Hot Summer Nights (voice and instrument)

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This is a song about the web of emotions of the lover, based on a poem by Vancouver poet Genni Gunn. The piece is a duo for voice and melodic instrument, and comes in 5 versions, one for each vocal range. So all lovers can sing it!

The music is inspired by Eastern European and Middle-eastern singing. Both singer and instrumentalist should approach their instruments taking these folk traditions into consideration, producing a basic straight tone that is rich in harmonics. vibrato should be used only as a musical and expressive device on certain held notes (this being left to the performer’s discretion). For those interested in musical theory, the work in composed using a 15-tone mode that features quarter-tones, notably the quarter-tone above the principal drone-note.


“Hot Summer Nights” by Genni Gunn

I lie in the shade of my lover’s sleep.

Curtains spread their thighs

and the cool hand of the moon

strokes his lips, my heart.

So easy to slide into his breath

easy as snowflakes melting

easy as habits become.


Hot summer nights, the air

a mellifluous refrain

the sky a black stone

I must scale

to touch distant scars too high too far


I lie in the ache of my lover’s heartbeat

he, whose only fault

is loving me too much

submit to the sable caress of inertia’

easy to believe absolution

for the unoriginal sin

of loneliness.


[Used with permission.]

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Hot Summer Nights (voice and instrument)

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