and flowers pick themselves
5 Songs for High Voice and Orchestra on poems by e.e. cummings
Texts by e.e. cummings
Published by Theodore Presser Company
Duration: 21 min.
Voices: High Voice
Instrumentation: Solo Piano OR Solo High Vx.; 3(Picc.) 3(E.H.) 3(B.Cl.) 2 – 4 3 3 1; Timp. 3Perc. Hp. Str.
Premiere: October 29, 2005. Melanie Helton, soprano, Michigan State University Orchestra, conducted by Raphael Jiminez; East Lansing, MI
Commission: A Michigan State University Sesquicentennial Commission Funded by the Office for Research and Graduate Affairs and the College of Arts and Letters for Melanie Helton
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Songs
1. i thank You God for most this amazing
2. why did you go
3. Thy fingers make early flowers of
4. anyone lived in a pretty how town
5. who knows if the moon’s a balloon
Notes
Errata
These are corrections to the edition published by Theodore Presser Co.
“i thank you god for most this amazing”
Bar 80-the 2nd note in the L.H. should be a C (M2nd up)
Bar 81-the 2nd note should be a D(M3rd up)
“thy fingers make early flowers of”
Bar 34, the C in the L.H. at the end of the Bar should be tied to the chord in 35
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
Page 21, Bar 97: There is an upper layer in the L.H which should be an eighth rest, an G, quarter note, first line, and then an A quarter note, first space, and then a G eighth note, first line, tied to the next bar…a G half note the lower voice should just be an eighth rest, and then a C eighth note tied to a C half note which ties to the next bar…as a half note… the top line should be slurred (PDF example)
“why did you go”
Page 9, Bar 21, the C octave in the L.H. on beat one should be 8vb
Bar 24, the 2nd beat in the L.H., the F should be up an octave so the interval is a 7th