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- Per Nørgård
Syngende-Gyngende (2010)
(Singing-Swinging)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
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Programme Note
SINGING - SWINGING
Two Songs for Equal Voices (SSAA)
The Aarhus Girls Choir, commissioned me to write songs with texts in English. Among the poetry that I perused, there was one poem in particular that immediately began “to sing” within me.
In the poem Singing Dunes Sonja Dunn let the wave- and curvelike repetitions of the words recreate for our (inner) ear a vast desert landscape of dunes and sands. When poems are given a sounding “gestalt” in music, the composer may hope to embellish the words, by his use of vocal and musical accentuations, repetitions, whistling, hissing, etc. Perhaps the composer has succeeded in conveying to the listerner a feel for the melodic curves and their mirroring of undulating dunes and desert landscapes.
To supplement the singing dunes of the Dunn poem, I chose a poem by Erik Knudsen,
Green Song, The Knudsen text gives us the human perspective, showing us a simple picture of a singing, swinging child in the summer rain.
Per Nørgård - February 2010
Two Songs for Equal Voices (SSAA)
The Aarhus Girls Choir, commissioned me to write songs with texts in English. Among the poetry that I perused, there was one poem in particular that immediately began “to sing” within me.
In the poem Singing Dunes Sonja Dunn let the wave- and curvelike repetitions of the words recreate for our (inner) ear a vast desert landscape of dunes and sands. When poems are given a sounding “gestalt” in music, the composer may hope to embellish the words, by his use of vocal and musical accentuations, repetitions, whistling, hissing, etc. Perhaps the composer has succeeded in conveying to the listerner a feel for the melodic curves and their mirroring of undulating dunes and desert landscapes.
To supplement the singing dunes of the Dunn poem, I chose a poem by Erik Knudsen,
Green Song, The Knudsen text gives us the human perspective, showing us a simple picture of a singing, swinging child in the summer rain.
Per Nørgård - February 2010