Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 songs
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Composition Year | 1937-1940 |
Genre Categories | Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; |
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1. Daybreak
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2. Spring's Welcome
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4. The Bargain
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Complete Score
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Work Title | Four Elizabethan Songs |
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Alternative. Title | |
Composer | Fine, Vivian |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IVF 22 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 songs
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1937-1940 |
First Performance. | 1941-05-01 at the Composers Forum Laboratory, New York City. Hilda Bondi, soprano, and Erich Weil, piano |
Librettist | John Donne, John Lyly, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney |
Language | English |
Average DurationAvg. Duration | 5 1/2 minutes |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
Piece Style | Modern |
Instrumentation | soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano |
External Links | Vivian Fine website |
The songs have the same tonal approach as the Prelude for String Quartet….Keyboard gestures enhance the text….The writing is Rennaissance-like but in a contemporary setting. Fine never overwrites or uses cliches….frequently there is a surprising tonal subtlety….Humor is especially evident in ‘The Bargain.’ The vocal lines are well written and not complicated, and when necessary the piano provides pitch support.
–Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999
“Dirge (after Shakespeare)…a piece beautiful in its emotional depth and a calm, clear-eyed mastery mirroring an amazingly potent, fine intellect.”
–Lazare Saminsky, Musical Courier, February 1, 1943
“Four Elizabethan Songs…date from the end of the ‘30s, and as such are written in a more tonal style. Lois Stipp…communicated the alternately sombre and frolicking moods of these spare, economical art songs.”
–Richard Chon, The Buffalo News, April 27, 1987