• This title was commissioned by the Johan Franco Composition Fund of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.

This work is for carillon plus trombone. Additional files are included for performance on transposing carillons.

In late May of 2021, the remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at a former Canadian residential school site. Struck by this news among many other horrid and violent events since the pandemic had started, I wrote Cloud Lullaby in an utmost personal manner. The piece is a literal lullaby, an elegy dedicated to the indigenous children as well as those who lost their lives during the pandemic. It is also a personal reflection and meditation on life and suffering at difficult times.

—Alison Yun-Fei Jiang