The Cage Without Birds (Vocal Score) [HL:1187374]

The Cage Without Birds (Vocal Score) [HL:1187374]

Chester Music

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UPC:
196288129325
EAN:
9781705191941
ISBN:
1705191940
Instrumentation:
Children's Choir
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
16
UPC:
196288129325
Format:
Octavo
Subtitle:
for Soprano Saxophone, Children's Choir, and Organ. Choral
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
Vocal Score. The Cage without Birds, for mixed children's choir, saxophone and organ, written for Sam Corkin's Palimpsest project, takes Schumann's “Wehmut” as its starting point. Schumann's song, from the Eichendorff Liederkreis Op. 39 describes 'Nightingales,sing[ing]/Their song of longing/From their dungeon cell'. In my little piece, motives from Schumann's melody are given to the saxophone, who represents a free, cageless bird. The text set is Richard Stokes' translation of a Jules Renard's prose poem of the same name, part of his Histoires Naturelles.