Sleep Song - High voice
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Vocal Solo (High voice and piano) - Moderately Easy
Range: d'-g".
SKU: SF.SEA-061-02
Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Art Song. Children. With Text language: English. Duration 4 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-061-02).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: d'-g".