5 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian)

		Movements/Sections Five songs: 1. Aloof 2. Cadmus and Harmonia 3. Spring and Fall: to a young child 4. Invictus 5. Sonnet from the Portuguese Composition Year 1988 Genre Categories Songs; For voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the flute; Scores featuring the clarinet; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For voices with solo instruments; English language

Performances

• Recordings (5)

Recordings

 1. Aloof
*#191210 - 1.48MB - 3:14 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - - !N/!N/!N - 164x⇩

MP3 file (audio)
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

 2. Cadmus and Harmonia
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MP3 file (audio)
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

 3. Spring and Fall: to a young child
*#191212 - 2.23MB - 4:51 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - - !N/!N/!N - 72x⇩

MP3 file (audio)
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

 4. Invictus
*#191213 - 1.26MB - 2:45 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - - !N/!N/!N - 45x⇩

MP3 file (audio)
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

 5. Sonnet from the Portuguese
*#191214 - 1.57MB - 3:26 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - - !N/!N/!N - 42x⇩

MP3 file (audio)
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

Performers:

The Capitol Chamber Artists
Janet Stasio, soprano; Mary Lou Saetta, violin and viola;
Irvin Gilman, flute; Charles Stancampiano, clarinet; Ann Alton, cello

Publisher Info.:

Vivian Fine Estate

Copyright:

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Sheet Music

• Scores (1)

Scores

 Complete Score
*#191208 - 4.76MB, 33 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - !N/!N/!N - 109x⇩

PDF typeset by Paul Hawkins
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/20)

Publisher Info.:

Vivian Fine Estate

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Misc. Notes:

See also Four Victorian Songs, a scoring for piano and voice of four of the songs.

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General Information

Work Title	Five Victorian Songs
Alternative Title

Composer	Fine, Vivian
Movements/Sections	Five songs: 1. Aloof 2. Cadmus and Harmonia 3. Spring and Fall: to a young child 4. Invictus 5. Sonnet from the Portuguese
Year/Date of Composition	1988
First Performance	1988-03-04 at Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont. Janet Stasio, soprano, Mary Lou Saetta, violin and viola, Irvin Gilman, flute, Charles Stancampiano, clarinet, Ann Alton, cello
Librettist	see listing Christina Rossetti Matthew Arnold Gerald Manley Hopkins William Ernest Henley Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Language	English
Average Duration	17 minutes
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	Soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello

Misc. Comments

Commissioned by the Capitol Chamber Artists

Fifty-five years earlier Fine wrote Four Songs (1933) for soprano and string quartet, then The Great Wall of China (1947) for soprano, flute, violin, cello, and piano, followed by The Confession (1963), for soprano, flute, strings, and piano, the stunning Missa Brevis for Four Cellos and Taped Voice (1972), and the more recent Ode to Henry Purcell (1984) a song cycle for soprano and string quartet.

Five Victorian Songs is in the same tradition of her most challenging music….Fine was careful to observe rhythmic subtleties of the texts, generally writing syllabically and aiming for vocal clarity. Her recent contrapuntal emphasis is apparent…however, there is a greater unity between the singer and instruments than before.

Each song has a unifying feature. In 'Cadmus and Harmonia' by Matthew Arnold, the flute and clarinet have snakelike figures portraying Cadmus’s and Harmonia’s final state while the violin doubles the soprano….In the other songs Fine has a previous vocal melody be an instrumental counterpoint to a new vocal line. In 1991 she scored the collection as Four Victorian Songs for piano and voice, thinning the canonic textures and omitting one of the poems.

—Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999