Well my next stylized song setting comes due tommorrow afternoon. The performance of my op. 1 no.2 (the first was "The Raven"), will be in just a few weeks. I have my pianist and singer from the last instalment committed to my next peice, even though I haven't let them look at it yet (bad composer! bad!).
Anyway this one is a free-tonality impressionistic peice, with alot of word painting and tonal planing. To give you an idea of what that means, I am basically giving a musica;/visual impression of the words I am setting as they are being sung, so a word like "happy" will sound very happy, and a word like "oblique," will, I suppose, sound oblique. Words like sunshine would be accompanied by some musical figure which depicts rays of sunlight through trees, and such like.
This song ended up being a number of literary references, paraphrased by me, and set to a very slow Nocturne form, with a free association between D major and D minor, as well as pentatonic figures on D.
The text is a combination of "Dreams" by Poe, Hamlet, and "1984" by George Orwell. The text is thus: ------------------------------------ In visions of the dark night, I have dreamed of joy, departed. But a waking dream of life, and light hath left me broken hearted.
Holy dream that holy dream, when all the world were chiding
We shall meet in the place, where there is no darkness.
To sleep, perchance to dream And in the sleep of death, what dreams may come ------------------------------
I have taken some liberty with phrasings of course
I am still looking for a suitable way to post this once I get an Mp3 recording.... any suggestions?
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