SKU: A0.780675

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Early Intermediate Piano Solo).  The last stanza of the famous Robert Frost poem is set to music in this Early Intermediate Piano Solo.   But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, etc.  Practice Suggestions and Composer’s Reflection on the Robert Frost Farm included.  Also available - The entire poem is set to music in Vocal Solos for High or Low Voice.

SKU: A0.1104723

A musical setting of Robert Frost's winter poem: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Perfect for piano or folk settings (chords provided).

SKU: A0.942097

This guitar and vocal work were originally set on the Robert Frost poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, and was written for a lecture series at Boston University given by Lukas Foss entitled ‘Words on Music. Some years later I set out to publish the work and found that the estate of the late R. Frost frowned upon this particular practice and after a second failed attempt to get permission to publish the work, I decided to write my own verse for this composition (my first actually) and use a subject familiar to me, the story of Daedalus and Icarus Journey to freedom.

After his arrival in Crete, Daedalus found that Minos would not let him leave. He subsequently obtained wax and feathers and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus. With these they succeeded in flying away, but Icarus, flying too near to the sun, melted his wings, fell into the sea near Crete, and drowned; Daedalus escaped to Italy only to fall into the hands of the local King Kokalos who drowned him in hot water.

 The Daedalus and Icarus Journey

Escape from here is what I’ll do

I have a plan I thought it through

The waves beneath us deadly wild

I’ll fly up high, it’s just the sky

That was a dreadful thing to say

To fly so high, you can’t survive.

Your wings, your soul and frozen smile,

The sun will burn and you will die.

The Death you seek I am sure you’ll get,

He’s there for you he won’t forget.

He will be fast and kind with you,

If He survived why not you too?

It’s time to go the sky gets blue

My mind will be so close to you

You cannot scare me I have to try,

The time is right, let’s say goodbye.

Text by Apostolos Paraskevas

SKU: A0.1303857

Robert Frost wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening� in 1922. Frost referred to the poem as his “best bid for remembrance.� It was published, along with other celebrated poems, including “Fire and Ice� and “Nothing Gold Can Stay,� in his collection “New Hampshire� in 1923. 

I intended the slow repeating tone cluster chords in the last section as a solemn meditation on death. I wanted to be as deliberate as possible with the poem’s two concluding quintessential lines “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.� 

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

SKU: LV.7555

At the Funny Page Ball. Lyric by Jack Frost. Music by Robert Speroy. Published 1918 by Frank K. Root & Co. in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Cartoons, Fictitious characters, Ballroom dancing. First line reads The funny papers gave a ball last night..

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