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Five Edward Thomas Songs: set 2 For high voice and piano, op. 126
RSN:
69750
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Composition Date:
2011
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:11:10
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Call Number
MV 1101 H434fiv
Genre
Solo Voice with Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2015-06-10
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
Movements
I. Song - Early one morning
II. The Pond
III. Women he liked
IV. The trumpet
V. Will you come?
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Additional Information
Text by Edward Thomas
Master Location
Toronto
Language
English
First line of Text
Early one morning in May I set out
,
Bright clouds of may
,
Women he likes, did shovelbearded
,
Rise up, rise up
,
Will you come?
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
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Extent of Item
1 score (24 p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
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Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
49528
Voices
High voice
1
49528
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Contents I Song - Early one Morning (2'25") I 2 The Pond (2'05") 7 3 Women he Liked (2'30") 10 4 The Trumpet (2'18") 15 5 Will you Come? (l '50") 19 Total Duration 11' 10" This second group of
Five Edward Thomas Songs
opens with a setting of a poem simply entitled
Song,
and which begins by quoting the well-known English folk-song
Early one Morning,
as well as a phrase from the chorus of the sea shanty
The Rio Grande.
The poem almost certainly records, albeit in a light-hearted fashion, Thomas leaving home to join the military front in Northern France. The poem ends with the prophetic words,
I'm bound away for ever.
With the exception of the final
Will you Come,
each of these poems was written during the final months of the poet's life. This is followed by
The Pond
, in which Thomas describes a may tree (hawthorn) shedding its blossoms over a pond on a warm Spring day. The song opens with short descending roulades on the piano evoking the falling blossoms - this unit also appears at the close of the song. I first set this text while still a student in London, but none of that earlier version is contained in this setting.
Women he Liked
tells of a farmer who lined a country lane with elm trees, and which, since his death deteriorated to a slough. I knew such a lane when young, passing along it on the way to school. The melody could almost be described as a study in folk song, but is somewhat freer rhythmically, it may be sung unaccompanied.
The Trumpet
, perhaps the strongest of Thomas's poems, is a sardonic look at an officer talking to his men before joining battle - it ends with the lines
Up with the light, To the old wars; Arise, arise!
The accompaniment opens with an imitation of a tenor drum's slow marching rhythm in A flat, the voice then enters in F major, singing mainly pitches from a bugle's limited repertoire of notes. The text of the final song
Will you Come?
was written slightly earlier in the poet's life, and in which, the poet requests his love to ride at his side (into battle?), perhaps bringing to mind
The Song of Songs
, or Tagore's
Gitanjali
. The accompaniment consists of constantly fast, quarter-notes; often using triplets against duplets in E natural minor - there are no foreign accidentals. Some of the basic ideas for this group came while working on the first set of songs, but were laid to one side since their intensity was such that in clashed with the calmer, more pastoral mood of the work then in progress. This work is dedicated to Liana Valente, who was a good friend of the first set of Edward Thomas Songs. Edward Thomas, who was born in 1878, made his living as a freelance writer reviewing new works for various London literary publications. He encountered Robert Frost in a London pub, and the two straight away struck up a friendship. Frost realised the worth of Thomas's literary skills and persuaded him to try his hand at writing poetry instead of prose; his resulting output of some 140 poems was produced in less than two years. Thomas enlisted in the army in April 1917 and was struck by a shell near Arras and died. Walter De La Mere wrote in the 1920 edition of Thomas's poetry that when he was killed a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it can be found no other where than in these poems. Derek Healey January 3rd 2011, Brooklyn, NY
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Toronto
01TO69750
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