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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - SKU: A0.898494 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. 30 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #504...(+)

Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - SKU: A0.898494 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. 30 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #504802. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.898494). Full score. I am a frequent visitor to the Protestant Cemetery in Testaccio, Rome. Shelley, Keats and Corso are buried there among other expatriates who adopted the city of Rome as their own. I am a not a huge fan of the music by Ottorino Respighi, whose work, like the Pines of Rome, reminds too much of Hollywood music scores. But I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered on YouTube a chamber work he wrote for mezzo-soprano and string quartet called â€œIl Tramonto.â€ The vocal and string writing are exquisite, quite beautiful and heart-felt. When I looked at the source of the text I saw that it was an Italian translation by Roberto Ascoli of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. That immediately inspired me to do my own musical setting of this poem. Two reasons. One, it has a Rome connection. Two, two of my favorite subjects in music are all there in one poem: love and death. Unfortunately I did not find the original English version to be sufficiently â€œmusical.â€ The archaic language was a bit leaden and convoluted. On the other hand, the Italian translation is so much more lyrical and transcendental. I divided the poem into five parts. At the end I decided to tag on a text I have wanted to set for quite some time: Media Vita. I think the subject of this Latin text fits beautifully as a coda or â€œapotheosisâ€ to Il Tramonto. I. Moderato â€¦ GiÃ vâ€™ebbe un uomo II. Andante â€¦ Ora Ã¨ sommerso il sole III. Adagio â€¦ Il given e la dama giacquer tra il sonno IV. Moderato â€¦ Neri gli occhi ma non fulgidi piÃ¹ V. Adagio â€¦ Ho tal retaggio che la terra non dÃ VI. Apotheosis: Largo â€¦ Media Vita Enjoy!!!