Three American Poems About Love (2020)
Colin Eatock
Product ID SON00002300
Composer Colin Eatock
Duration 09:00 min
Genre Classical, Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
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Three American Poems About Love (2020)

Three American Poems About Love (2020)

SKU SON00002300
Composer Colin Eatock
Arranger
Genre Classical
Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
Free description For a-cappella SATB choir
Grade 6
Duration 09:00 min
Year 2020

Score

€ 5,00

Program Notes

For a-cappella SATB choir

I: Invitation to Love; II: Spring Night; III: Our Love

The composer writes: A few years before I composed these settings by three American poets, I composed my Four Elizabethan Songs About Love (2016-2018). The texts I’ve used in Three American Poems About Love (2020) bring us forward in time about three centuries from the Elizabethan poems, and transpose the location from England to the USA. However, like the poems in the Elizabethan set, the texts in my American set are not all conventional love songs. The first, “Invitation to Love” (by Paul Laurence Dunbar) is a glowing reflection on the nature of love itself, rather than an expression of love directed towards a specific other. The second, “Spring Night” (by Sara Teasdale) is a wistful reflection on lovelessness, despite the consolations of beauty. Only the third, “Our Love” (by James Russell Lowell) is a love song in the conventional sense: a profession of enduring love between two people.

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