my name
Instrumentation: SATB & Piano
Purchase: My Name
Duration: 3:00
Language: English
Story: When my daughters began speaking with regularity, I started keeping a list on my phone
called “Funny Things My Kids Said.” Whenever they said something funny , completely
out of left field, or filled with the kind of wisdom that only toddlers possess, I would jot it down
verbatim in an effort to document and later remember one of these precious and all-too-fleeting
moments.
My Name is the second movement of Funny Things My Kids Said.
Purchase: My Name
Duration: 3:00
Language: English
Story: When my daughters began speaking with regularity, I started keeping a list on my phone
called “Funny Things My Kids Said.” Whenever they said something funny , completely
out of left field, or filled with the kind of wisdom that only toddlers possess, I would jot it down
verbatim in an effort to document and later remember one of these precious and all-too-fleeting
moments.
My Name is the second movement of Funny Things My Kids Said.
Text and Context:
My Name
My name has three letters. That’s not enough letters. Now that I’m four, it should have four letters.
– Joy
Joy daydream-ily posited this thought on her fourth birthday. The matter-of-factness that kids have while expressing ludicrous-to-adult thoughts is hysterical and inspiring. I tried to let the music reflect this daydreamy world that kids frequently inhabit and adults rarely do. True to her sentiment, each voice’s main melody only has three notes until getting to “four letters” when it adds a fourth pitch (a fourth letter! Sorry, Dad joke.).
My name has three letters. That’s not enough letters. Now that I’m four, it should have four letters.
– Joy
Joy daydream-ily posited this thought on her fourth birthday. The matter-of-factness that kids have while expressing ludicrous-to-adult thoughts is hysterical and inspiring. I tried to let the music reflect this daydreamy world that kids frequently inhabit and adults rarely do. True to her sentiment, each voice’s main melody only has three notes until getting to “four letters” when it adds a fourth pitch (a fourth letter! Sorry, Dad joke.).