bore him twelve more children Licallo often joked that he could make a sizable orchestra from the members of his household alone In his twenties, in order to teach his children music both vocal and instrumental, Ljcallo began to create a series of instructional pieces for the baliset, which began with the simplest of melodies and proceeded to extremely complex pieces These were collected under the title, Etudes and Progressions for Baliset which G M Fredhnck praised as "me soul of the baliset" On the strength of these pieces he was offered the position of director Of music at me newly founded St Sateel School for Boys, established by endowment from House Chula It was there that he wrote the bulk of his work Among his most famous works is the choral setting of The Trial ofSt Sateel now regarded as the greatest choral work m the Galach language When it was first produced it was coldly received as being "too the atncal " Ironically, it was considered too provincial when it was performed in Arrakeen, where Caladan opera was setting the fashion driving Licallo's similar ' tegor strum out of popularity In his Art of Tegor and The Counterpoint Treasury Licallo wrote a venta ble encyclopedia of baliset music In his Silversmith Variations for Organum, he took a simple workman's tune and set it to over thirty variations In his opera of the Battle of Cornn, AM Koreen Mnn, he mimicked the Caladan style even as he created startling new projections for voice So much attention has been given to Licallo's instrumental and symphonic work, and his operas performed so often m their languages of composition, Gegesh or Galach, that little note has been made of his musical puns, the weaving into his songs of the names of his friends and the like But the composer was much aware of the conditions of performance, being a performer himself, and when setting words to music he often added marginal notes to guide the acting of whatever the singer was involved m Thus, in Au Koreen Mnna in the ana "Ii wat sin utaud't tuyaur tubyaud't," the singer is to quickly down a glass of wine, throw the glass over his shoulder, and sing "utaud t" ("toast') in an undulating twenty-five-note passage In The Seven Sailors a serious motet ' Strai noot fremu fresndit ' (' Do not leave my side") changes to comedy as one by one the singers leave the stage, leaving the tenor looking nervously from side to side as the song ends In his later years, the administrators of St Sateel's paid less and less attention to music, perhaps from some resentment of the fame of their director or from a lack of interest in the subject Licallo found himself increasingly restricted in his projects, and spent the last years of his life in a constant state of vexa tion and frustration He died at the age of 86, after suffering a stroke He was mourned by musicians everywhere except at St Sateel's, where the principal is said to have remarked, "Now we can hire a chorus master instead of a virtuoso "4 Licallo's last work, A Sonata for Pipe and Bowed Baliset was left unfinished After his death, the city authorities of Dilowa had a statue of Licallo placed on the roof of the town hall with the single word ' Master" carved on a baliset at his feet 369 The word aptly describes his life both as performer and composer, just as BO words can capture the treasures he gave to the worlds J R M NOTES 'Taiazor Licallo BaltsetSong The Autobtogra phy of a Musician (rpt Centraha Kutath Brothers), P 5 Document 11830 457, Dilowa Civic Archives 'Cerre Compavyard trans , Tefary's Life of Licallo (Grumman Hartley Umv Press), p 282 4lbid p 371 LOYSEYAL, REVEREND MOTHER MARCUS CLAIRE.