Three Shakespeare Songs

Three Shakespeare Songs. For high voice or upper voices and piano. Settings of Shakespeare sonnets 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day), 29 (When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) and 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds).

Gabriel Jackson's Three Shakespeare Songs for SATB with divisions unaccompanied. This setting of texts from Cymbeline and The Merchant of Venice and Sonnet 98 is characterised by inventive textures and vibrant word-setting. The harmonic language is for the most part diatonic but never plain and there are some pungent dissonances as the contrasts between and within the texts are laid bare in music of evocative power.

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melody tonality and texture. Hiscollection of Shakespeare Songs feature settings of verse from across the full range of the Bard's plays and have proved to be great critical successes still widely performed today. Suitable to be adapted by most voices.the songs are interwoven with complex and thrilling Piano accompaniments that bring colour and energy to the often liberally edited texts.Book five contains three songs adapted from Othello A Winter's Tale andThe Merry Wives Of Windsor.

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melody tonality and texture. Hiscollection of Shakespeare Songs feature settings of verse from across the full range of the Bard's plays and have proved to be great critical successes still widely performed today. Suitable to be adapted by most voices.the songs are interwoven with complex and thrilling Piano accompaniments that bring colour and energy to the often liberally edited texts.Book nine contains three songs adapted from As You Like It A Winter's Taleand Much Ado About Nothing

Like many composers who found themselves in exile during the war years Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed in a very neoclassical and neoromantic style reviving more traditional or antiquated ideas of melody tonality and texture. Hiscollection of Shakespeare Songs feature settings of verse from across the full range of the Bard's plays and have proved to be great critical successes still widely performed today. Suitable to be adapted by most voices.the songs are interwoven with complex and thrilling Piano accompaniments that bring colour and energy to the often liberally edited texts.Book eight contains three songs adapted from A Winter's Tale and Cymberline

Two Shakespeare Songs were written in 1989-1990. Cry Cock-a-Doodle-Doo was written first and is scored for Soprano Voice and Piano. It takes its text from a song by Ariel in The Tempest. The Witches’ Song is for solo Soprano with the text coming from Macbeth. Both are dramatic works which allow the performer to showcase her virtuosity; either would be a perfect audition piece or both could be combined as complementary items on a recital programme. Alison Bauld (b. 1944) is an Australian-born composer and writer who lives and works in London. Her compositions are distinguished by their dramaticstructure partly inspired by musical theatre. She has also written a three-volume tutor for keyboard and composition.

Three Choral Songs from William Shakespeare's As You Like It in a setting for SATB choir by Joseph Horovitz.

A wonderful set of three tremendous songs by composers from the Renaissance era. All in delightful settings for SSA Upper Voice choir edited by Jerry Weseley Harris. Two cheerful and energetic pieces by Thomas Morley and one affected yet glorious piece by Thomas Weelkes. Besides their obvious musical talents these two contemporaries shared not only a Christian name and occupation but also an acquaintance with William Shakespeare and the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I. It is unsurprising that the music of these two contemporaries of the Renaissance period have survived and it is only fitting that works by these two friends should appear in this one edition.