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American Poetry and Writings
The works in this collection are based on American poetry, literature, letters, speeches, and diary entries, and include an enormous range of authors - from popular writers like Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson to personal letters and poetry by complete unknowns. Many of these works are for vocalists, using the text directly as lyrics or libretto. Other works are instrumental, or without words, and use the texts as inspiration or for programmatic effect.
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Hart Crane - e.e. cummings - Emily Dickinson - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Langston Hughes - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Carl Sandburg - Walt Whitman - William Carlos Williams
Other authors and instruments can be specified using the filters below.
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Dorothy Rudd Moore
Weary Blues - for Baritone, Cello, and Piano
Baritone, Cello, and Piano
$13.50 - $17.50 -
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Weary Blues - for Baritone and Orchestra
Baritone and Orchestra 23(3=EH)3(3=bcl)2 - 2000 - timp, pno - baritone solo - strings
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Timothy Lee Miller
Variations on "Happy Birthday!"
Orchestra 3(3=picc)3(3=EH)3(3=bcl)3(3=cbsn) - 4331 - timp, 4 perc, hp, cel, pno - strings
$42.50 -
Scott L. Miller
Blue in the Distance
Soprano, Bass Clarinet (Doubling Clarinet in A), Percussion, Piano, and Fixed Media
$25.00 - $36.50 -
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Edward J. Miller
Mists And Waters
Sop, cham orch: 1-1-1-1, hn, hp, perc, str 4tet (or str orch)
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Sarah Meneely-Kyder
Narcissus Monologue
T, cham orch: 1/pic-rec-1-1-bcl-cbsn; 1-1-1-0; perc; hp, cel, vla, vc
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Sarah Meneely-Kyder
Letter From Italy, 1944: A Soldier's Story Told In Music - Chorus, Orchestra
1/pic-1/EH-1-1 2-0-0-0 hp pf/kb perc(2) strings, SATB choir chorus, soloists, chamber orchestsra
$205.00
