Art Songs

Question 1

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Answer 1

Till Earth Outwears - Boosey and Hawkes: 1958 (14’)

Question 2

Ellen Mandel (b. 1957)

Answer 2

“To an Isle in the Water” - (2’) [W. B. Yeats]
“a wind has blown the rain away” - (3’) [ E. E. Cummings]

Question 3

Jonathan Dove (b. 1959)

Answer 3

Out of Winter - Edition Peters: 2003 (20”) [Robert Tear] {Written in response to poems by Thomas Hardy}
1: Slow and boring
3: Comical, interesting piano part
6: Interesting piano part: rolling like a harp

Question 4

Stacy Garrop (b. 1969)

Answer 4

“Dawn” - Self Published: 2009 (2”) [Paul Lauren’s Dunbar] {Open, sparse}

Question 5

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Answer 5

“The Call” from Five Mystical Songs - 1911 (2”) [George Herbert] {Open, like a hymn}

Question 6

Lori Laitman (b. 1955)

Answer 6

“A Wild Sostenuto” - Classical Vocals Reprints: 2008 (5”) [Richard Wilbur]{Melodramatic, rolled chord textures}
“An Amethyst Remembrance” from The Perfected Life - Self-published under Enchanted Knickers Music (1”)[Emily Dickinson]

Question 7

Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)

Answer 7

Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro (1980) - 15’, published by Helicon
Sparrows (1979) - 18’, published by Helicon

Question 8

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Answer 8

Lilacs 7’
In our quiet… 4’ - Text by Higdon