3 Songs for Unaccompanied Soprano
on poems by E. E. Cummings
Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Catalog Number
8570
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Description
“In Spring” is a short song cycle using a solo (unaccompanied) voice to vocalize the fanciful and magical poems of E. E. Cummings with glissandi, whistling, ghostly whispered notes and long melismas drawing out the sounds inside words, stretching them like taffy…all these types of extended techniques are added to beautifully sung lyrical phrases to capture the playfulness and variety of the season of Spring.
Texts
1 – O sweet spontaneous
2 – but the other
3 – in Just—
Year of Composition
2016
Duration
8 minutes
Dedication
Amy Petrongelli
First Performance
February 15, 2018
Penn State University
State College, PA
Amy Petrongelli, soprano
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Amy Petrongelli, soprano
O sweet spontaneous
but the other
in Just—
(no recording of this song is available)