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Scored for mezzo-soprano or baritone, flute, cello and piano, and dedicated to the American musician and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, [2] the set is usually performed complete as a true song cycle although this was not the composer's designation. The songs are: "Nahandove" (incipit: "Nahandove, ô belle Nahandove") "Aoua!"
A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41 is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten.It consists of five songs composed on poems by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, Thomas Randolph and John Phillip.
These basic types are soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto for women, and tenor, baritone, and bass for men. [6] Within choral music the system is collapsed into only four categories for adult singers: soprano and alto for women, and tenor and bass for men. [7]
The mezzo-soprano voice (unlike the soprano voice) is strong in the middle register and weaker in the head register, resulting in a deeper tone than the soprano voice. [2] The term mezzo-soprano was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the ...
All of the songs were composed between 1954 and 1958. [1] The cycle is best suited for mezzo-soprano, although, the original program note from the cycle's 1959 premiere acknowledges that all of the songs may be sung by a baritone, except for "Hands, Eyes, and Heart", "which is a woman's song."
Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah was composed in 1942.Jeremiah is a programmatic work, following the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah.The third movement uses texts from the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible, sung by a mezzo-soprano.
The cycle consists of three songs set to whimsical verses by three contemporary French authors. Apart from a general light-hearted tone, there are no unifying elements in the music or texts. Satie conceived it for mezzo-soprano voice but it has been successfully performed by soprano and baritone vocalists. Léon-Paul Fargue
Song of Songs, cantata for soprano or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1946); Biblical text For Cornelia , song for voice and piano (1955); text by William Butler Yeats Time Cycle , 4 songs for soprano and orchestra (1959–1960); version for soprano, clarinet, cello, celesta, percussion (1960); texts by W. H. Auden , A. E. Housman , Franz Kafka ...