Work
Nocturnes
for soprano and horn
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Difficulty note
Songs 3, 5 and 7 can be sung as a sequence for unaccompanied voice – detached from the cycle. They are in the same mode on the same tonal centre.
Contents note
Setting of eight poems from sunset to sunrise:
- Nocturne
- High Tide
- To the Moon
- Nightingales
- Tears
- Mad Song
- The Mystic's Prayer
- Daybreak
Text note
Texts by Tennyson; Untermeyer; Shelley; R. Bridges; Wang Seng-ju; Blake; William Sharp; Longfellow
Performance history
04 Jan 2008: Performed by Grevillea Ensemble: Wendy Dixon (soprano) and Michael Dixon (horn) at Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland
04 Jan 2008: Performed by Grevillea Ensemble: Wendy Dixon (soprano) and Michael Dixon (horn)
Performed by Grevillea Ensemble: Wendy Dixon (soprano) and Michael Dixon (horn)