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Amy Beach
The Sea-Fairies, opus 59
Edited by Andrew Kuster
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ISBN 0-89579-435-7 |
(1999) xiii+73 pp. |
$43.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-435-2
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Over a third of the output of Amy Beach (1867–1944) is
music for chorus. She also wrote much of this music for choral societies
and clubs. Along with two other works for chorus and orchestra commissioned
by choral societies (The Rose of Avon-Town [1896] and The Chambered
Nautilus [1907]), The Sea Fairies composed and orchestrated
in 1904, exhibits Beach's great craftsmanship in scoring for women’s voices
and in setting poetry. This single-movement cantata for four-part women’s
chorus, three soloists, orchestra, and harp is an elegant setting of The
Sea Fairies by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Beach’s colorful orchestration
and melodious vocal writing portrays the lure of the sirens from Homer’s
Odyssey.
The Sea Fairies has been available until now only in piano-vocal
score. This edition makes the full score available for the first time.
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