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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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Michael Udow
Twelve Years a Slave
2 Sopranos, 3 Tenors, 5 Baritones, 1 Bass, 1 Boy Singer, 2 Girl Singers, SATB Choir, and Piano
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Thomas Canning
Rogation Hymn
SATB chorus, trumpet in B flat (2), trombone, bass trombone, piano for rehearsal
$11.00 - $46.50 -
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Richard Thompson
SHADOW OF DAWN - FIVE POEMS OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
High Voice and Piano
$21.50 - $38.50 -
Richard Thompson
THE MASK IN THE MIRROR - Piano Vocal Score
solo voices, piano 3 Sop, 2 Msop, 3 Ten, Baritone
$116.50 - $155.00 -
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Timothy Lee Miller
The Bird Lady
Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, SAAB Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra 2(1+picc,2+afl)1(+EH)1(+bcl)1 - 2000 - 2 perc, pno(+cel) - sop, ten, bar - SAAB chorus - strings
$34.00 - $258.50 -
Miriam Gideon
SONNETS FROM FATAL INTERVIEW - voice + string trio version
mez sop,vln, vla,vcl
$15.75 - $41.00 -
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J. Willard Roosevelt
War Is Kind (Our Dead Brothers Bid us Think of Life)
Soprano, Speaker, Dancer, Oboe, String Quartet, and Piano
$48.00 - $59.00 -
Ruth Anderson
Impression IV for Soprano, Flute, and String Orchestra
Soprano, Flute, and String Orchestra
$15.00 - $45.00 -
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