Soprano voice & piano SKU: HH.HH583-FSC Composed by Timothy Raymond. Full...(+)
Soprano voice & piano
SKU: HH.HH583-FSC
Composed by Timothy
Raymond. Full score.
Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH583-FSC.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH583-FSC).
ISBN
9790708185987.
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¬ËœShine Perishing
Republic’ is
perhaps the most
anthologized of all the
works by American poet
Robinson Jeffers
(1887–1962). Its
Whitmanesque tone and
rhetoric are here
reflected in a
sonata-like first
movement form. Influenced
by the paintings of
Jackson Pollock, the
composer wished to
saturate his musical
canvas with explosive,
emotive events.
‘Evening
Ebb’ is a nature
scene. Musical metaphors
– symmetrical
chords, inversion
structures and canons
– are used to to
suggest the qualities of
sea and reflected sky
described so beautifully
in the poem.
Paradoxically, in spite
of these musical
conceits, the music
floats
impressionistically, for
the most part in stasis,
only developing in a
clear direction towards
the end.
Piano Accompaniment; Soprano (Soprano) SKU: HL.49046394 Songs for Sopr...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Soprano (Soprano)
SKU:
HL.49046394
Songs
for Soprano and
Piano. Composed by
Anno Schreier. Vocal
Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 48 pages.
Duration 1200 seconds.
Schott Music #ED23190.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046394).
ISBN
9781540086570. UPC:
840126910186. 9.0x12.0
inches.
In 2010 I
lived in Rome as a Villa
Massimo scholarship
holder. During my time
there I came across a few
poems by Michelangelo
that touched me a lot and
soon had the plan to set
some of them to music.
But I wanted to combine
it with something
contemporary - just like
in Rome the old and the
new always meet. The poet
Marcel Beyer, whom I met
in Rome, then wrote the
cycle of poems Die
Grillmeisterin for me,
which takes up many
motifs from the
Michelangelo texts (fire,
tears, getting burned,
loneliness, etc.). I then
alternately combined this
cycle of poems with the
Michelangelo poems. The
Italian songs have a
sometimes melancholy,
sometimes dramatic
character, while the
German songs are rather
bizarre, sometimes even
humorous. Despite these
contrasts in character,
there are also many
musical connections
between the German and
Italian songs. Individual
motifs and chord
sequences sometimes
return in completely
different contexts, and
there is even a direct
connection between the
first and last song, in
that the same vocal line
is underlaid with a
completely different
text. This creates a
musical framework that
holds the very
heterogeneous selection
of texts together. -Anno
Schreier.