SKU: SU.19010040
Nine songs for voice and piano Contents: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose, Split the Lark, Exultation is the Going, On This Wondrous Sea, Adrift! A Little Boat Adrift!, Exhilaration, My River Runs to Thee, Far from Love, It's All I Have to Bring Today Composed: 1990 Published by: Heart Earth Music.
SKU: ST.Y291
ISBN 9790220223372.
CONT ENTS 1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g) 2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp) 3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat) 4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g) For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings, 'Blackbird', 'The moon is distant' (Dickinson), 'Bird in hand' and 'On not being able to look at the moon' unfolds a symmetrical structure of contrasting yet interlocking moods in which the reflective second and fourth numbers, lunar visions of mystic tranquillity flawed by doubt and pain, temper with human frailty the bright epiphanies of the first and third songs. There is a fascinating challenge here for the performer to embrace both elation and gravitas in a single reading, Samuel's vigorous musical invention binding the developing web of feeling with its own formal strengths and subtly illustrative moments. In the version for string quartet, flute and harp, first performed by Contemporary Connections on 4 November 2011 at St James's Church Piccadilly, the flute takes a prominent role throughout. Violins, viola and cello at times elaborate on the simpler textures of the keyboard version, though the two scores remain entirely compatible. The bluesy harmonies of the concluding number, whether weighted by sonorous string quartet or profiled in edgier piano chords, bring the cycle to a sombre conclusion with a proper sense of an emotional world traversed.
SKU: ST.Y292
ISBN 9790220223389.
CONT ENTS 1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g) 2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp) 3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat) 4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g).
SKU: ST.W201
ISBN 9790220219061.
Rhia n Samuel is a co-editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers and Professor of Music at London's City University. She is an accomplished writer of choral music for amateur and student choirs. Women's poetry is often the inspiration for her work, as is Lovesongs and Observations, six settings of poems by Emily Dickinson.
SKU: OU.9780193528116
ISBN 9780193528116. 12 x 8 inches.
These two contrasing songs, setting poems by Emily Dickinson, are highly contrasting. 'Summer' is meditative and nostalgic, whilst 'Hope' is mercurial and fleet-footed, evoking the skittering of a bird.
SKU: PR.111402760
9 x 12 inches. Text: Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson.
A set of nine songs on poems of Emily Dickinson, matched beautifully by Hailstork's musical text. Emotional scenery runs from Dickinson's playful side to the deeply moving If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking. Also available: Voice and Piano (111-40276).
SKU: PR.111402770
UPC: 680160669592. Text: Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson.
SKU: GI.WW1607
UPC: 888680603496. English. Text by Emily Dickinson.
A multi-movement work for choir, piano, and cello from Alice Parker using several Emily Dickinson poems. Expertly crafted vocals that are both complex and singable. The piano is supportive and yet exists as its own entity. The cello soars above as a heavenly voice. A fantastic selection for high school, university, and community choirs.
SKU: SU.50502350
4 Songs on poems by Sara Teasdale and Emily Dickinson.Mezzo-Soprano, Viola & Piano Duration: 13' Composed: 2022 Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: GH.GE-11382
ISBN 979-0-070-11382-3. A4 inches.
