Sleep Song - Medium voice
by Elizabeth Alexander
Medium Voice - Sheet Music

Vocal Solo (Medium voice and piano) - Moderately Easy

SKU: SF.SEA-061-01

Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Art Song. Children. With Text language: English. Duration 4 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-061-01).

Text by Ann Silsbee.

While watching a beloved child slumber, a parent contemplates those things that sleep brings: a release from the drama of the day, deep cycles of breath, and complete authenticity.

Composer's Note: The small, disciplined form of "Sleep Song" - nine 9-syllable lines - is one which my friend and poet Ann Silsbee explored throughout her intimate book, "Naming the Disappeared." What captured my musical imagination was the rhythm of breathing reflected in this poem, a rhythm of which singers are viscerally aware. What captured my spirit was nearly the same thing: the beauty, power and vulnerability of breath itself, that most basic sign of life.
Range: c'-f".