Details

Subject(s)

• Songs (High voice) with piano [Browse]
• Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble—Vocal scores with piano [Browse]
• Song cycles—Excerpts [Browse]
• Operas—Excerpts—Vocal scores with piano [Browse]
• Motion picture music—Excerpts—Vocal scores with piano [Browse]

Notes

• Contains 16 songs and 7 arias.
• Includes excerpts from song cycles, arias from operas and songs used in films.
• "A few songs existed originally in voice and piano versions but mostly the piano accompaniments in this volume are specially-made reductions of scores generally written for the Michael Nyman Band" --Pref. by the composer.
• Those songs originally written for alto or tenor have been adapted to suit soprano.

Bibliographic references

Includes discography.

Language note

Words in English, French or German.

Contents

Miserere : from The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover -- Allez! On préviendra les reflux d'incendie ; Quand tes pieds ont dansé : from L'orgie Parisienne -- Es war erde in ihnen ; Nächtlich geschürzt : from Six Celan songs -- Ariel songs : from Prospero's books -- I am an unusual thing : from Letters, riddles and writs -- Mozart on mortality -- If ; Why : from The diary of Anne Frank -- Silence emerges ; I'm riding on a tram ; He sang in a gentle voice : from Cycle of disquietude -- Tortured prisoner ; As noses move ; You are my son : from Facing Goya -- This is what I found today ; Things the artist must not do today : from Man and boy : Dada -- Life's chaos : from Acts of beauty.

Other title(s)

Songs and arias

ISBN

• 9781847726902
• 1847726909

OCLC

233681276

RCP

C - S