Piano Accompaniment;
Vocal (VOICE/PIANO)
SKU: HL.48025392
Voice and Piano.
Composed by Ursula
Mamlok. Boosey & Hawkes
Voice. Classical.
Softcover. Duration 180
seconds. Bote & Bock
#M202536063. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025392).
UPC:
196288195443.
To
mark the 100th birthday
of Ursula Mamlok (1923
– 2016), Boosey
& Hawkes Bote &
Bock, in collaboration
with the Dwight and
Ursula Mamlok Foundation,
is publishing a series of
works from the composer's
estate that were not
published during her
lifetime. This volume
brings together four
aphoristic songs from
1946 and 1950, which show
Mamlok to be an early
(and then lifelong)
mistress of the small
form and are all the more
interesting because vocal
music plays rather a
minor role in the
composer's oeuvre. Here
she responds to the
poetry and the way of
thinking of her adopted
homeland of only a few
years, with English texts
of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. The
themes and attitudes are
as varied as their
authors, from the idyll
of nature to the snapshot
of a party to the
grotesque nursery rhyme,
each of which is put into
music by Mamlok just as
sparingly as
fittingly.