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A Little Tooth — for mezzo-soprano (or soprano) and piano (priced for 2 copies)
Clássico/Canção • 2023 • Lírico: Thomas Lux
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A Little Tooth — for mezzo-soprano (or soprano) and piano (priced for 2 copies)
Instrumentação |
Piano, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano |
Composição para |
Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento |
Tipo de composição |
Partitura piano-vocal |
Editora |
Enchanted Knickers Music |
idioma |
Inglês |
duração |
3'0 |
Years ago, when my daughter Diana Rosenblum was in high school, she introduced me to the poetry of Thomas Lux. As a result, in 2000, I used his poetry to compose my comic song cycle Men With Small Heads.
Now it’s 2023. My daughter has a PhD in music composition from Eastman. She is a fabulous composer, an incredible person, and my joy and inspiration. For her upcoming 40th birthday, I wanted to write her a song. I remembered that I still had some outstanding permissions for other poems by Tom — and it seemed like
A Little Tooth was the perfect choice for the occasion.
The song’s opening rocking accompaniment creates the feeling of a lullaby and the voice enters, joining with this motion. The vocal range expands, culminating in a miniature cadenza. Here the narrator comments on the inevitability of his daughter’s growth, before amusingly imagining her future life events. A slower, sweetly harmonic section mirrors the narrator’s contentment. The voice again rises to a mini-cadenza (mirroring the first), before returning to original rocking motif.
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