NIGHT DANCES

6 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8593

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Description
“Night Dances” shines a light on what night brings, from the sounds of a cricket singing to the image of a spider sewing a web, exploring the sounds and sensations of nightmare and insomnia, luxuriating in a lullaby bringing peace to a baby amid a storm at sea, and a final plea for music, that magic melody that soothes the soul, bringing with it rest and the peace of dreams.

Texts
1 – The cricket sang  (Emily Dickinson)
2 – Some Things Are Dark  (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
3 – Song  (Emily Brontë)
4 – Sleep, mourner, sleep!  (Emily Brontë)
5 – A Spider sewed at Night  (Emily Dickinson)
6 – Sonnet  (Elizabeth Bishop)