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Katerina Gimon
Katerina Gimon
Moonset (low voice)
A dreamy and mysterious art song exploring themes of memory, love, and longing.
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Moonset
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Moonset
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Songs of Trees
Low voice and piano
Moonset is the second in a set of three songs for voice and piano called Song of Trees on poems by renowned Canadian Indigenous poet E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913). The poetry explores themes of memory, love, and longing, and the accompanying music is built over a gentle, rocking piano motive that gives the piece a dreamy and mysterious quality.
This work was commissioned and premiered by baritone Jason Klippenstein on November 13, 2017, at Roy Barnett Recital Hall (University of British Columbia) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Vocal range:
High, E4 – Ab5
Medium, C4 – E5
Low, Bb3 – D5
Text
Idles the night wind through the dreaming firs,
That waking murmur low,
As some lost melody returning stirs
The love of long ago;
And through the far, cool distance, zephyr fanned.
The moon is sinking into shadow-land.
The troubled night-bird, calling plaintively,
Wanders on restless wing;
The cedars, chanting vespers to the sea,
Await its answering,
That comes in wash of waves along the strand,
The while the moon slips into shadow-land.
O! soft responsive voices of the night
I join your minstrelsy,
And call across the fading silver light
As something calls to me;
I may not all your meaning understand,
But I have touched your soul in shadow-land.
— E. Pauline Johnson
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