The Owl
Text Source
Lyrics by Rebotco Sepulu
Music
Music by Don "Orfeo" Rechtman
Instrumentation
Voice, piano
The Owl by Don "Orfeo" Rechtman and Rebotco Sepulu (2004)
Copyright 2004 Don Orfeo and Rebotco Sepulu; Creative Commons Copyright 2018--authorship acknowledgement required only
it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
(This means you can perform it non-commercially or commercially without having to pay royalties, but you are required to acknowledge its authorship and where you got it. You cannot modify it without written permission from Don "Orfeo" Rechtman and Rebotco Sepulu.)
Sheet Music
Full Score PDF
Recording
Don Singing with accompaniment (MP3, 7.6MB; slight delay at start)
Video
Scrolling score, Don singing with accompaniment (MP4, 62MB)
Practice Tracks
Lyrics Printout
See below.
Notes
This is perhaps the jazziest music Don has written. Ms. Sepulu reflects on the human struggle with loneliness in her poem:
Calling out
Repeatedly Calling out.
Are you searching
For one that is lost?
Your call becomes fainter
Yet continues.
It is not answered
But you continue to break the silence
Over and over
Persistent in your search.
I remain silent.
There is no one to call out to.
No voice to answer mine.
No one who is able or willing
To crawl into the deep places with me
Abiding in darkness.
So I remain alone And quiet While you continue Calling out.