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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Sympathy) (Duet for Soprano and Alto solo)
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501165 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501165 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,Opera. 6 pages. Published by Exultet Music (A0.501165). Sympathy is an 1899 poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar, one of the most prominent African-American writers of his time, wrote the poem around while he was working in unpleasant conditions at the Library of Congress. The poem is often considered to be about the struggle of African-Americans. Scored as a duet for a Soprano and an Alto solo with Piano accompaniment. Accessible and appropriate for any school or concert setting.
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Sympathy) (Duet for Soprano and Tenor solo)
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Vocal duet, Piano
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Stephen DeCesare
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501202 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501202 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,Opera. 6 pages. Published by Exultet Music (A0.501202). Sympathy is an 1899 poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar, one of the most prominent African-American writers of his time, wrote the poem around while he was working in unpleasant conditions at the Library of Congress. The poem is often considered to be about the struggle of African-Americans. Scored as a duet for a Soprano and Tenor solo with Piano accompaniment. Accessible and appropriate for any school or concert setting.
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Sympathy) (Duet for Tenor and Bass solo)
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Vocal duet, Piano
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Stephen DeCesare
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501204 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.501204 By Stephen DeCesare. By Stephen DeCesare. Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,Opera. 6 pages. Published by Exultet Music (A0.501204). Sympathy is an 1899 poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar, one of the most prominent African-American writers of his time, wrote the poem around while he was working in unpleasant conditions at the Library of Congress. The poem is often considered to be about the struggle of African-Americans. Scored as a duet for a Tenor and Bass solo with Piano accompaniment. Accessible and appropriate for any school or concert setting.
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Shakhar Avakesh'kha (Early Will I Seek You)
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Vocal duet, Piano
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Sacred music
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Erik Contzius
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Shakhar Avakesh'kha
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Erik Contzius
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.500795 Composed by Erik Contzius. 20th Century,Classical,Jewish,Praise & Worship,Sacred. 5 pages....
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Digital Download SKU: A0.500795 Composed by Erik Contzius. 20th Century,Classical,Jewish,Praise & Worship,Sacred. 5 pages. Published by Erik Contzius (A0.500795). Duet for Soprano and Congregation or Soprano and Medium Voice. Setting of the poem by Solomon Ibn Gabriol (11th Century).
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If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free
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Rachel J
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If You Can Prove That I Should
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Rachel J Peters
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Piano,Voice Duet Mezzo-Soprano Voice,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1302231 Composed by Rachel J. Peters. 21st Century,Classical,Opera. 33 pa...
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Piano,Voice Duet Mezzo-Soprano Voice,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1302231 Composed by Rachel J. Peters. 21st Century,Classical,Opera. 33 pages. Rachel J Peters #891836. Published by Rachel J Peters (A0.1302231). Song cycle for 2 sopranos and up to 5 non-singing narrators Texts by Alice Duer Miller and Frances Ellen Watkins HarperDURATION: 14 minutesWORLD PREMIERE: Albany Symphony’s Dogs of Desire, Spring 2019Settings of suffrage-era satirist Alice Duer Miller’s poems are framed by underscored excerpts from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “We Are All Bound Up Together†speech. The songs can be performed without the narration/underscoring movements between them.
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Il Tramonto ... Shelley-Ascoli (2022) full score
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Vocal duet, Piano
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Il Tramonto ... Shelley-Ascoli
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898494 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. 30 pages. Thom...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898494 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary. 30 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #504802. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.898494). Full score. I am a frequent visitor to the Protestant Cemetery in Testaccio, Rome. Shelley, Keats and Corso are buried there among other expatriates who adopted the city of Rome as their own. I am a not a huge fan of the music by Ottorino Respighi, whose work, like the Pines of Rome, reminds too much of Hollywood music scores. But I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered on YouTube a chamber work he wrote for mezzo-soprano and string quartet called “Il Tramonto.†The vocal and string writing are exquisite, quite beautiful and heart-felt. When I looked at the source of the text I saw that it was an Italian translation by Roberto Ascoli of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. That immediately inspired me to do my own musical setting of this poem. Two reasons. One, it has a Rome connection. Two, two of my favorite subjects in music are all there in one poem: love and death. Unfortunately I did not find the original English version to be sufficiently “musical.†The archaic language was a bit leaden and convoluted. On the other hand, the Italian translation is so much more lyrical and transcendental. I divided the poem into five parts. At the end I decided to tag on a text I have wanted to set for quite some time: Media Vita. I think the subject of this Latin text fits beautifully as a coda or “apotheosis†to Il Tramonto. I. Moderato … Già v’ebbe un uomo II. Andante … Ora è sommerso il sole III. Adagio … Il given e la dama giacquer tra il sonno IV. Moderato … Neri gli occhi ma non fulgidi più V. Adagio … Ho tal retaggio che la terra non dà VI. Apotheosis: Largo … Media Vita Enjoy!!!
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Quarry Songs
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Vocal duet, Piano
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Brett L
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Quarry Songs
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Sonata Grendel Publishing
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Piano,Voice Duet Baritone Horn TC,Piano,Soprano voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1101414 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Chamber,Classical,Contempor...
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Piano,Voice Duet Baritone Horn TC,Piano,Soprano voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1101414 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Multicultural,World. 52 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #704802. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.1101414). I. Hammering on Rocks text by Joseph Ross II. Normal text by Reginald Harris III. My Body Holds Stones text by Laura Tohe IV. The Museum of Stones text by Carolyn Forché. Quarry Songs were written as a project initiated by my long-time friend and colleague, Mark Evans. Mark and I have spent hundreds of hours rehearsing and performing together so when he asked me to participate in a project to create a song cycle as part of a residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire, I said yes immediately. Joining us were former students, now colleagues, Areli Mendoza-Pannone (soprano) and Robert Frazier (baritone). During our residency at Avaloch, the trio and I organized Zoom meetings with the poets and work-shopped many sections of the songs. I am immensely grateful for the contributions Mark, Areli, and Bobby made to this piece. I am especially indebted to the four amazing poets for their powerful, inspiring poems. These are works of courage, honesty, and craftsmanship and I’m humbled by the writer’s trust and generosity as I attempt to add a dimension to their work that is worthy of the source. The poems represent varied American perspectives of the artifacts of human existence and the trajectory of our culture(s), the human capacity to grow numb to suffering, the weight and cost of identity—self imposed and projected—on ourselves, our nation, and our children. Most importantly the poems witness our power to change the world through art. These poems recall the courage of Nelson Mandela, the paralysis that comes with the twenty year old war in Afghanistan, the lasting wounds of inflicted upon children in boarding schools designed to eradicate native cultures, and the markers of war and suffering that call as much for hope as for remorse. I chose poets whose voices represent not only suppressed perspectives but also the voices of Americans born of privilege, willing to use the power of art to focus the readers’ minds on the rough truths of our shared history as Americans.
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La Décima Musa
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William Ortiz
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La Décima Musa
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William Ortiz
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009002 Composed by William Ortiz. 20th Century,Contemporary. 39 pages. William Ortiz #...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009002 Composed by William Ortiz. 20th Century,Contemporary. 39 pages. William Ortiz #6369967. Published by William Ortiz (A0.1009002). The text for “La Décima Musa†(2016) for Soprano, Mezzo and Piano, written by Amaya E. Ortiz, is inspired and influenced by the life and work of the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana Inés (1651-1695) was a controversial figure that defended women’s rights to education and was censured. Her defiance towards the Catholic Church at the time, led to all her books being confiscated. She has been since named “La Décima Musa†and has also been known as “El Phoenix de Méxicoâ€. The work is divided musically into ten sections of different character, each one preceded by a vocalized or brief instrumental interlude introducing each verse of the poem. The piece begins with a subtle, serene and contemplative vocalize in the tonality of F mayor and continues it’s musical discourse through modulations, rhythmic changes and imitative polyphony. The music reflects to a certain degree the neo baroque styling of the text, which in turn mirrors Sor Juana’s muse. The text transmits to me a phantasmagorical message that contains a great variety of metaphors and profound sentiment. I try to transform those words and thoughts into emotions and sensibilities through the miracle of what is music.
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Hänsel und Gretel
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Vocal duet, Piano
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the way, the ‘cock-a-doo
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Engelbert Humperdinck
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2 voices and piano - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q47807 Das Liederspiel. Composed by Engelbert Humperdinck. This edition: single sheet...
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2 voices and piano - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q47807 Das Liederspiel. Composed by Engelbert Humperdinck. This edition: single sheet. Singspiel version - fairy tale - Brothers Grimm - folk song - piano reduction - Hansel - Gretel - witch. Downloadable, Separate edition. Duration 55 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q47807. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47807). German.When Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel was premiered on 23 December 1893 in Weimar conducted by Richard Strauss, the work could look back on an extensive history of origin.Humperdinck’s younger sister Adelheid Wette (born in 1858) had displayed a great interest in literature in her youth and written a variety of poems for special occasions. In 1888, she wrote a fairy tale entitled Schneewittchen [Snow White] and her brother supplied some songs for this piece. Further fairy tale collaborations followed which were customarily performed within the family circle, and the first draft of the Hänsel und Gretel was begun in 1890. Adelheid’s husband would be celebrating his 34th birthday on 16 May of this year and his wife intended to surprise him with a performance of her version of this fairy tale. Her brother was allotted the task of composing the accompanying songs and, a month before the birthday, she wrote a letter to him in Mainz where Engelbert Humperdinck was among other activities working as an editor for the Schott publishing house, ordering a “very pretty folkloric†Tanzlied [Dance song], a Waldlied [Forest song] (or Echolied [Echo song]), a Schlummerlied [Lullaby] and a Kickericki-Lied [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] from her “dear sugar-sweet little brother... Engel-Bärtchen [angel beard]â€. She enclosed the corresponding verses with the letter and “for fun†also provided her own invented melody for the Schlummerlied and rhythmic suggestions for the Tanzlied. Humperdinck went straight to work and, as related in an entry in his diary, was already able to play the songs to the director of the publishing house, Dr Ludwig Strecker, by 19 April.This was the history of origin of the four songs published for the first time edited in form of their original versions in this edition Brüderchen komm’ tanz’ mit mir, Wer ruft mir im Walde doch alles nach, In den Zweigen die Vögelein und Tirelireli! ‘s ist nicht mehr früh “for two children’s voices and piano accompaniment†(see manuscript1). In his reply letter to his sister in which the fair copy of the songs were enclosed, Humperdinck wrote: “As you see, the pitch of the melodies is not too high and I have incorporated your melodies. Let me know soon whether you like the little songs. By the way, the ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ can also be sung on one note(E flat) instead of on the four notes of the chord.â€The first performance of the song-play was held as planned within the family circle with Wettes’ two eldest daughters in the two principle roles. Spurred on by the success of the family performance, initial plans were forged to adapt the song-play into a singspiel with numerous musical numbers and rhymed dialogues; Hermann Wette participated in a draft of the text. The particell of this singspiel had been completed by Christmas 1890. Hugo Wolf and a few others however advised the composer to extend the singspiel into a through-composed fairy tale opera. Humperdinck followed this advice and worked on what he ironically termed as a “Kinderstubenweihfestspiel“ [sacred festive play for the nursery] during the next two summers in Bayreuth. Tanzliedchen [Dance song] and Morgenweckruf [Cock-a-doodle-doo song] were eventually included in the opera in a modified form.Bevor Engelbert Humperdincks Märchenoper Hänsel und Gretel zum Welterfolg wurde, hatte das Werk bereits eine vielschichtige Entstehungsgeschichte hinter sich. Humperdincks Schwester Adelheid Wette schrieb 1890 ein gereimtes Märchenspiel gleichen Namens, welches sie gemeinsam mit ihren Töchtern im Familienkreis aufführte. Ihr Bruder hatte die entsprechenden vier Lieder dazu beigesteuert. Während Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir und Tirelireli in veränderter Form auch in die spätere Märchenoper eingingen, existieren das Schlummerliedchen und das Echo im Walde exklusiv in dieser Urfassung von Humperdincks Hänsel und Gretel. Diese Ausgabe umfasst Humperdincks vier ursprüngliche Lieder, die in dieser Fassung erstmals in editierter Form veröffentlicht werden, ebenso wie den vollständigen Text von Adelheid Wettes Liederspiel aus dem Jahr 1890.
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