Soprano voice, tenor
voice and piano or piano
alone (SGST/KL)
SKU:
HL.49030396
Version for two voices
and piano or piano
alone. Composed by
Percy Aldridge Grainger.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score.
Composed 1905/1911. 12
pages. Duration 6'.
Schott Music #ED 12525.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49030396).
ISBN
9790220122743.
9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.
Vocalise.
No
traditional tunes of any
kind are made use of in
this piece, in which I
have wished to express my
personal feelings about
my own country
(Australia) and people,
and also to voice a
certain kind of emotion
that seems to me not
untypical of native-born
Colonials in
general.Perhaps it is not
unnatural that people
living more or less
lonelily in vast virgin
countries and struggling
against natural and
climatic hardships
(rather than against the
more actively and
dramaticly exciting
counter wills of their
fellow men, as in more
thickly populated lands)
should run largely to
that patiently yearning,
inactive sentimental
wistfulness that we find
so touchingly expressed
in much American art; for
instance in Mark Twains
Huckleberry Finn, and
Stephen C. Foster's
adorable songs, My Old
Kentucky Home, Old Folks
at Home, etc. I have also
noticed curious, almost
Italian-like, musical
tendencies in brass band
performances and ways of
singing in Australia
(such as a preference for
richness and intensity of
tone and soulful breadth
of phrasing over more
subtly and sensitively
varied delicacies of
expression) which are
also reflected here.Percy
Aldridge Grainger.
