Sleep Song by Elizabeth Alexander Alto Voice - Sheet Music
By Elizabeth Alexander
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Sleep Song
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Details
Vocal Solo, Medium voice, Alto Voice, Baritone Voice, Piano (Medium voice and piano) - Early Intermediate
Range: c'-f.
SKU: SF.SEA-061-01
Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Vocal. A parent contemplates the serenity of a sleeping child. Classical, 21st Century, Lullaby. Score. With Text language: English. Duration 4 minutes. Seafarer Press #SEA-061-01. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-061-01).8.5 x 11 inches. Text by Ann Silsbee.
While watching a beloved child slumber, a parent contemplates those things that sleep brings: a release from the drama of the day, deep cycles of breath, and complete authenticity.
Composer's Note: The small, disciplined form of Sleep Song - nine 9-syllable lines - is one which my friend and poet Ann Silsbee explored throughout her intimate book, Naming the Disappeared. What captured my musical imagination was the rhythm of breathing reflected in this poem, a rhythm of which singers are viscerally aware. What captured my spirit was nearly the same thing: the beauty, power and vulnerability of breath itself, that most basic sign of life.Range: c'-f.
