SKU: SU.26180010
These sixteen songs are a selection of those I've composed over the course of several decades. The texts are primarily by Americans, including William Carlos Williams, James Wright, and Elizabeth Bishop, though three are by British poets. The subject of most of the songs is the natural world and, often, humans' interaction with it. There are also several that merely celebrate love. —William McClellandHigh Voice & Piano Composed: 2005-2014 Published by: WMC Music (BMI).
SKU: SU.50000530
High Voice & String Trio (Piano reduction) Text: Dryden, Prior, Sedley, Belli, Lockman, Hanbury-Williams, Anon Piano Reduction Composed: 1995 Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.227531
UPC: 680160421749. 8.5x11.0x0.049 inches.
SKU: HL.228554
UPC: 680160428571. 8.5x11 inches.
SKU: HL.227377
UPC: 680160420704. 9x12 inches.
SKU: EC.9278
UPC: 600313311185. English.
Songs of Love and Solace traces a young man's journey of love and heartbreak. The cycle of four texts by Irish poet William Butler Yeats begins with Brown Penny. This short poem depicts a young man infatuated with the idea of falling in love, and then becoming awestruck as he contemplates the depths of love’s power. In the second poem, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, the poet, speaking to his beloved, realizes he has nothing of value to offer but his dreams. Tread softly, he implores, because you tread on my dreams.” In When You Are Old, we find our poet heartbroken. In his grief he peers into the future and foresees his beloved, in old age, remembering the depth and purity of their forsaken love: “But one man love the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.” In the final song, The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” the poet, saddened but wiser, wistfully resolves to escape the struggles and heartbreaks of his modern existence, and seek solace in the beauty and calm of nature. Songs may be performed separately.
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