SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT
10 Songs for Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
on Poems by Walter de la Mare

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8988

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Description
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT is a collection of 10 short songs on children’s poetry by the great English poet, Walter de la Mare. These poems are, by turns, fanciful, charming, humorous, endearing, ghostly, and mysterious, all seen through a child’s gentle innocence and a child’s awareness of detail and changing emotion and color. Suitable for soprano or mezzo-soprano, singers will enjoy the purity of expression and the directness of sentiment offered by de la Mare’s richly drawn poetic characters.

Text
1 – Daybreak
2 – Away Go We
3 – Double Dutch
4 – The Spotted Flycatcher
5 – The Ride-By-Nights
6 – Company
7 – Alas, Alack!
8 – Hide and Seek
9 – Silly Sallie
10 – The Song of Enchantment

Vocal Range
A 3  :  G-sharp 5

Duration
18′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
D 4  :  D 5

Year of Composition
1989

First Performance
May 9, 2004
Weisman Museum of Art
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

First Performers
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Sharon Johnson, piano