Songs of Flight
Maggi Payne
About this work:
There are two songs: The Tern and the Robe. In keeping with the visual imagery of Gary Snyder's two poems, Straits of Malacca 24 Oct 1957 (The Tern) and The Feathered Robe (The Robe), these settings seek to complement the pure, rather stark narrative delivery of the text with a piano accompaniment which seems to shadow the voice at times, and to gently surround the voice at other times. It is an effort to extract the listener from her/his current surroundings and to move her/him into the timelessness that the poetry evokes. Each song is approximately 4:30.
Year composed: 1988
Duration: 00:08:53
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with Keyboard
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation notes: soprano and piano