Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.989229 Composed by Mary Ann Joyce. Celtic,Concert. 8 pages. Mary Ann Joyce-Walter #6207001. Published by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (A0.989229). A familiar 19th century Irish ballad by the Irish poet, Eugene Field.  The poem and the music are touching and sad:  there are toys in the attic covered with dust, and the little toy soldier is red with rust, and his musket molds in his hands.  There was a time when the toys were new and Little Boy Blue kissed them and put them there.  He told them not to leave until he came to get them, but - an angel song awakened Little Boy Blue, and the years past.  The faithful toys stayed in the place where he put them, but they wondered sorrowfully what happened to their Little Boy Blue.. 

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012954 Composed by Carmelo Mantione. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards,World. 16 pages. Carmelo Mantione #5899699. Published by Carmelo Mantione (A0.1012954). These two pieces are based on texts by the great twentieth century poet Eugenio Montale, from Le occasioni and  Ossi di seppia collections. The first Non recidere forbice tries to evoke the drama of the text through a melodic line with an articulate profile characterized by taglient intervallari jumps, and a harmony often scarce as thin and desolate is sometimes the poetic text.   Antico sono ubriacato della voce is the second text, more extensive, on which the other lyric develops, characterized by the presence of an almost continuous rhythmic movement in the piano part in order to make the one, incessant and deep, of the waters of the sea , protagonist of this poetic song. There are numerous madrigalisms and musical devices designed to underline the expressive climate of each single text expression while trying to maintain a basic unity for the whole composition.