Spartiti Virgil Thomson per canto

Edited by David Leisner. Arranged by David Leisner. For High Voice, Guitar. Soft Cover. 4 pages.

Available for the first time as a set, this joyful cycle of five religious songs illustrates Thompson's extraordinary skill at matching music to text. (Various religious texts.) Contents: Before Sleep...

This is the first substantial collection ever published of songs by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), composer of the operas The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts. Thomson's musical style was b...

Based on the Pervigilium Veneris Anonymous Latin Stanzas of the 2nd or 4th century A. D. and is translated by Thompson for baritone and orchestra.

This is the first substantial collection ever published of songs by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), composer of the operas The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts. Thomson's musical style was b...

American composer Virgil Thomson's Duet for Soprano and Baritone Voices is a setting of Jack Larson's poem which describes wittily the nature of the Cat through a cautionary tale.

English Only.

English Only.

Based on the tune from the Corpus Christi hymn Pange Lingua, this song depicts the shepherds' feelings approaching the manger.

Also wittily subtitled 'Strike till the iron is hot', this is a comic, almost 'nonsense' song based on a poem by Marianne Moore.

Like Virgil Thomson's opera 'Four Saints in Three Acts', this is a setting of text by Gertrude Stein. Also similarly to 'Pigeons on the Grass Alas' from that opera, it draws musical material from the...

Opera in Two Acts. Ostensibly a biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffragette movement, Stein's libretto slyly fractures history and expands the argument beyond votes for women to the essence of e...