5 SONGS FOR BARITONE AND PIANO
on poems by Thomas Hardy
PUBLISHER
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
CATALOG NUMBER
8580
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SUBSCRIPTION
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DESCRIPTION
An assortment of English country personalities inhabit this song cycle, which deals with the ideas of lost love and betrayal in love. The cycle begins with a ballad singer whom the speaker implores to song as a way of making him forget the pain of losing one whom 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.
TEXTS
1 – The Ballad Singer
2 – Julie-Jane
3 – The Fiddler
4 – To Carrey Clavel
5 – Rose Ann
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2007
DURATION
24 minutes
DEDICATION
Christopher Dylan Herbert
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Mary 22, 2007
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone
Juliana Hall, piano
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Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone
Juliana Hall, piano
The Ballad Singer
Julie-Jane
The Fiddler
To Carrey Clavel
Rose Ann