Lori Laitman

The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs — for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies)

Clássico/Canção • 1991 • Lírico: Sara Teasdale

The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs — for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies)

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The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs — for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies): The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs — for soprano and piano (priced for 2 copies) by Lori Laitman

Sheet music file
20.00 USD

vendedor Lori Laitman

PDF, 2.69 Mb ID: SM-000508666 data do carregamento: 27 jun 2020

Instrumentação	Piano, Soprano
Composição para	Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento
Tipo de composição	Partitura piano-vocal
Editora	Enchanted Knickers Music
idioma	Inglês
dificuldade	Medium
duração	12'0

The Metropolitan Tower, the first art song that I ever composed, was written at the request of Lauren Wagner for inclusion on her debut CD. I listened to many art songs for guidance, and read a lot of poetry. I was happy to discover Sara Teasdale, whose simple lyricism had an immediate appeal. I was also attracted to the music of Paul Bowles, and patterned The Metropolitan Tower on his song Secret Words — by using melody as the primary force with a simple accompaniment that often doubled the vocal line. The opening textural sparseness and dissonance of the accompaniment in A Winter Night sets the mood for the winter imagery of the poem. The use of sustained pedal in Old Tunes creates an blurred sound atmosphere, conjuring the image of a fragrances floating in the air or sounds recalled through memory. The shifting harmonies and meters of The Strong House create a feeling of instability as a commentary on the text. Lush harmonies are the hallmark of The Hour, which, like The Metropolitan Tower, is a reflection on a woman's first discovery of love (and which is also dedicated to my husband). The syncopated rhythms and chromatic harmonies in the piano part of To A Loose Woman set a sly background for the dramatic vocal line.

There are various recordings of these songs, which can be found on Spotify or YouTube.

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