Moon Songs
A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano
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A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed December 11 2011. 54+54+16+16 pages. Duration 26 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40240. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111402400).ISBN 9781598064865. UPC: 680160613137. 9 x 13.5 / 9 x 12 inches. Text: Almog Behar; Yehuda Halevi; Shlomo Ibn Gvirol; Haim Gouri; Samuel Menashe; Albert Giroux; Shmu'el Hanagid. Various.
Ran was asked for a new work for Mimi Stillman's Dolce Suono Ensemble and their Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series. Creating a piece that would be at once an homage and a companion piece to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire was an intriguing challenge. Ran ultimately chose poems and excerpts that reference the moon in a riveting performance setting for flute (doubling piccolo), piano, cello, and soprano/narrator/actress. With English and Hebrew texts, Moon Songs consists of four acts with two entr-actes. Extensive program notes and performance notes are included. Ran advises, Demanding as her sung part is, the singer...needs to be as much an actress as a singer.