MUSIC/SCORES
Some Musical Examples from the Compositions of FRANK RETZEL
Duets for soprano and piano (2002) --
The Swing
(audio sample)
Duets -- Two songs make up this cycle to poems of Seamus Heaney. The Swing is the first of them.
The poems are from Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux; 1996
Used with permission.
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Copyright 2003 Frank Retzel (APNM-BMI)
Summer Songs for soprano and piano (1996) -- The Poplar
The Poplar (audio link) is the third of six songs in
Summer Songs. The complete cycle uses
texts of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Robert Frost and, for The Poplar, a poem of Seamus Heaney, from The Spirit
Level, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux: 1996.
Used with permission.
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Copyright 1996 Frank Retzel (APNM-BMI)
Blue-Line Strophes for ensemble (1996)
Blue-Line Strophes -- scored for an ensemble of seven instrumentalists (2
flutes, Bb/bass clarinets, 2 percussionists,
keyboard and bass), the work springs from this concept and belief of the
composer:
At first, all communication was a line in the sand.
Five Strophes comprise the Blue-Line Strophes. Here are examples from
Strophe II --- A Blue Line in the Sand
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Strophe III -- Blue Touch
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Strophe V --
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Copyright 1996 Frank Retzel (APNM-BMI)