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Thy distant fire An Edgar Allan Poe songbook, op 123
RSN:
69417
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Composition Date:
2010
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:18:15
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MV 1101 H434thy
Genre
Solo Voice with Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2015-02-11
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
Movements
1. Eldorado 2. Evening Star 3. To F: 4. Sancta Maria! 5. To the River 6. To Zante 7. Serenade 8. Lines on Ale
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Master Location
Toronto
Language
English
First line of Text
Gayly bedight, a gallant knight
,
Twas noontide of summer
,
Beloved! Amid the earnest woes
,
Sancta Maria
,
Fair river in thy bright
,
Fairisle, that from the fairest of all flowers
,
So sweet the hour, so calm the time
,
Fill with mingled cream and amber
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
1 score
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
49154
Voices
Soprano
1
49154
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
November 5, 2010. Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon, USA. Nancy Wood (soprano), Paul Safar (piano).
This songbook, which was written for the American soprano Nancy Wood, was started at the end of October 2009 and completed on January 15th 2010. The set malees use of nineteenth centuryfiguration in the accompaniment, such as fast, right hand repeated chords, in a desire to recapture the musical mood of Poe's time. The first song, Eldorado, tells of "A gallant knight, gayly bedight," who spends his life searching for the legendary city, and who, in old age, encounters a shade and asked him how he should proceed. The song is pitched in D minor, the piano part makes much use of syncopation. This is followed by Evening Star, a poem in praise of the planet Venus, closing with "And more I admire Thy distant fire, than that colder, lowly light." The planet along with the moon, are seen by the poet at noon in summer. The song is a slow C major Pastorale. The next song To F: is one of a number of Poe's poems dedicated to various loves, aptly written in the key of F major. The singer likens her to "some enchanted far-off isle" (which links it to the sixth song To Zante). Sancta Maria! follows, this prayer is taken from Poe's short story 'Morella', and which tells of a nun's desire to experience the then forbidden fruit of mysticism. The song is in D major and in a calm 3/4. In the fifth song To the River in Poe likens a brook to his love. The accompaniment consists of a fast moving sixteenth note continuum in 9/8, over which floats the longer notes of the soprano melody in 6/8; the key is B Dorian. This is followed by To Zanle in which Poe's sonnet is treated in an arioso manner, and is in F Lydian. The text describes the western Greek island, known also as Zakynthos. This beautiful isle reminds him "of a maiden that is no more!" Perhaps the most Romantic of the settings is Serenade with the piano's repeated chord accompaniment and counter melodic phrases. The key is C minor with a middle section in E Dorian. The set closes with Lines on Ale. This rambunctious drinking song is set in D minor, and tells of the glories of drinking ale with "its mingled cream and amber, and in which hilarious visions clamber through the chamber" of the poet's brain. It is set in D minor and mal(es much use of cross rhythms, trills, fast scales and anticipatory notes. Performance Note Volume indications in the voice part are really more a state of mind than of actual decibel levels. A crescendo may frequently be executed simply by an increase of vocal tension, with little change in the actual volume level. Because of tl,e nature of tlle final song, it may be omitted if the singer feels ill at ease with the tenor of the text. Derek Healey January 19th 2010 (Poe's birthday)
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