IN SPRING

IN SPRING
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.

Text
1 – O sweet spontaneous
2 – but the other
3 – in Just—

Vocal Range
A-flat 3  :  B-flat 5

Duration
8′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
E 4  :  E 5

Year of Composition
2016

First Performance
February 15, 2018
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania

First Performers
Amy Petrongelli, soprano

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Amy Petrongelli, soprano