JULIE-JANE

JULIE-JANE
5 Songs for Baritone and Piano
on Poems by Thomas Hardy

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8580

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Description
An assortment of English country personalities inhabit this song cycle, which deals with the ideas of lost and betrayed love. The cycle begins with a ballad singer whom the speaker implores to sing as a way of making him forget the pain of losing one he loves. Julie-Jane is a young woman whom the speaker fondly remembers after she has passed on following the company of a number of men out of wedlock. A fiddler plays at a country dance, watching as dancers couple throughout the night, and then for life. Carrey Clavel is another woman, one who scorns the company of the speaker, and finally Rose-Ann, who has led the speaker on without telling him she is promised to another.

Text
1 – The Ballad Singer
2 – Julie-Jane
3 – The Fiddler
4 – To Carrey Clavel
5 – Rose-Ann

Vocal Range
C-sharp 3  :  F-sharp 4

Duration
24′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
G 3  :  D 4

Year of Composition
2007

First Performance
May 22, 2007
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

First Performers
Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone
Juliana Hall, piano