JULIANA HALL | AMERICAN ART SONG COMPOSER

SENTIMENT : SOPRANO VERSION

SENTIMENT : SOPRANO VERSION
Monodrama for Unaccompanied Soprano

on a Libretto by Caitlin Vincent

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8849

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Description
Juliana Hall decided to set poet Caitlin Vincent’s text — SENTIMENT — for a solo unaccompanied soprano singer, creating a monodrama (her first), because she felt the raw emotions expressed in Vincent’s text required a more direct communication from singer to audience than a piece with piano or another instrument might allow. In describing her text, Vincent writes,

“The general premise is emotions but also about the version of ourselves we try to present to the world. Each song leads into the next: giddy happiness followed by the inevitable plunge into depression, then anger and embarrassment for revealing too much to the audience, remorse for lashing out, and finally a plea for the world to see only the singer’s ‘best’ side.”

Text
1 – Prologue
2 – Joy
3 – Sorrow
4 – Anger
5 – Remorse
6 – Epilogue

Vocal Range
A 3  :  C-sharp 6

Duration
12′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
E 4  :  E 5


Commission
Caitlin Vincent

First Performance
April 27, 2019
Calliope’s Call
Old West Church
Boston, Massachusetts

Year of Composition
2017

First Performer
Laura Dixon Strickling, soprano

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Laura Dixon Strickling, soprano