Moon Songs
A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano
by Shulamit Ran
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice

SKU: PR.11140240S

A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2011. 54 pages. Duration 26 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40240S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140240S).

UPC: 680160671489. 9 x 13.5 inches. Text: Haim Gouri; Shlomo Ibn Gvirol; Almog Behar; Albert Giroux; Samuel Menashe; Yehuda Halevi; 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.