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Three Song Settings of Poems by Charlotte Mew (mezzo-soprano and piano)
Clássico/Canção • 2003 • Lírico: Charlotte Mew
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Three Song Settings of Poems by Charlotte Mew (mezzo-soprano and piano)
Instrumentação |
Piano, Mezzo-soprano |
Tipo de composição |
Partitura piano-vocal |
Editora |
Colin Bayliss |
idioma |
Inglês |
dificuldade |
Advanced |
duração |
11'0 |
These songs were written in May - June 2003 as entries for the English Poetry and Song Society Song-Writing Competition of that year. The three songs reflect the manic depressive nature of a poet who eventually committed suicide. 1: Absence - reflects the depressive side in a poem where the author seems to be seeking an excuse for death. 2: A Quoi Bon Dire - uses the concept that the poetess is either talking to her dead lover or thinks that she is actually dead herself. The setting is a danse macabre and uses half-quotations from Offenbach, Beethoven, Wagner and Satie and is playfully marked Vivo. 3: In The Fields - is a hymn-like setting of a poem which seems to reject the concept of an afterlife.
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