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Ellen Gilson Voth

Active as a conductor and composer, Dr. Ellen Gilson Voth is proud to be aligned with Graphite Publishing. She credits her years of teaching experience and her performing experience as a keyboard artist as important influences on her composing career, and her passion for writing for the human voice. Praised for music that is “superbly...

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The things which I have seen… (art song)

Name: The things which I have seen... (art song)
SKU: GP-V005
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Ellen Gilson Voth

A subtle and poetic work for low voices and piano.

Difficulty: 2

Duration: less than 3 min.

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The things which I have seen…

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for tenor and piano

In “The Things Which I Have Seen” Ellen Gilson Voth allows the poem to lead the music to a natural conclusion. Concision, reflection, and thoughtfulness rule this piece, led by the poetry of Worsworth. A sparse piano accompaniment provides musical punctuations, but then “dreamily” leads with a solo passage to the conclusion.

Text

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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