86 46 SHAMIRA (The Golden Nightingale) “Wake up, Pip. No time to delay. Meet your idol With feet of clay.” & b U U , ∑ ∑ & b U U U U , { & b ˙ ˙˙ ˙˙ ˙ ∑ u ˙˙ ∑ u 48 & b PIP ( yawning) “I’m wide awake. Or so it would seem. And yet I’ve woken into a dream. (seeing Shamira) Are you actually here? Is it really you?” U Ó Glock. > ˙ SHAMIRA “Yes. And I’m so much more real than you can imagine.” U ∑ 50 & b PIP “But I don’t understand. U Ó Glock. > ˙ What are you doing here?” SHAMIRA “I’ve come to tell you a story. (all sit to listen) Once upon a time there was a bird. A small, ordinary, insignificant bird who desperately wanted to sing.” U ∑ 52 & b WIT “Sounds familiar!” U Ó Glock. > ˙ SHAMIRA “And this bird fell into the hands of the Doc Rock Peacocks. They promised her the world. But in return she had to give up everything she was—her real name, her old life, her face, her feathers, her very soul.” U ∑ 54 & b WOO “And did she make it? Did she become a singer on a global stage?” U Ó Glock. > ˙ for online perusal only SHAMIRA “Yes. But at a terrible price. She found fame but lost herself.” WIT “And even though everybody loved her ...” U ∑ 56 SHAMIRA & b “She couldn’t love herself.” PIP “And can this story have a happy ending?” U ∑ Glock. w > SHAMIRA “The only way for her to be happy again is to find someone else who’s signed a contract with the Doc Rock Peacocks.” “Someone like me, for example?” & b U Ó 58 PIP Glock. > ˙ SHAMIRA “Yes, someone exactly like you. And then both these birds tear up their contracts together—at the same time, simultaneously, each releasing the other by freeing themselves.” U ∑
60 & b WIT “They destroy the contracts and save themselves.” U ∑ WOO “A loss for a gain.” U ∑ 87 62 & b PIP “Well, I have a contract. But if I tear it up ...” (takes it out) U Ó Glock. > ˙ SHAMIRA “You’ll never be what you thought you wanted to be.” U ∑ for online perusal only 64 & b WIT “Instead you’ll be something ...” U ∑ WOO “... better than you ever imagined!” U ∑ 66 & b SHAMIRA “I’m doing this for you. I’m doing this for me. So we can be free.” U ∑ U ∑ { &b U w p &b ∑ u ∑ u U ww PIP 68 “I’m doing this for me. I’m doing this for you. So we can be true.” & b U U ∑ ∑ ∑ n 2 & b U w U ww ∑ n 2 { & b ∑ u ∑ u ∑ n 2
2 A musical drama for soloists, uni
3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX
Dramatis Personæ Pip, a sparrow Hi
Charles Bennett (b. 1954) BIRDLAND
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18 ° ¢ & œ œ œ œ w Ó Œ ‰
9 31 ° 6 ¢ & ∑ 4 ∑ ° & œ 3
40 ° ¢ & ff œ œ j ‰ œ œ j
3. Feathered Perfection (Highnote,
Just one false note, one wrong step
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21 41 ° 6 12 ¢ & bb b ∑ ∑ 8
23 5. I have a song (Pip, Unison Ch
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27 39 & 4 ∑ ∑ ∑ ° ¢ & 4 °
S. A. T. B. 8 & : ‹ ; b b b 3 2 &
25 & : ‹ ; b b b PIP “I’ll wo
52 & : ‹ ; b b b œ œ œ œ œ
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