Strange About Stars

It's strange about stars...
for SSAA choir
Melissa Dunphy
Text by Lola Ridge
3 min
2014
for all the survivors
It's strange about stars ...

You have to be still when they look at you.
They push your song inside of you with their song.
Their long silvery rays
sink into you and do not hurt.
It is good to feel them resting on you
like great white birds...
and their shining whiteness
doesn't burn like the sun
it washes all over you
and makes you feel cleaner'n water.
From Sun-Up [IV. Betty] by Lola Ridge (1920)

Melissa Dunphy
Lyrics by Lola Ridge
Adagio q = 60
4
4
Soprano 1
4
4
Soprano 2
4
4
Alto 1
4
4
Alto 2
pp
It's
pp
strange
It's
pp
strange
It's
strange
a bout stars...
a bout stars...
a bout stars...
pp
It's
It's
p
strange,
It's
p
strange,
It's
strange
it's strange,
a bout stars...
You have to
It's
be
strange,
You have
to be
mf
4
4
4
4
You have to be
strange,
to be
Adagio q = 60
Reduction
You have
f
mf
pp
sub p
S1
still
when they look
at you.
They push,
push,
sub p
push
your
push
your
push
your
S2
still,
still
when they look
at you.
They push,
push,
sub p
A1
still
sub p
when they look at you.
They push, push,

p
They push, push,
push,
A2
still,
still
when they look at
you.
sub p
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push your

3
mf
11
mp
S1
song
in
side of you with their
mf
song.
Their
long,
long sil
ver y rays
mp
S2
song
in
mf
song.
Their long,
long,
long
sil
ver y rays
mp
A1
song
in
mf
song.
Their long,
long,
sil
ver y rays
mp
A2
song
in side
of you
with their
mf
song.
Their sil
mp
ver y rays
17
S1
sink in to you
and do not hurt.
It is good
to
feel
them rest
ing on
f
S2
sink in to you
and
do not hurt.
It is
f
good
to
feel
them
rest
ing on
to
feel
them
rest
ing on
A1
sink
in to you
and do not hurt.
It is good
f
A2
sink
in to you
and do
not hurt.
It is good
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to feel
them rest ing on you

f
22
mp
S1
you
like
great white birds...
great white
birds...
and their shin ing white
ness does n't
mp
S2
you
like
great white birds...
great white
birds...
ness does n't
mp
A1
you
like great white
birds...
great white
birds...
ness does n't
mp
A2
like great
white
birds...
great white
birds...
ff
28
ness does n't
mp
sempre ff
S1
burn
like the sun

ff
it
wash
sempre ff
es
ov
burn
like the sun

ff
it
es
ov
er you,
it
wash
es
ov
S2
wash
er you,
it
wash
es
ov
er you, it
wash
es
ov
er you, it
wash
es
ov
er you, it
ff
A1
burn
like the sun
it
ff
ff
A2
burn
like the sun
ff
it
sempre ff
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er

5
p
34
3
4
S1
you,
it
wash es
ov
er you
and makes you

p
feel
wash
es
ov
er you
and makes you
feel
es
ov
er you
and makes you

p
feel
es
ov
er you
clean
er 'an
and makes you
feel
mp
clean
mp
er 'an
clean
er 'an
3
4
A2
wash
er 'an
3
4
A1
wash
clean
mp
3
4
S2
mp
3
4
p
39
3
4
mp
4
4
S1
wat
er,
clean
er 'an
wat
er,
clean
er than
wat
er.
er than
wat
er.
4
4
S2
wat
er,
clean
er 'an
wat
er,
clean
wat
er,
clean er
than
wat
er.
wat
er,
clean er
than
wat
er.
4
4
A1
wat
er,
clean
er 'an
4
4
A2
wat
er,
clean
er 'an
4
4
4
4
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It's strange about stars...

for SSAA choir

for all the survivors

It's strange about stars ...

It's strange about stars...

Lyrics by Lola Ridge

when they look

when they look

when they look at you.

They push, push,

They push, push,

when they look at

It's strange about stars...

side of you with their

side of you with their

side of you with their

and do not hurt.

and do not hurt.

them rest ing on you

It's strange about stars...

great white birds...

and their shin ing white

ness does n't

great white birds...

and their shin ing white

ness does n't

like great white

and their shin ing white

ness does n't

and their shin ing white

ness does n't

like the sun

like the sun

like the sun

like the sun

It's strange about stars...

and makes you

and makes you

and makes you

and makes you

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