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From Earth to Sky - 7 Vocal Duets for Medium High Voice and Piano, 52 pgs
Martha Hill Duncan
Categories: Vocal Collections, Vocal Duets
Levels: Intermediate - Levels 5, 6, Junior - Levels 3, 4
- TO HOME for soprano, alto & piano, poetry by Janet Windeler Ryan
- UNDER THE PAINTED SKY for soprano, alto & piano, poetry by Janet Winder Ryan
- FOR MY MOTHER for soprano, alto & piano, poetry by Janet Windeler Ryan
- SUNSET SONG for two sopranos & piano, poetry by Janet Windeler Ryan
- QUEEN OF THE NORTH for soprano, alto & piano, poetry by Linda Jacques
- GRATEFUL for soprano, alto & piano, poetry by Martha Hill Duncan
- MAPLE DUST for soprano, alto, flute and piano, poetry by Airlie Clarke
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Life Songs for Voice and Piano
Teresa Richert
Categories: Vocal Collections, Vocal Solos
Levels: Beginner - Introductory, Level 1, Level 2, Junior - Levels 3, 4
Three vocal solos for medium high voice with piano accompaniment. Featuring The Maple Tree, winner of the 2010 Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations Call for Scores. Performance of The Maple Tree by Arriana Ervin, former student of the Judith Bergthorson Academy of Musical Arts, Maple Ridge. Recording by Autumn Music, Maple Ridge, Fall 2010.
This E-Book allows one copy for each performer (i.e., the vocalist and pianist) one piece at a time. See Hardcopy vs. E-Book vs. Studio License at the end of Sound Samples & Scores below.
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My Bird Is Singing
Colleen Athparia
Categories: Vocal Collections, Vocal Solos
Levels: Advanced - Levels 9, 10, Diploma, Beginner - Introductory, Level 1, Level 2, Intermediate - Levels 5, 6, Junior - Levels 3, 4, Late Intermediate - Levels 7, 8
Description for “My Bird is Singing”
Pug- Wuddy- Wuddle (For Thimble)
Range C to E
This fun song is about a little dog who loves to splash and to sing when he finds a laughing flea! It features clapping, snapping, or tapping by the singer and pianist as well as spoken syllables with the fun words “wuddy-wuddle”! Level 2
Sometimes in the Dark
Range C to F (soprano)
A very lyrical song set to the ambiguous words “Sometimes you can hear more clearly in the dark.” Level 3
I love the Wind’s Song (available in 3 keys)
A major Range D to G (soprano)
G major Range C to F (mezzo-soprano)
F major Range Bb to Eb (contralto)
This beautifully lyrical song features many rising and falling intervals of 4ths. Level 4
Lost and Found
A beautiful poem of Love that lies “balanced between hope and loneliness” portrayed by a major/minor/major melody that expresses the surprises that Love may bring to all of us.
How the Leaves Play
Primarily based on a pentatonic scale with fluttering grace notes in the piano accompaniment, this poem portrays Leaves Playing, “seemingly happy, unknowing their freedom will make them die.”
Raindrops – Teardrops
Raindrops and Teardrops are represented by many falling 3rds and aspirated “p’s” as in drop-p-p-p, accompanied by a beautiful shimmering textured piano accompaniment.
Let us Leave behind this Day
This song was written Jan.6, 2024, after hearing of the unexpected demise of the poet, Robert Greenwood, who wrote this mature poem: “Let us snore our way toward death… and leave no sound, no footprint…” It ends with a beautiful melisma that weaves melodically with the piano.
There was a Time
This uplifting and nostalgic song is the longest (8 pages) in the collection. “There was a time when people loved, people were missed. There was a place of earth where people hugged, were full of mirth. There was the earth, it had a face, a place of grace for every race.” This folk-like waltz Refrain is contrasted with “But now the times have changed, and people seek and try to blame.” The Refrain returns with words of hope “to feel the spirits heal the earth…”
Mister Tree
This song portrays and ancient tree who “stood looking at the anguished angles of his people’s minds. He stood here, gnarled but not broken.” It uses onomatopoeic consonants in words like “cracking cracking crevices” and “the licking licking liquored glames.”
My Bird is Singing
The title song for this book is based on a lovely poem about the joys of singing. “Forget your wounds, open your ears, hear your eyes see, open your mouths and sing and sing!” This song develops flexibility in the voice with many 16th note melismas imitating the song of birds.
Ghosts fog the Mountains
This is the most challenging and contemporary piece in the collection, featuring many upward vocal glissandi spanning intervals of 7ths accompanied by piano tremolos and strumming the strings inside the piano. This creates a mystical aura of “snow sugared evergreens weaving faded tapestries among the pinecones.”
Summer - Imaginative Art Songs for Med. High Voice, 40 pgs
Martha Hill Duncan
Categories: NFMC (US), Vocal Collections
Levels: Intermediate - Levels 5, 6, Junior - Levels 3, 4
Thanks to my good friend Linda Jacques for inspiring me with her memories of summers on Georgian Bay. These songs can be sung and enjoyed by all ages and singers should feel free to alter the suggested tempo marking to accomodate individual vocal needs. They are intended to evoke images and to entertain, so I encourage you to find subtle ways to use voice and gestues to further the poetry. I imagine them performed singly, in groupings or as a complete set (in any order).M.H. Duncan
Level 3 CSS: SAND FLEAS
Level 3, RCM, CSS MY CEDAR CANOE
Level 4, RCM: THE SWIMMER
Level 4, RCM, CSS: CLOUD DREAMS
Level 5, RCM, CSS: NIGHT LIGHTS
Level 6: QUEEN OF THE NORTH
RCM: The Royal Conservatory of Music
CSS: Contemporary Showcase Syllabus
Individual E-Pieces available at http://marthahillduncan.com
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Vocal Selections from Searching the Painted Sky, The Opera, 64 pgs
Martha Hill Duncan
Categories: Opera, Vocal Collections
Levels: Intermediate - Levels 5, 6, Junior - Levels 3, 4, Late Intermediate - Levels 7, 8
Vocal selections from The Youth Opera, Searching the Painted Sky, (64 pages), story and libretto by Janet Winder Ryan, music by M.H. Duncan). Inspired by the art song collection Searching the Painted Sky, this is the story of two sisters who have lost their mother and live with their father. After a run-in with an exotic fortune teller, their lives take a turn into fantasy, complete with strange, funny and fantastical characters. Premiered by The Youth Opera of El Paso at the 2014 National Opera Association Convention in New York City. Please contact M.H. Duncan directly regarding any interest in staging the opera.
AS MORNING OPENS, HOLIDAY (CSS),BEANS AND MUSTARD, (CSS), TO HOME(CSS), UNDER THE PAINTED SKY, WORKING HARD, FOR MY MOTHER (CSS), CRAB TANGO, ELLEGEÉ, SUNSET SONG, LULLABY
CSS: Contemporary Showcase Syllabus
Individual E-Pieces available at http://marthahillduncan.com
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