Colin Eatock

Three American Poems About Love (2020)

Classical/Choral music • 2020 • Lyricist: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, James Russell Lowell

Three American Poems About Love (2020)

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Instrumentation	Mixed choir
Scored for	Choir
Type of score	Vocal score
Publisher	Colin Eatock
Language	English
Difficulty	Advanced
Duration	10'0

The composer writes: A few years before I composed these settings by three American poets, I composed my Four Elizabethan Songs About Love (2016-2018). The texts I’ve used in Three American Poems About Love (2020) bring us forward in time about three centuries from the Elizabethan poems, and transpose the location from England to the USA. However, like the poems in the Elizabethan set, the texts in my American set are not all conventional love songs. The first, “Invitation to Love” (by Paul Laurence Dunbar) is a glowing reflection on the nature of love itself, rather than an expression of love directed towards a specific other. The second, “Spring Night” (by Sara Teasdale) is a wistful reflection on lovelessness, despite the consolations of beauty. Only the third, “Our Love” (by James Russell Lowell) is a love song in the conventional sense: a profession of enduring love between two people.

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