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    Three Short SongsFor soprano and vibraphone

    2014

    A Dream

    Welcome Sweet Pleasure

    Sleep, Darksome, Deep

    David Dean Mendoza

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    Program Notes

    Three Short Songsfor soprano and vibraphone was written in the summer 2014 for

    the Resound Duo. For the source material of this composition, I chose three

    contrasting poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thomas Weekles, and Paul Verlaine. In

    order to fuse these different texts, I used modal patterns based on the pitch D.

    Performance Notes

    The performers may be as dramatic as they wish. They may exaggerate the

    performance with consumes and lighting. Generally, the use of mallet is left to the

    performer, but legato articulations should be preferred. The vibraphone should

    accompany the soprano and never over power her.

    Bent notes are executed by striking the bar with a medium/soft mallet then quickly

    using a hard mallet to slide outward on the bar away from the performer. This will most

    likely make a half step gliss/bend on the note. In addition, measures 50-51, 61-63, and

    similar measures are rhythmically the same as .

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    A Dream

    By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    That was a curious dream; I thought the three

    Great planets that are drawing near the sun

    With such unerring certainty begun

    To talk together in a mighty glee.

    They spoke of vast convulsions which would be

    Throughout the solar systemthe rare fun

    Of watching haughty stars drop, one by one,

    And vanish in a seething vapour sea.

    I thought I heard them comment on the earth

    That small dark objectdoomed beyond a doubt.

    They wondered if live creatures moved about

    Its tiny surface, deeming it of worth.

    And then they laughedtwas such a singing shout

    That I awoke and joined too in their mirth.

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    Welcome Sweet Pleasure

    Ballets and Madrigals to Five Voices

    By Thomas Weekles (1598)

    Welcome, sweet pleasure,

    My wealth and treasure;

    To haste our playing

    Theres no delaying,

    No no!

    This mirth delights me

    When sorrow frights me.

    Then sing we all

    Fa la la la la!

    Sorrow, content thee,

    Mirth must prevent thee:

    Though much thou grievest

    Thou none relieves.

    No no!

    Joy, come delight me,

    Though sorrow spite me.

    Then sing we all

    Fa la la la la!

    Grief is disdainful,

    Sottish and painful:

    Then wait on pleasure,

    And lose no leisure.

    No no!

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    Sleep, Darksome, Deep

    By Paul Verlaine

    Sleep, darksome, deep,

    Doth on me fall:

    Vain hopes all, sleep,

    Sleep, yearnings all!

    Lo, I grow blind!

    Lo, right and wrong

    Fade to my mind

    O sorry song!

    A cradle, I,

    Rocked in a grave:

    Speak low, pass by,

    Silence I crave!

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