Name: You Are My Sunshine (arr. Zachary J. Moore) by Ray Charles SATB divisi Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Zachary J. Moore
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You Are My Sunshine (arr. Zachary J. Moore)
by Ray Charles SATB divisi Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Title You Are My Sunshine (arr. Zachary J. Moore)

Artist Ray Charles

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jimmie Davis

Arranger Zachary J. Moore

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement SATB divisi Choir

Publisher Zachary J. Moore

Level 4

Product ID 1734679

Genre Sacred Folk A Cappella Contemporary

Instruments Choir

Product Description

This arrangement is split into four ideas all linked together generationally. The first verse is meant to symbolize a departed parent comforting their grown child from the great beyond. To be more specific, the parent is singing this lullaby to their child in a dream. I felt the Latin word Lux (Light) was an appropriate fit for the imagery of sunlight and heavenly light.

The second verse represents the grown child waking up from the dream (first verse). This verse is meant to be bittersweet rather than strictly sad or angry. While there is grieving, the melody imparts comfort through nostalgia and memories. When the second verse gloriously blooms into the third, this represents everlasting love shining through even the darkest of times. Although gone, one will live in the heart and memory of another forever.

Finally, the reiteration of the first verse represents the grown child singing the same lullaby to their own baby, imparting unconditional love and comfort unto them. The arrangement then concludes full circle with the grown child, later deceased, singing to their baby from the great beyond.

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