For voice and guitar. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics, guitar tablat...(+)
For voice and guitar.
Format: fakebook. With
vocal melody, lyrics,
guitar tablature, chord
names, guitar chord
diagrams and strum and
pick patterns. Christmas
and holiday. Series: Hal
Leonard Fake Books. 189
pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
Guitar and voice - Intermediate SKU: DY.DO-1538 Composed by David Leisner...(+)
Guitar and voice -
Intermediate
SKU:
DY.DO-1538
Composed
by David Leisner. Score.
Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan #DO 1538.
Published by Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan
(DY.DO-1538).
ISBN
9782897963187.
When
guitarist John Olson and
soprano Gioia De Cari
commissioned me to write
a piece for them, I envi-
sioned writing something
theatrical that might
especially suit Gioia,
who is both a singer and
an actress. Eventually, I
thought of Mark Twain.
The great American writer
and humorist of substance
wrote a short,
little-known book called
The Diary of Adam and
Eve, which is, of course,
about the first days of
human life on this earth,
in Twainâs witty,
but touching take on the
Bible story. Adam and Eve
each write diary entries.
I chose several passages
from Eveâs diary
that convey the sense of
constant wonder that she
felt because absolutely
everything in her world
was new.
Setting
prose, rather than
poetry, is a challenge
for a composer because it
has neither the innate
rhythm nor the lyricism
of poetry. On some
intuitive level, this
challenge led me to a
process that allowed the
music to evolve mostly
from the guitar part.
Whereas normally the
vocal melody might emerge
first, motivated by the
text and with the
accompaniment then added
for support, here the
guitar part was the prime
mover. An example of this
is the last song, which
is a passacaglia played
by the guitar, providing
the ground over which the
vocal line can soar.
Eveâs Diary was
composed in
2015.