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...valse oubliée... : for three-octave wire-strung harp or harp / Ross James Carey
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
7 gezangen voor bariton met pianobegeleiding : 1981 / Dirk Verdonk
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Twee liederen : opus 30, Den Haag 1946 / [tekst] (Rainer Maria Rilke), Léon Orthel
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
3 liederen voor hoge stem : 1943 / (tekst: Boutens), Henk Bijvanck
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano; Voice and organ
Scoring:
sopr pf/org
composition
Nine Poems from "Meeting the Comet" : for countertenor or mezzo-soprano and piano / Ross James Carey; poems by Fleur Adcock
Author(s):
Adcock, Fleur
(Text writer/Librettist)
Carey, Ross James
(Composer)
Description:
Nine Poems from ‘Meeting the Comet’ is a setting of nine poems by New Zealand born, U.K. resident poet Fleur Adcock, from her set of twenty-four poems, 'Meeting the Comet'. These describe a young girl with a disability and her encounter with Halley's Comet, as seen in the skies from New Zealand in the 1980s. The setting is of poems number 3, 6, 9 ‘So far’, 11 ‘Stars’, 14 ‘Comet’, 15 ‘Halley party’, 18, 22 and 24.