While watching a beloved child slumber, a parent contemplates those things that sleep brings: a release from the drama of the day, deep cycles of breath, and complete authenticity.
Sleep Song is also available in the song collection A Love Like That: Songs of Unconditional Love.
Vocal Ranges: Low: b-e" / Medium: c'-f" / High: d'-g"
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Low voice, piano - Piano/Vocal Score | 4' | ME | SEA-061-00 | Sheet Music | $7.00 | ||
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Medium voice, piano - Piano/Vocal Score | 4' | ME | SEA-061-01 | Sheet Music | $7.00 | ||
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https://www.seafarerpress.com/sites/seafarerpress.advantagelabs.com/files/works_variant_audio_files/sleep_song_high_voice_1.mp3 | High voice, piano - Piano/Vocal Score | 4' | ME | SEA-061-02 | Sheet Music | $7.00 |
The small, disciplined form of "Sleep Song" - nine 9-syllable lines - is one which my friend and poet Ann Silsbee explored throughout her intimate book, "Naming the Disappeared."
What captured my musical imagination was the rhythm of breathing reflected in this poem, a rhythm of which singers are viscerally aware. What captured my spirit was nearly the same thing: the beauty, power and vulnerability of breath itself, that most basic sign of life.
Carol Harris and Elizabeth Alexander ~ Hamline University (Saint Paul, MN) * Premiere
Harriet McCleary and Pam Sohriakoff (Minneapolis, MN)
Kris Park and Bill Cowdery ~ Women's Works Concert (Ithaca, NY)
Penney Kimbell and Sarah Meneely‑Kyder ~
Ann Silsbee Memorial Concert by New York Women Composers (Ithaca and New York City, NY)
Carol Harris and Elizabeth Alexander ~ Hamline University (Saint Paul, MN) * Premiere Harriet McCleary and Pam Sohriakoff (Minneapolis, MN) Kris Park and Bill Cowdery ~ Women's Works Concert (Ithaca, NY) Penney Kimbell and Sarah Meneely‑Kyder ~ Memorial Concert for poet/composer Ann Silsbee, by New York Women Composers (Ithaca and New York City, NY) |
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