carol
    ‘Twas the moon of wintertime, when all the birds had fled,
    That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead;
    Before their light the stars grew dim and wandering hunters heard the hymn:
    “Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis Gloria.”

    Hoot Owl Song
    Ku-ku-ku’u ning-o-sa,
    Ku-ku-ku’u ning-o-sa,
    Wa-bi-ku-ku ning-o-sa.
    (Ning-o-sa = I’m afraid of, Kukuku’u = owl, Wabikuku = great white owl)

    Drunken Sailor
    What do you do with a drunken sailor (3x) / Ear-lai in the morning?

    Once More A-Lumbering Go
    Come all you sons of freedom that run the Saginaw stream,
    Come all you roving lumber boys and listen to my there:
    We’ll cross the Titabawassee, where the mighty waters flow,
    And we’ll range the woods of Michigan, once more a-lumbering go, and once more a-lumbering go.
    And we’ll range the woods of Michigan, once more a-lumbering go.

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