{"product_id":"borroff-five-whitman-songs-aca","title":"Borroff: Five Whitman Songs","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/edith-borroff\"\u003eEdith Borroff (1925-2019)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003ePiano, Tenor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: 5 Whitman Songs (1990)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork Language\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-language\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISMN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9790307301313\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e8.9\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote from the composer:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1989 I was asked to compose a group of songs on poems by Walt Whitman. in 1990 the cycle was completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe challenge of composing a setting for texts written so long ago is a great one: violently modern settings seem completely at odds with the thought and the style, while going back to an earlier musical diction seems to leave the poems in the nineteenth century rather than bringing them forward into the twentieth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe answer for this set of songs was to turn to simple configurations and use them in a new way, having then a part of both worlds. I decided upon a classic declamation for the voice, operatic in \"Tears!\" and more straightforward in the other songs; the piano counter-part of each song would be based in its own trichord (or, in one case, tetrachord) relationship. in schematic form, the five songs are based on the five schemata: C-G-A [and a chordal C-G-D); D-Eb-A-Bb, C-F-Bb and C-E-F; Eb-G-A; and an alternation of C-E-F_ and C-E-B. The limitation proved as limitation always does, to be highly energizing, while giving the songs a variety of sound within the unity of aesthetic commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"American Composers Alliance (ACA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46023229898831,"sku":"ACA-BORR-034","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/33a69028dd0669d2f434bd4c5ad2c3ae.webp?v=1783450115","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/products\/borroff-five-whitman-songs-aca","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}