Gifts
For SSAA and Piano
Duration: 6'00
Commissioned by Firbank Grammar School for the Bel Canto Choir
Music by Todd McNeal
Poem by Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal
 

Piano
5

  

ppp
3


 

 

pp






P

cresc. poco a poco
   


    
'I will bring you love',



RH


  


pp






love',

   
'I will bring you

    
'I will bring you love',

 
cresc. poco a poco
 

will
'I
pp

 
bring
you
cresc. poco a poco

 
 
'I
will
 
bring
you

love',

love',












l.v.

f
    
'I will bring you love',
A



 

pp

     
pp
ff
'I will bring you love',
'I will bring you
cresc. poco a poco
pp

 


 
   
  

P

molto
  
    

accel. e cresc. poco a poco



 
5  

P


8 A
 


cresc.




Adagio Sostenuto (q=72)
l.v.
music © copyright Todd McNeal 2014 All rights reserved
Gifts, by Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, from My People, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons Australia 2008,
Reproduced by permission of the publisher. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2
Più mosso (q=84)
fp
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 
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      
  
 
 
mp
14
love',
'I will bring you


mp
'I will
bring
'I will bring you

fp
'I will bring you

 


 








  

love',


3


molto
 
P
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mf
mf
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f
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
11
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 
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

Moderato (q=128)
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

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
     
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p
glad light to dance
  
B Moderato (q=128)
l.v.
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    




'A

 

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 
5

said the young lo - ver,

ff vib.

 

  
 





said the young lo - ver,

ff vib.


f cresc.
  
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


B

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  


  


20

  



Più mosso (q=84)

love',
fp
'I will bring you

ff vib.

 
        

 
  
mp


love',
 
        

 
  
mp

love',
fp

   
 
         

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ff vib.
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p
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l.v.
in your
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3
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25
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
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


p
 


    

'A glad light to dance


dark

light
 

  
in your
dark



  
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




dark



dance
in
your



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in
your
dark
 
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eye.

 
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

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
p


    

Più mosso (q=136)
C mf
 
  
    
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
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
eye.
Pen mf

Pen mf

Pen mf

Pen -
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
dants
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
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
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
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dants
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 

dants
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  
 

 


  
Pen -

dants
Pen -

dants
Pen -

dants

  
Pen -
dants
dants
I
I
I
I
will
will
will
will
bring
bring
bring
bring

 

   


  
    
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
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
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

          
 
Più mosso (q=136)

C

     




eye.
P
31
light

eye.

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






glad



glad



mf
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
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
 
4
  
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37
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     
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of the
white
f
  
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f
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bone,
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of the
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 
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
 
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white
bone,
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
f
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of the white

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f

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42

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
   

  

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mf giocoso

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
And
 





bone,
of
bone,
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

P


 

  
the
white bone,
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

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5
47 D
      
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




gay
par - rot
fea

 


thers to
deck

your
    

gay
par - rot fea


hair.'
mf giocoso
And

 
gay par - rot
 

-
   
cresc.
thers to

fea -thers to
 


deck

your
cresc.
  

 



D

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mf
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




  

53

deck
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 

gay

 
par
-
 cresc.
   
par
rot
fea


rot
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       
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P
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
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fea
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
to


deck
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to

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your

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
P
hair.'
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-
 

fea -thers to

hair.'
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
cresc.





P
your
deck
gay



hair.'
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P

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

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      

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
6
  ff
 
57
hair.'
ff
 
  
hair.'
ff

  
hair.'
ff


   
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










hair.'
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 

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E
 

58

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

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ff



p


P

  

But she on - ly shook her head.
p
3

   



   

ly shook her head.


ly shook her head.

pp

 


 

shook her head.
pp
shook her head.
pp
 


 
 
 
shook her head.
3

l.v.

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   
p
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  
   
E Andante (q=100)



l.v.

  



But she on - ly shook her head.
p
3
But she on -


3
But she on -
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  
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




  
  
Andante (q=100)

 

 
P


pp
 


 
shook her head.
    
 
6


 


mf marcato



   

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