PARTITIONS GRATUITES : VOIX SOPRANO ET PIANO
- Unrequited Love

Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, tenor voice

SKU: PR.11140139S

For Tenor, Flute, String Quartet and Piano. Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Poems by William Butler Yeats. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40139S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140139S).

UPC: 680160002887. Poems by William Butler Yeats.

This work was commissioned by Susan and Elihu Rose. It was written at the request of tenor Robert White, to whom it is dedicated. It was premiered at Alice Tully Hall on February 17, 1993 by Robert White, James Galway, the Lark Quartet and pianist Brian Zeger. It was actually Miss Alice Tully's suggestion that some settings of Yeats would be lovely that prompted me to look at these poems. I was at once struck by their intense lyric beauty and decided immediately to use them for this work. The six poems were chosen from Yeats' 1899 collection The Wind Among the Reeds. Dealing with unrequited love, these particular poems have hints of the mystic preoccupations which were to become more prominent in Yeats' later work. Scored for an ensemble consisting of Flute, Piano and String Quartet, it was my intention that the beauty and clarity of the poetry should be matched by a directness of musical expression which would not overwhelm the poems. The instrumental writing makes no attempt at tone painting but rather provides a colorful but often austere psychological background to the tenor's melodies which are at times almost folk-like in their simplicity. The work is unified as a cycle not only by its tonal structure, but also through harmonic and motivic elements that the individual songs share.

Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, tenor voice

SKU: PR.111401390

For Tenor, Flute, String Quartet and Piano. Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Saddle. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1992. Opus 40. 44+7+7+8+8+8 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40139. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111401390).

UPC: 680160002863. 9 x 12 inches. Poems by William Butler Yeats.

This work was commissioned by Susan and Elihu Rose. It was written at the request of tenor Robert White, to whom it is dedicated. It was premiered at Alice Tully Hall on February 17, 1993 by Robert White, James Galway, the Lark Quartet and pianist Brian Zeger. It was actually Miss Alice Tully's suggestion that some settings of Yeats would be lovely that prompted me to look at these poems. I was at once struck by their intense lyric beauty and decided immediately to use them for this work. The six poems were chosen from Yeats' 1899 collection The Wind Among the Reeds. Dealing with unrequited love, these particular poems have hints of the mystic preoccupations which were to become more prominent in Yeats' later work. Scored for an ensemble consisting of Flute, Piano and String Quartet, it was my intention that the beauty and clarity of the poetry should be matched by a directness of musical expression which would not overwhelm the poems. The instrumental writing makes no attempt at tone painting but rather provides a colorful but often austere psychological background to the tenor's melodies which are at times almost folk-like in their simplicity. The work is unified as a cycle not only by its tonal structure, but also through harmonic and motivic elements that the individual songs share.

Chamber Music Flute, Guitar, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.14440686S

For Flute, Guitar, And String Quartet. Composed by David Leisner. Premiered at the Ravinia Festival, Chicago, Cavatina Duo and the Avalon String Quartet. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2015. 54 pages. Duration 17 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40686S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440686S).

UPC: 680160639366. 9 x 12 inches.

Flute and guitar duo, along with string quartet, perform three movements based on Sephardic folk songs. The common theme is love just out of reach: the sad hope of finding love, the unrequited love for an older woman, the spurned love of the unfaithful (Searching, rejection, and loss, as Leisner says). The relevant folk songs are stated within each of the pieces - at the beginning of the first, in the middle of the second, at the end of the third, and are used as the base for Leisner's stream-of-conciousness meditations..

SSATB choir, a cappella (SATB) - Easy to Moderately Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193407855

Composed by Cecilia McDowall. Secular Choral - Mixed Voices. New Horizons. Vocal score. 12 pages. Duration 4'. Oxford University Press #9780193407855. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193407855).

ISBN 9780193407855. 10 x 7 inches.

For SATB unaccompanied Setting a well-known poem by Percy Shelley, Love's Philosophy is a sweet and tender choral song reflecting on the idea of love with reference to nature and the interdependent relationships evident in the world around us. Mellifluous choral writing and sighing interjections convey the theme of unrequited or lost love.

Soprano voice & basso continuo

SKU: HH.HH108-FSP

Composed by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Edited by Michael Talbot. Voice (Soprano) & Basso Continuo. Full score and parts. Duration 9 minutes. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH108-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH108-FSP).

ISBN 9790708041665.

The poetic theme of the cantata is the well worn one of unrequited love. In the opening aria, the singer challenges the God of Love to battle. This is a true aria di battaglia in which the singer mimics the idiom of the trumpet. Indeed, the first seven bars of the vocal part, transposed up a whole tone, would suit a Baroque trumpet in C excellently. The protagonist, whose persona is male (although that fact did not then, and does not today, disqualify the cantata from performance by female sopranos), confesses his love smitten state in a brief recitative.

By Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Arranged by Douglas McLain. For Mezzo Soprano / Baritone and Concert Band. Grade 4. Full score and set of parts. Duration 18:00. Published by Baton Music

By Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Arranged by Douglas McLain. For Mezzo Soprano / Baritone and Concert Band. Grade 4. Score. Duration 18:00. Published by Baton Music