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Three Settings of Ogden Nash

Conte, David

$13.00
Product Number
8535
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
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Product Number8535
Composer/ArrangerConte, David
Text AuthorNash, Ogden
Voicing & InstrumentsHigh Voice and Piano
DifficultyModerately Difficult
Text LanguageEnglish
Popular Vocal SearchesAnthology/Collections, Art Songs, Favorites, Vocal Solos
PublisherE. C. Schirmer Music Company
Ogden Nash is often cited as our country’s best-known author of humorous poetry. His style emphasizes unconventional rhyming schemes and invented words, both features of the three poems included in my set “Three Settings of Ogden Nash.” These three poems express a loose narrative of experiences and images from civilized urban and suburban life in mid-century America. “Tin Wedding Whistle,” is a marriage proposal. “Pretty Halcyon Days” is a humorous sketch of a day at the beach. “A Lady Who Thinks She is Thirty” explores the fears of growing old.; the narrator wisely reassures the lady that “beauty is timelessness for you.” To capture this tone musically, I strove to find a style that incorporated aspects of popular music, including gentle syncopations and jazz-influenced harmonies, integrated with the conventions of American classical Art Song. -David Conte
 
Duration: 13:30
 
Contents:
I. Tin Wedding Whistle
II. Pretty Halcyon Days
III. A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty