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Blackbird Etude

Opus 22 No. 2

for mezzo-soprano and piano

Music Publishers, New York

Commissioned by and dedicated to Anna Tonna

Blackbird Etude was premiered by the dedicatee on July 5, 2013 as part of the Hear & Now series at Bargemusic in Brooklyn, NY.

Performance duration: 2’30”

All rights of performance, reproduction, recording, transmission and distribution exclusively reserved by the composer.

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A.E. Stallings

         Voice Piano           Very lively                                                                                                3                                                                  più                    5                                         Theblackbirdsings                                   EMW212131-1 Blackbird Etude Opus 22, No. 2 Written for and dedicated to Anna

Ed Windels 2013 "Blackbird Etude" from Olives: Poems by A.E. Stallings, published by Evanston: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2012. Used by permission of the author.

Tonna

   7        atthefrontier                                              ofhismusic.                                                          -   10         Thebranchwherehe                                          satmarksthe                                            brinkofdoubt,                      cresc.                13                                     istheoutpost                ofhisrealm,                             16           edgefromwhich                          toroutencroach                   erswith                   EMW212131-1

   19        trills                                     and                                             melismaticruns                                                  22                                                    surpassing                                        earthboundskills.                                      cresc.                                                     26                                                         Itsoundslike                                 subito  cresc.    ar                                           29      dor,it                                   soundslike                                            EMW212131-1

   31  joy,                                                                                          7                        34     itsoundslike         Suddenly slow  joy.                                   In tempo very lightly                                            Weareglad                                     38       hereatthe                                         border                                         wherehesigns                                        41     theair                                    withhisin                                         visiblestaves,                                EMW212131-1

   44                                                   "Trespassersbeware!"                            46                                          Songassur             Suddenly slow      vival         akindofpure          Broadly          50     music              whichwecannot         dim.     rival.       Tempo 1                                                              EMW212131-1 ca. 2'15" June 6, 2013 New York City