The Art Songs of Louise Talma: CMS Sourcebook in American Music

ISBN-13: 9781032242224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 302 str.

Kendra Preston Leonard

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The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talma’s finest compositions and those most frequently performed during her life. It includes pieces appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced singers and collaborative pianists. The songs include text settings of American, English, and French poets and writers, including Native

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CHAPTER 1: Reading Talma’s Songs

A Brief Overview of Talma’s Life

Talma’s Compositional Language

Appropriate Research Methodologies

Concerning This Volume

CHAPTER 2: Songs of Mourning and Love

"Invocation to the Rain" (1925)

"On the Surface of Things" (1926-1927)

"When the Storm Breaks" (1927-1928)

"Song in the Songless" (1928)

Five Sonnets from the Portuguese

"XXI. Say Over Again" (1934)

"VII. The Face of All the World Is Changed" (1934)

"XXII. When Our Two Souls Stand Up" (1934)

"I. I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung" (1934)

"XXXIII. Yes, Call Me by My Pet Name" (1934)

Vocal Ranges in the Early Songs

CHAPTER 3: Farewell to Youth

Terre de France (1945)

"Mère, voici vos fils" (1943)

"Sonnet" (1945)

"Ballade" (1945)

"Ode" (1945)

"Adieux à la Meuse" (1945)

"Letter to St. Peter" (1945)

Vocal Range

CHAPTER 4: A Haunted Psyche

Seven Songs

"One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted" (1941)

"Rain Song" (1973)

"Glory Be to God for Dappled Things" (1949)

"Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" (1946)

"Sonnet: Carrion Comfort" (1950)

"Sonnet: I Wake and Feel the Fell of the Dark" (1946)

"Leap before You Look" (1945)

CHAPTER 5: Metaphors of Music

Infanta Marina

"Infanta Marina" (1988)

"The Brave Man" (1988)

"Domination of Black" (1988)

"Ploughing on Sunday" (1988)

"Lunar Paraphrase" (1988)

"Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores" (1988)

"A Load of Sugar-cane" (1988)

"Re-statement of Romance" (1990)

"The Pleasures of Merely Circulating" (1990)

"Finis" (1993)

BIBLOGRAPHY: Cited Sources and Suggested Readings

APPENDIX 1: Sources on the Vocal Works of Louise Talma

APPENDIX 2: The Complete Works for Voice by Louise Talma

APPENDIX 3: Recordings of Talma’s Vocal Works

INDEX 1: Individuals, Places, and Ideas

INDEX 2: Titles of Musical Compositions

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Kendra Preston Leonard has her Ph.D. from the University of Sunderland and was an instructor of Musicology at Westminster Choir College, 2009-2011.