Five Yeats Songs, Op. 14 (voice & piano)
Derek B. Scott

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Instrumentation

Piano
1
VV
1

Additional Information

Text: W.B.Yeats. 1. The Lake Isle of Innisfree; 2.The Sorrow of Love (original version); 3. Who goes with Fergus? 4. A Cradle Song; 5. The Ballad of Father Gilligan.

These Yeats poems, all taken from The Rose, were set for the composer to sing himself, and they exist in another version for low voice and string quartet (Op.14a). They formed part of a search for an accessible, lyrical style, something with which the composer was much preoccupied at this time. The result, here, is a style in which triadic harmonies, sometimes unusually juxtaposed, are often placed against unexpected melodic configurations. The fifth song, incidentally, should be performed without parody, but with a gentle, self-conscious awareness of its sentimentality.

Details

Year
Publisher
Da Capo Music Ltd
Minutes
14