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Love Poem
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Clarinette
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Saxophone et Orgue
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2 Flûtes traversières, Piano
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Trompette
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Euphonium, Piano (duo)
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Trombone
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Trompette, Saxophone (duo)
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Cor anglais, Guitare (duo)
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Quatuor de Cuivres : 2 trompettes, trombone, tuba
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Trompette, Trombone (duo)
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Cor anglais, Piano
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2 Trompettes (duo)
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2 Trombones (duo)
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Violon
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Violoncelle
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Violon, Violoncelle (duo)
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Harpe
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Violon, Alto (duo)
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Contrebasse, Piano (duo)
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2 Altos (duo)
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2 Violons (duo)
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2 Harpes (duo)
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2 Violoncelles (duo)
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Alto, Guitare (duo)
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Violoncelle , Guitare (duo)
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Alto seul
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Harpe, Voix
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4 Violoncelles
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Contre Basse
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Harpe, Flûte (duo)
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Alto et Harpe
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Violon, Guitare (duo)
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A New Theology, Edward Hirsch, poem. (Often paired with "The Sweetness."
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Mary Ann Joyce
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A New Theology, Edward Hirsch,
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.989239 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday. 5 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6209129. Publ...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.989239 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday. 5 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6209129. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989239). A New Theology, Edward Hirsch,poem. God looks at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Paradise and....He couldn't bear their happiness when he saw them laughing together, eating pomegranates, and celebrating life.... The poet decides that thewhole shebang about the apple and the serpent was a set up because God couldn't stand being alone with his own creation....exactly like us, love. Exactly like us. A humorous, but serious poem and musical setting.
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Three Poems of Christina Rossetti (Downloadable)
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David Conte
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Three Poems of Christina Rosse
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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High voice, piano - Moderately Difficult - SKU: MQ.8056-E Composed by David Conte. 20 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8056-E. Published b...
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High voice, piano - Moderately Difficult - SKU: MQ.8056-E Composed by David Conte. 20 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8056-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8056-E). Christina Rossetti's visionary poetry has a deeply religious quality. Rest describes the soul's journey from physical death to Paradise. Echo describes a passionate attempt to regain a love in dreams that has been lost in reality, and A Hope Carol describes the vigil of a soul who is called to a vision of Paradise and the second coming of Christ.
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[Froom] Three Love Songs
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David Froom
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[Froom] Three Love Songs
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American Composers Alliance Inc.
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.952348 Composed by David Froom. 20th Century,Contemporary. 24 pages. American Composers Alliance Inc. #4597155. Publishe...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.952348 Composed by David Froom. 20th Century,Contemporary. 24 pages. American Composers Alliance Inc. #4597155. Published by American Composers Alliance Inc. (A0.952348). Three songs for soprano and piano on poems by Sue Standing. Includes: Aubade: Portrait with Shadows, Hummingbird, Flamboyan.
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Carson Cooman: Tempt Me (2005) for soprano, tenor, and piano
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Carson Cooman: Tempt Me
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.533669 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday,Love,Standards. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Pub...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.533669 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday,Love,Standards. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3037091. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533669). Tempt Me (2005) for soprano, tenor, and piano was written for and is dedicated to Derek and Laura Chester. The work is a setting of a love poem by American poet Elizabeth Kirschner. The gentle, building ecstasy of the text is reflected in the musical setting.The score is for three performers, so three copies should be printed.
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The Sweetness
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Mary Ann Joyce
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The Sweetness
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Mary Ann Joyce-Walter
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.989237 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday. 6 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6209109. Published by M...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.989237 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Concert,Contemporary,Holiday. 6 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6209109. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989237). The Sweetness, Edward Hirsch, poem.4 minutes. Premiered at Voices Up: New Poems Sett to Music, Fordham University.2011. Permission to set to music by poet. A lover looks back at precious events that he/she and the beloved shared. The delightful text has several scenes - tender, funny, sentimental - but always filled with The Sweetness..
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I Dream of You, to Wake (Soprano or Tenor and Piano)
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I Dream of You, to Wake
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Hunter A. Brown
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1013578 Composed by Hunter A. Brown. Concert,Contemporary. 12 pages. Hunter A. Brown #6288243. Published by Hu...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1013578 Composed by Hunter A. Brown. Concert,Contemporary. 12 pages. Hunter A. Brown #6288243. Published by Hunter A. Brown (A0.1013578). I Dream of You, to Wake (soprano and piano) is an art song adaption of the sonnet by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). The poem comes from her sonnet of sonnets - Monna Innominata (unknown lady) - in which she laments her lack of religious compatibility with the man she loves.With a duration of 4'00 - this song is perfect for the adept soprano, and would be ideal for a solo and ensemble contest or college recital.Key: B major, F-sharp minorRange: C#4 - G#5 I would love to hear from you! For questions, comments, or information about commissions, please reach out to me at hbrowncomp@gmail.comText: I dream of you to wake: would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on. In happy dreams I hold you full in night. I blush again who waking look so wan; Brighter than sunniest day that ever shone, In happy dreams your smile makes day of night. Thus only in a dream we are at one, Thus only in a dream we give and take The faith that maketh rich who take or give; If thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake, To die were surely sweeter than to live, Though there be nothing new beneath the sun.
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Echo
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William Kersten
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Echo
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916016 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. William Kersten #3007529. Published by William K...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916016 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. William Kersten #3007529. Published by William Kersten (A0.916016). Individual song from Five Songs for Soprano - Song-Cycle by William Kersten Poem by Christina Rossetti　 Come to me in the silence of the night;Come in the speaking silence of a dream;Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as brightAs sunlight on a stream;Come back in tears,Oh memory, hope, love of finished years.Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;Where thirsting longing eyesWatch the slow doorThat opening, letting in, lets out no more.Yet come to me in dreams, that I may liveMy very life again though cold in death.Come back to me in dreams, that I may givePulse for pulse, breath for breath:Speak low, lean low,As long ago, my love, how long ago.
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"There is dew for the flowret..."
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William Kersten
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916018 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 2 pages. William Kersten #3007559. Published by William K...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916018 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 2 pages. William Kersten #3007559. Published by William Kersten (A0.916018). Individual song from Five Songs for Soprano - Song-Cycle by William Kersten Poem by Thomas Hood (1799-1845) There is dew for the flowretAnd honey for the bee,And bowers for the wild bird,And love for you and me.There are tears for the manyAnd pleasures for the few;But let the world pass on, dear,There's love for me and you.
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Birthday
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William Kersten
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Birthday
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William Kersten
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916015 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. William Kersten #3007519. Published by William K...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916015 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 6 pages. William Kersten #3007519. Published by William Kersten (A0.916015). Individual song from Five Songs for Soprano - Song-Cycle by William Kersten Poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 　 My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a watered shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all theseBecause my love is come to me.Raise me a dais of silk and down;Hang it with vair and purple dyes;Carve it in doves and pomegranates,And peacocks with a hundred eyes;Work it in gold and silver grapes,In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;Because the birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.
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"We do lie beneath the grass..."
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William Kersten
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William Kersten
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916020 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 2 pages. William Kersten #3007561. Published by William K...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - SKU: A0.916020 Composed by William Kersten. 20th Century,Contemporary. 2 pages. William Kersten #3007561. Published by William Kersten (A0.916020). Individual song from Five Songs for Soprano - Song-Cycle by William Kersten Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) 　 We do lie beneath the grassIn the moonlight, in the shadeOf the yew-tree.They that pass Hear us not.We are afraidThey would envy our delight, in our graves by glow-worm night.Come follow us, and smile as we;We sail to the rock in the ancient waves,Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea,And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.
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Serenade
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Christopher Benfield
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Serenade
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Christopher Benfield
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 5 - SKU: A0.909882 Composed by Christopher Benfield. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. 6 pages. Christopher Benfield #429...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 5 - SKU: A0.909882 Composed by Christopher Benfield. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. 6 pages. Christopher Benfield #4292981. Published by Christopher Benfield (A0.909882). Serenade is the famous poem by the same name by Paul Verlaine set to music for piano accompaniment and soprano soloist. This extremely languid and evocative art song was written with the similarly evocative text in mind, presenting images of love and the praise of beauty. This piece is recommended for advanced singers.
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Eurydice to Orpheus
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Robert A
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Eurydice to Orpheus
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Robert A. Howard
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - SKU: A0.998870 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. 8 pag...
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High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - SKU: A0.998870 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. 8 pages. Robert A. Howard #6348473. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998870). This short song for soprano and piano sets a poem by Robert Browning. The work principally uses the octatonic scale in a series of scalic semiquaver figurations, mainly in the right hand of the piano part. They seek to depict the sense of panic in the protagonist Eurydice as she seeks to see the face of her beloved, Orpheus. The declamatory vocal line develops a small number of key phrases and motifs. Meanwhile, the left hand of the piano part provides rhythmic interplay and interjects with occasional staccato bare fifths and octaves. The piece is appropriate for most standards of solo female voice whilst the piano accompaniment is best suited to advanced players.
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The Unquiet Grave from American Death Ballads (Downloadable)
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David Conte
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The Unquiet Grave from America
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E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
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High voice and piano - Moderately Difficult - SKU: MQ.8454-2E Composed by David Conte. Secular, 21st century. Instrument part. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer M...
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High voice and piano - Moderately Difficult - SKU: MQ.8454-2E Composed by David Conte. Secular, 21st century. Instrument part. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8454-2E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8454-2E). English.American Death Ballads was composed especially for tenor Brian Thorsett. We have been frequent collaborators since 2011, when he premiered the complete set of my Three Settings of W. B. Yeats for string quartet and tenor. At his urging, I transcribed and published my Three Poems of Christina Rossetti (originally for medium voice) for high voice, which he premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory in 2014. American Death Ballads was premiered by him at the San Francisco Conservatory, November 1, 2015, with pianist John Churchwell, and at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago, July 10, 2016, with pianist Warren Jones.The choice of texts for my American Death Ballads was inspired partly by Copland’s Old American Songs, which I deeply admire, but more by my dear friend and colleague the late Conrad Susa’s Two Murder Ballads. The ingenuity of Susa’s accompaniments for his ballads in imagining anew the original source material owes a great deal to Copland’s accompaniment for his songs. Though the content of my songs is completely original and not based on preexisting melodies, I have tried to expand on this further, as the texts are much longer, and go through many different moods and characters. The four texts I chose include stories about murder, death, and dying. Though two of the texts were written in England, they traveled to the colonies almost immediately. The subjects of the texts had spent time in America, and their stories were well known to Americans.Wicked Polly is a cautionary tale. Polly has lived a dissolute and immoral life, saying, 'I'll turn to God when I grow old.' Suddenly taken ill, she realizes that it is too late to repent. She dies in agony and is presumably sent to hell; young people are advised to heed. My musical setting is stately and preacherly in character for the narrator; for Polly it becomes pleading and remorseful. The Unquiet Grave was brought to the attention of Alan Lomax, the great American field collector of folk music, by English folk singer Shirley Collins. The text is taken from an English folk song dating from 1400. In The Unquiet Grave, a young man mourns his dead lover too fervently and prevents her from obtaining peace. The dead woman complains that his weeping is keeping her from peaceful rest. He begs a kiss; she tells him it would kill him. When he persists, wanting to join her in death, she explains that once they were both dead their hearts would simply decay, and that he should enjoy life while he has it. My setting is in a flowing Andante with a rocking accompaniment. Three voices are delineated here: the narrator, the mournful lover, and the dead lover speaking from the grave. The Dying Californian first appeared in the New England Diadem in 1854. Its lyrics are based on a letter from a New Englander’s sailor to his brother who is dying at sea while on the way to California to seek his fortune in the California gold fields. He implores his brother to impart his message to his father, mother, wife, and children. My setting opens with the singer alone in a moderate dirge tempo, then, joined by the piano, moves through many tonalities and moods before ending with supreme confidence as the speaker 'gained a port called Heaven/Where the gold will never rust.'Captain Kidd was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy and murder in 1701. The American connection to this ballad is that Kidd escaped to America and for a time lived in New York and Boston, though he was a wanted criminal by the British authorities and was extradited to Britain, where he was hung at 'Executioner’s Dock.' The lyric was printed in Britain in 1701, traveling to the colonies almost immediately. Though the didactic tone of the text is similar to Wicked Polly, it expresses no regret until the final lines: 'Take warning now by me, and shun bad company, / Lest you come to hell with me, for I must die.' My setting is fast and spirited, expressing the confidence of a man who lived life as he wanted. -David Conte.
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