Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.927259
Composed by Clifton Davis. Children,Contemporary,Graduation,Holiday. Score. 5 pages. Clifton Allen Davis Music, ASCAP #5195067. Published by Clifton Allen Davis Music, ASCAP (A0.927259).
A contemporary art song, for low voice and piano. Consonant harmonies and lyrical vocal writing convey the poet's gestures. While traveling in Sligo, Ireland, to celebrate a wedding anniversary, the composer purchased a copy of William Butler Yeats’s collected poems. In between hikes and other adventures, he began a series of choral settings of five of Yeats’s poems. In A Cradle Song, the piano gently rocks back and forth as the singer ruminates the aging of the child who is going to sleep.