This song is a constructed well known canon.

ES IST EIN ROS ENTSPRUNGEN AUS EINER WURZEL ZART

WIE UND DIE ALTEN SUNGEN

VON JESSE KAM DIE ART

It is a very delicate song .So I I started just humming with dynamic regulations. Then I built up a three voices canon and after that a single Cello line.

This world known Peace song did find a new computer music filling.

the song itself has a challenging structure.

a) twice the active calls for peace

b) the wonderful meditativ bow

c) the thythmic repeat "le hitraot"

d) the soft ending, thoughtful schalom -schalom

For the canon I had quite a firm structure. The second part is a bit more free, every small part has a different instrumentation, ending with a fading echo.

Dona nobis pacem is an ol der counterpoint canon in three parts

A.  swinging two lines going down

B   repeating tone levels , going down  again two calls DONA , going down

C  low level  ,fast scale upwards,

     jumping Finale

Almost everyone knows this melody from the famous 9th sinfonie by Ludwig v..Beethoven.

"Freude, schöner Götterfunke"

I translated it into our modern language and made it esy to sing.

Joy, the beautiful bright spark from heaven and the sphere of God, bring the light down here to earth and spread it from your sacred spot.

Magic powers  bind together what is dividing ou.r dark world.

All people should be sisters and brothers where your shining spirit dwells.

Find your joy, your happiness and

show respect, understanding.

Practise care and practise love

your life will be quite glaring

THE SONG HAS THREE PARTS

1.  The first is more or less the original in a modern style and the straight forward rhythm

2. the second is freely added  with

  a fresh punctuated rhythm

3. the first text is repeated but in a broad waltz rhythm

I tried to bring in the quirlig sparks

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This is one of my first cantatas with the first experimental ideas when the smart phone came ,partly in style of the famous barock "Wachet auf".

In the end there is the counting of the ending time with the big gong and a very high voice and a trumpet like end "WIR MÜSSEN IHM ENTGEGEN GEHN.

This is the English adoption of an old Chilean folk song "Gracias a la vida.

Thanks for my life and living

and all I´ve been given

you gave me two eyes  

and when I them open

I clearly distinguish the dark and the bright

and in the high sky

the depth full of stars

and among all the peole

The man I do love.

Thanks for my life and living

and all that I´m been given

you gave me two ears  that I hear all world´s noises.

I listen at night and day

the crickets and the birds

hammering and machines

the barking dogs and the heavy storm

and the soft voice

of my most beloved.

Thanks for my life and living

and all that I´ve been given

you gave me the voice and articulation,  the words I can think and deliver. 

I say Mother, friend , brother

and the light of understanding

the way of the soul, of the person 

I really love.

Thanks for my life and living

and all I´ve been given.

you gave me the walking

to my feet so tired

on which I wander restless

through the towns and landscapes

Along beaches and deserts over mountains and planes.

and to your house, your street

and your home place.

Thanks for my life and living

and all that I´ve bee given.

you gave me my heart

that pulses much faster

when I look at the working

of my human brain.

when I see the good

being so far from the bad

when I look into the depth

of your  so clear eyes.

Thanks for my life and living

and all that I´been given.

Yu gave the laughing 

and also the crying     

So I can distinguish

the friendliness from nasty words.

Those both materials that are building my singing

and the same song

which is your song

and the song of everybody

I sing a fresh song and dance along

breathing the wind of the sea

I leave the coastal dunes behind

dreaming of lands where I could be

When brilliant sunshine is reflected

and measured time can be neglected

I stroll ahead my sandy way

at the low-tide shore of Liverpool bay

I feel my freedom expanding the spine

my eyes follow the horizons´line

My thoughts go further beyond the west

What do I search for? Finding a rest

somewhere in the widened space

where ends all our hard busling race.

This is a ballad, just sung with my

joystick about a lonely year before my marriage.

When I was young, a German student in nineteen sixty nine

I left Cologne for a fancy idea of mine

to go to  - how queer - to England for one year

I packed my grandfathers old seamen´s trunk, bike and my Cello

London, my first choice, but then changed my mind,quite cool,to be assistant teacher in Liverpool.

That seemed to be a crazy adventure, but I was curious

awaiting the offers for the new life and my coming future.

Finally arriving my arranged accomodation

I stared up the high tower building at Olive Mount Heights-

nobody was in sight

But then - a friendly voice called from a higher balcony

kum up mi sun, kum up mi sun

          (what has she said?)

It was Mrs Tedcastle, to invite me into her small flat.

That was not the English I learnt at school---

I had to find out now--

I am in Liverpool  

kum up, kum up , kum up mi son

There l lived since in my new home

When I was hungry she prepaired me a nice meal

kum up, kum up mi sun

When I felt lonely

she gave me a hug

when I was tired from riding my bike

she told funny stories I would like

kum up, kum up, kum up mi sun

She had a daughter -  almost my age

we had lots of laughter over my my language stage

kum up, kum up

Over all the years this scouse sentence was in my mind

Now i made a song, sing with me-

be so kind ;

KUM UP ,KUM UP, KUM UP MI SUN

KUM UP, KUM UP, KUM UP !!

This is an old and famous Spiritual Song.

Rock my soul in the bossom of Abraham

So high you can´t get over it

so low  it you can´t get under

so wide you can´t get round of it

oh, rocka my soul

I combined it with the religious children song

God´s world is so woderful 

added with the joy of our senses

see-----God´s world

feel ----God´s world

hear  ---God´s world

smell ---God´s world 

taste  - --God´s world

touch ---Gods´s world

       Gods´s wonderful world

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This song is personally recorded from an anonymus friend in Santiago

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto. Me dio dos luceros que quando los abro Perfecto distingo lo negro del  blanco.Y en el alto cielo su fondo estrellado Y en las multitudes el hombre que yo amo.

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado el oido que en todo su ancho Graba noche y dia grillos y canarios Martillos, turbinas, ladridos, cubascos Y la voz tan tierna de mi bien amado

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario con el las palabras que pienso y declaro

Madre, amigo,hermano, y luz alumbrando la ruta del alma del que estoy amando.

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto. Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados con ellos anduve ciudades y chacros, playas y desiertos, montanos y llanos Y la casa tuya, tu calle y tu patio

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me dio el corazon que agita su marco quando miro el fruto del cerebro humano.Quando miro al bueno tan lejos del malo. Cuando miro al fondo de tus ojos claros

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto. Me ha dado la risa, me ha dado el llanto.

Asi yo distingo dicha que quebranto. Los dos materiales que forman mi canto. Y el canto de Ustedes que es el mismo canto

              Y  el canto  de  todos