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Jeremy Dale Roberts: Spoken To A Bronze Head: Chant et Piano

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COMPOSITEUR: Jeremy Dale Roberts
TYPE DE PRODUIT: Conducteur
ÉDITEUR: University Of York Music Press
Jeremy Dale Roberts ' Spoken To A Bronze Head (2009) for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. This is a setting for text by Ursula Vaughan Williams . ' In all the long years that I knew her andit was a matter of regret between us I never set a word of Ursula’s poetry. It was only after her death, when I
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Compositeur Jeremy Dale Roberts
Auteur Ursula Vaughan Williams
Description Instrument Group Chant
Instrumentation Chant et Piano
Voix Mezzo-Soprano Voice
Instrumentation Mezzo-soprano et piano
Type de produit Conducteur
Description Product Type Conducteur
Éditeur University Of York Music Press
Période Post 1901
Nombre de Pages 8
ISMN 9790570360703
Edition Number M570360703
MUSM570360703
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Jeremy Dale Roberts' Spoken To A Bronze Head (2009) for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. This is a setting for text by Ursula Vaughan Williams.

'In all the long years that I knew her andit was a matter of regret between us I never set a word of Ursula’s poetry. It was only after her death, when I was asked to contribute a setting of one of her poems to a celebratory concert held at the Royal College of Musicthat I ‘jumped’: I knew immediately which one I wanted to do lines ‘Spoken to a Bronze Head’. This was the portrait bust of RVW made by David McFall: not the Jacob Epstein which neither of them liked very much. It stood alwaysin her sitting room, a benign presence, a ‘virtual’ companion in her long widowhood.
My setting is in an ‘arioso’ style, quite simple and austere maybe to match the rather ‘Augustan’ style of the verse. It is of course amemorial, also a salute: and I wanted to enshrine in it the two of them, Ralph and Ursula. So at the heart of it is a clangourous, bronze-like chord, lifted from the last movement of VW’s 6th Symphony, from which I quote a passagejust before the conclusion
. - Jeremy Dale Roberts

Song List
  • 1. Spoken to a Bronze Head
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