Windels BLACKBIRD ETUDE

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” "Blackbird Etude" from Olives: Poems by A.E. Stallings, published by Evanston: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Used by permission of the author.

All rights reserved. ©2103 by Ed Windels. ASCAP 510395481 All rights of performance, reproduction, recording, transmission and distribution exclusively reserved by the composer.

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Blackbird Etude Opus 22, No. 2

Written for and dedicated to Anna Tonna

Ed Windels 2013

A.E. Stallings

Voice

Piano

 

Very lively 

   



 

    

  





           

 

      

   

 

  

    

   

  





  



 



 

più

5

  

 







                                                  

  



3

 





   

  

 

 



     



  







 

               

   



      

The black - bird

sings

                           

   

 

   









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

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   

7

at

   

  

 







of





his mu - sic.

where

he

    

 

   

  

sat

marks

the

 



  

      

brink



of

 

doubt,

                                                             cresc.







  









  

 

  

    

The branch

13

16



    

   

       



                                                         





 

the fron - tier

  10

       

 

 



         



           edge from which

               

 

      







 

rout



        

 

is

               

            to



 







en - croach

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of

   

his realm,

              

      -



         

the out - post





ers



   





    



      





with

    

19



       





                   22

and

lis

-

ma - tic

                                        

 

             





    

 









    



 

                



trills

sur - pas

-

sing



me



-







earth - bound

runs







skills.

                                                                                                   cresc.                  26





                                It sounds

          

  -

                   



29



 

    



 

 

 -



dor,

        

 

subito







 

it



like

   

 

  

ar

-

-

-

             

cresc.









sounds

 

       

  







  

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    





 







like

              

   







31

 

   



                                                   

joy,

      







Suddenly slow In tempo

   

34



   



it sounds like

joy.

   



    

here





    



  

 

 



  



We



are

glad

                                               

 very lightly                

38







        



7

 



at



the

bor

-

 

           





 

               

 

der

where

he

signs

                                                              41



       

       



  

the air

        

    

    







with

   

his

in

-

   

       

   



    

 

   

vi - si - ble

staves,

                                                           

 

 

   



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 

  

44

   



 

   

46



 

   

  





 

      



  







       which we can - not











                 



     dim.     

          

Suddenly slow

                         

mu - sic



   

Song

    

50

 



       

 

 

"Tres - pas - sers

                  



          

ri

-

val.

        

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

  

 











a kind of pure

 

Tempo 1

    

       

       

 

be - ware!"

Broadly 

as sur - vi - val



   

 

        







 

                            

 

 

ca. 2'15"

June 6, 2013 New York City