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Huit chansons de fleurs : eight songs for high voice and piano / Ricky Ian Gordon.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1621.4.G673 C4 2021
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Format:
Musical score
Author/Creator:
Gordon, Ricky Ian, composer, author.
Standardized Title:
Chansons de fleurs
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Song cycles--Scores.
Song cycles.
Songs (High voice) with piano--Scores.
Songs (High voice) with piano.
Flowers--Songs and music--Scores.
Flowers.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Musical settings--Scores.
Dickinson, Emily.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Musical settings--Scores.
Wordsworth, William.
Gordon, Ricky Ian--Musical settings--Scores.
Gordon, Ricky Ian.
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967--Musical settings--Scores.
Parker, Dorothy.
Kenyon, Jane--Musical settings--Scores.
Kenyon, Jane.
Hall, Donald, 1928-2018--Musical settings--Scores.
Hall, Donald.
Dos Santos, Telmo--Musical settings--Scores.
Dos Santos, Telmo.
Genre:
Song cycles.
Musical settings.
Chamber music.
Songs.
Scores.
Physical Description:
1 score (44 pages) : portrait ; 31 cm
Other Title:
8 chansons de fleurs
Chansons de fleurs
Place of Publication:
[Malvern, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2021]
Language Note:
Staff notation.
Summary:
"While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordon's music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself."--Back cover.
Contents:
We should not mind so small a flower / Emily Dickinson
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
The tulips / Ricky Ian Gordon
One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker
Peonies at dusk / Jane Kenyon
Her garden / Donald Hall
Afterlife with lilacs / Telmo Dos Santos
Play, Orpheus / Ricky Ian Gordon.
Notes:
Commissioned by So-Chung Shinn and Tony Lee.
Includes composer's note and program notes in English.
Duration: 20 min.
ISBN:
1491134674
9781491134672
OCLC:
1283775720
Publisher Number:
680160685264
111-40289 Theodore Presser Company

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