Guitar, Instrumental Duet, Viola - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1563963
Composed by David Warin Solomons. This edition: pdf, streaming. Contemporary, Folk. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #1136035. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1563963).
This instrumental arrangement of my vocal setting of Paul Verlaine's poem "Nevermore" plays on an ambiguity of major and minor modes, swaying back and forth between the tonal centres.
The pdf contains score and parts The sound sample is an electronic preview.
The chord names are provided over the melody instrument in case the guitarist would like to follow the melody instrument and play in a different manner from the notated part (eg strumming).
The poem and my father's English version are as follows:
Nevermore
Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu? L'automne Faisait voler la grive à travers l'air atone, Et le soleil dardait un rayon monotone Sur le bois jaunissant où la bise détone.
Nous étions seul à seule et marchions en rêvant, Elle et moi, les cheveux et la pensée au vent. Soudain, tournant vers moi son regard émouvant : "Quel fut ton plus beau jour?" fit sa voix d'or vivant,
Sa voix douce et sonore, au frais timbre angélique. Un sourire discret lui donna la réplique, Et je baisai sa main blanche, dévotement.
-- Ah! les premières fleurs, qu'elles sont parfumées! Et qu'il bruit avec un murmure charmant Le premier oui qui sort de lèvres bien-aimées!
English translation by S N Solomons:
Memory, what would you have of me? Autumn Drove the thrush up through the atonic air And the pale sun pierced in monotone The chill and windy woods and the leaf flare.
Together but alone we went our ways, Hair blown awry and monad thoughts unfurled. Suddenly she turned to me her tender gaze: "What was your finest day?" - a voice of gold,
Dulcet and low, ineffable and fresh. And I said nothing, offered her a smile, Seized her pale hand and pressed a kiss.
Ah those first flowers of spring how sweet they were, And that first whispered "Yes", how it beguiled, Won from those lovely lips with gentle murmur. (c) S N Solomons.
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Guitar, Instrumental Duet, Viola - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1563963
Composed by David Warin Solomons. This edition: pdf, streaming. Contemporary, Folk. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #1136035. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1563963).
This instrumental arrangement of my vocal setting of Paul Verlaine's poem "Nevermore" plays on an ambiguity of major and minor modes, swaying back and forth between the tonal centres.
The pdf contains score and parts The sound sample is an electronic preview.
The chord names are provided over the melody instrument in case the guitarist would like to follow the melody instrument and play in a different manner from the notated part (eg strumming).
The poem and my father's English version are as follows:
Nevermore
Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu? L'automne Faisait voler la grive à travers l'air atone, Et le soleil dardait un rayon monotone Sur le bois jaunissant où la bise détone.
Nous étions seul à seule et marchions en rêvant, Elle et moi, les cheveux et la pensée au vent. Soudain, tournant vers moi son regard émouvant : "Quel fut ton plus beau jour?" fit sa voix d'or vivant,
Sa voix douce et sonore, au frais timbre angélique. Un sourire discret lui donna la réplique, Et je baisai sa main blanche, dévotement.
-- Ah! les premières fleurs, qu'elles sont parfumées! Et qu'il bruit avec un murmure charmant Le premier oui qui sort de lèvres bien-aimées!
English translation by S N Solomons:
Memory, what would you have of me? Autumn Drove the thrush up through the atonic air And the pale sun pierced in monotone The chill and windy woods and the leaf flare.
Together but alone we went our ways, Hair blown awry and monad thoughts unfurled. Suddenly she turned to me her tender gaze: "What was your finest day?" - a voice of gold,
Dulcet and low, ineffable and fresh. And I said nothing, offered her a smile, Seized her pale hand and pressed a kiss.
Ah those first flowers of spring how sweet they were, And that first whispered "Yes", how it beguiled, Won from those lovely lips with gentle murmur. (c) S N Solomons.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
Preview: "Nevermore" for viola and guitar (inspired by the poem by Paul Verlaine)
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