Vocal solos with harp<\/strong> Vocal Duets with harp<\/strong> It\u2019s rare and wonderful to encounter a poem or a song about being married for a long and happy time. This book is a collection of musical settings of some of those rare poems on happy marriages that I have encountered and treasured over the years. There are some works by earlier poets here, such as John Donne, whose own happy marriage has always been famous. I am deeply grateful to the living poets who have given me permission to use such tender, personal, and sometimes very private poems in this collection. The two fictional lovers in Dorothy Sayers\u2019 mystery Gaudy Night aren\u2019t yet married when they write the sonnet I\u2019ve included here, but, as readers of Dorothy Sayers know, they will share a long and happy marriage. Following what she tells us about the vocal ranges of her lovers, Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, I\u2019ve scored the duet for alto and tenor. And since Bach\u2019s Concerto for Two Violins plays a significant part in the final scenes of the novel (and in the courtship of the characters), my setting uses brief musical quotations from that work. My own definition of marriage is a very liberal and non-traditional one. I hope performers will feel free to alter pronouns and raise or lower octaves, a piacere. All of the accompaniments can be played on the keyboard or easily adapted for it, but the suggested fingerings will be of no help at all to any keyboard players. Harpists, please note that the system I follow here is that numbers beneath the notes indicate fingers of the left hand, and numbers above the notes are for the right hand.<\/p>\n \u2013 Carol Wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Songs for Married Lovers<\/em> is a collection of 14 songs for voice and harp: nine songs for solo voice and five songs for vocal duet. The songs are original settings by harpist\/composer Carol Wood of selected poems on the theme of love within marriage. They are suitable for either lever or pedal harp. See below for contents and notes from the arranger.<\/p>\n This collection is available as a PDF download for $20.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Length<\/em>: 78 pgs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[974],"product_tag":[481,485,354,940,599],"class_list":["post-23948","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-carol-wood","product_tag-harp-and-others","product_tag-harp-and-voice","product_tag-inspirational","product_tag-love","product_tag-wedding","pa_artist-wood-carol","pa_composer-wood-carol","pa_genre-contemporary","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-and-voice","pa_level-intermediate","pa_occasion-wedding","pa_publisher-afghan-press","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/23948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=23948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Anniversary (John Donne)
\nIn the End We Are All Light (Liz Rosenberg)
\nMy Muse, Now Happy (Lady Mary Wroth)
\nAll of Our Books (John Anderson)
\nA Marriage (R. S. Thomas)
\nFlute Score for \u201cA Marriage\u201d
\nThe Catch (Richard Wilbur)
\nAn Enzyme Poem for Suzanne (Paul Zimmer)
\nIn a Little Room (Michael Palma)
\nSelf\u2010Portrait after Stanley Spencer John Wood)<\/p>\n
\nSonnet from Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers)
\nBook Lice (Paul Fleischman)
\nThe Weathers of Love, 1 (Paul Zimmer)
\nThe Weathers of Love, 2 (Paul Zimmer)
\nBefore I Even Noticed (Michael Palma)<\/p>\nNotes from the Composer<\/h3>\n