THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano
Michael-Thomas Foumai
Michael-Thomas Foumai
THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano
Translated by Kenneth Rexroth 1. Roads of love (0:50) 2. A girl I saw only once (0:40) 3. The colored leaves (1:20) 4. A girl who is not here (3:30)
Program Note The Burning Heart song cycle was composed for the 2012 Staunton Music Festival. The work consists of settings of Japanese love poems (Haiku) translated by Kenneth Rexroth and are in four large volumes, each volume composed for a different voice type and piano. The poems express in very little words, young and mature love, conveying intimacy, sensuality and angst.
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1.
May those who are born after me Never travel such roads of love. - Hitomaro
2.
When I see the first New moon, faint in the twilight, I think of the moth eyebrows Of a girl I saw only once. - Yakamochi
3. In the Autumn Mountains The colored leaves are falling. If I could hold them back, I could still see her. - Hitomaro
4. In the empty mountains The leaves of the bamboo grass Rustle in the wind. I think of a girl Who is not here. - Hitomaro
for the Staunton Music Festival
THE BURNING HEART III Songs for Baritone and Piano
Text Translations KENNETH REXROTH
1. Roads of love Baritone
Piano
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!
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2. A girl I saw only once 11 Bar.
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Murmuring, q=72
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24 Bar.
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7
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Maestoso, q=60
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32 Bar.
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q.=60
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36
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p
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Bar.
-
A tempo, q=60
poco rit.
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55 Bar.
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of the bam - boo grass
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58 Bar.
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62 Bar.
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"
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5 : 5 :
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pp
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+
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pp .# # +# + # + +# ;% :
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9 :
9 :
poco accel.
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the
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I think
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rit.
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+
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+
A tempo, q.=60
!
grass
+
.. ## .#
here
9 :
bam - boo
+
//... ###
A tempo, q.=60
7
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+
pp
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I think
80 Bar.
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74
Bar.
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)+ #
(with discretion)
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Pno.
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69
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8+ +++
poco accel.
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;% 1 :
Più mosso, q.=66
6
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& 9 :
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98 Bar.
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93
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89 Bar.
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poco rit.
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p
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mp
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poco rit.
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3 + + + + +2 +
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