Two songs for female voice and accordion

by Minna Leinonen

Two songs from the song cycle Shom


Description

The first song from the song cycle Shom, Man goes into noisy crowd, is a virtuosicmovement. In its vocal part I play a lot with vowels and syllables. In the middle of thesong there is a partly improvised cadenza for voice. The second song, When the sungoes down, is a simple and static movement, a descending line. Its Bengalese wordsremind of a sunset seen from the East. By the time of composing this movement Iwas fascinated by the possibility of the accordion to produce a continuous line, whichvibrates without any interruptions or pauses. Both songs are from the song cycle Shom.


Instrumentation

mezzo, acc

Category

Vocal and Choral Works

Language

En

Premiere

Virpi Räisänen-Midth, mezzosoprano, Timo Kinnunen, accordion. Time of Music,Viitasaari (Finland) 7 July 2007 Fbp: Jutta Seppinen, mezzosoprano and Veli Kujala, accordion; Meeri Pulakka, soprano and Antti Leinonen, accordion, 100,3 Mhz, 13 September, 2010.

Movements

I Man goes into noisy crowd, II When the sun goes down

Commisioned by / dedications

Dedicated to Timo Kinnunen and Virpi Räisänen-Midth.

Archive number

MF20354


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Minna Leinonen

Two songs for female voice and accordion

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