Three American Songs

Giles, Nicholas

Duration

8m 00s

Instrumentation

Duo

Scoring

baritone, pf

Availability

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About the work

The piece is a setting of the following poems: My life closed twice, by Emily Dickinson; Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost ; The Last Invocation, by Walt Whitman

Technical notes

The first and third songs a relatively slow, and the second is faster and with more complex rhythms and time signature changes.