Re: Summer solstice

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:57:55 GMT
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The Bibliographer wrote:
> In article <email-address-deleted>,
> Herb Childs <email-address-deleted> wrote:
> >My favorite pieces alluding to Summer:
> >1. Schoeck: Sommernacht.
> >2. Webern: Im Sommerwind.
> >3. Honegger: Pastorale d'ete.
> >4. Delius: Summer night on the river; A song of summer; In a summer
> >garden; Summer evening (a 4-way tie).
> >More suggestions are welcome.
>
> And, in a direct reference to the solstice itself, Hugo Alfven's
> "Midsommervaka."
>
Several more Delius titles: the songs "Summer Eve" and "Summer Nights",
the partsongs "Midsummer Song" and "Two Songs to be Sung of a Summer
Night on the Water".
A few more:
anon. 14th cent. English, "Sumer is icumen in"
Robert Jones's "On a Time in Summer Season" from A Musicall Dreame; or, Fourth Booke of Ayres, (1609)
Michael East's "Why Are Our Summer Sports?" from The Fourth Set of Bookes (1619)
Samuel Arnold, Thomas Arne, Tommasso Giorgani and Charles Dibdin's ballad-opera Summer Amusement; or, An Adventure at Margate (1779)
Samuel Barber's Summer Music, for wind quintet, op. 31
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Frank Bridge's Summer (1914)
George Butterworth's "On the Idle Hill of Summer", from Bredon Hill and Other Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Eté
Charles Ives's "The Fourth of July": 3rd movement (Summer) from A Symphony; Holidays (1904-13)
Charles Ives's song "In Summer Fields"
Liza Lehmann's "Summer Storm", no. 5 from The Life of a Rose; a group of seven short songs (pub. 1906)
George Frederick McKay's "Song to Summer", no. 3 from Three Troubadour Songs, arr. for 2 harps and piano
Paul Juon's "Upon a Balmy Summer Sunday", no. 1 from Five Tone Poems for the piano, op. 79 (pub. 1925)
Edvard Grieg's "A Lovely Summer Evening"
E. L. Ashford's A Summer Roundelay, for organ
Charles Wakefield Cadman's A Country Vacation: How Donald and Constance Spent the Summer. Eight descriptive pieces for the piano, op.37
Mendelssohn's Fantasy on The Last Rose of Summer, op. 15
Toshi Ichiyanagi's Flowers Blooming in Summer, for harp and piano (1982)
Ray Green's "Summer Grass" from Four Short Songs
Rimsky-Korsakov's "A Dream in the Summer Night", op. 56 no. 2
Eleanor Everest Freer's "Summer Night"
Hugo Weisgall's End of Summer, for tenor voice, oboe and string trio
John Hatton's "Stars of the Summer Night"
Rossetter G. Cole's The Passing of Summer: A Lyrical Idyll, for soli, chorus, and orchestra, op. 14 (pub. 1902)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Summer Is Gone"
Schoenberg's "Sommermorgen an einem See", op. 16, no. 3 (from Five Pieces for Orchestra)
Iain Hamilton's Songs of Summer
Edward MacDowell's (writing as Edgar Thorn) "Summer Song", no. 3 from Six Fancies for the piano, op. 7
Sibelius's Suite for Violin and String Orchestra, op. 117, third movement "In the Summer"
Christian Wolff's Summer (1961)
Louise Talma's Summer Sounds, for clarinet and string quartet
Richard Rodney Bennett's Summer Music for flute and piano
Vivian Fine's Quintet (after paintings by Edvard Munch), first movement "Mid-summer Night"
William Bolcolm's Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, first movement "Summer Dreams"
Elgar's "As Torrents in Summer"
Lee Hoiby's opera Summer and Smoke
George Crumb's "The night in silence under many a star -- Vocalise 1. Sounds of a summer evening" from Apparition: elegiac songs and vocalises for soprano and amplified piano
George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening, for two amplified pianos and percussion (two players): (Makrokosmos III)
Prokofiev's Summer Day Suite, op. 65a (1935/41)
Robert Erickson's Summer Music for violin and tape (1984)
Arnold Bax's Summer Music (1920/32)
George Rochberg's Serenata d'Estate (1955)
Wilhelm Stenhammar's Sensommarnatter (Nights of late summer): five piano pieces, op. 33 (1914)
John Verrall's "Summer Evenings", third movement from Holiday moods : Suite for band (1948)
Katherine Hoover's Summer Night
Alban Berg's "Sommertage", the last of the Seven Early Songs (1907)
Walter Piston's "Summer Evening", no. 2 from Three New England Sketches (1959)
Hindemith's "On hearing 'The Last Rose of Summer'" from Nine English Songs (1942)
David del Tredici's In Memory of a Summer Day (Child Alice, part 1)
Stephen Foster's "Our Bright Summer Days Are Gone"
John Knowles Paine's "The Summer Webs", op. 14 no. 2
Seymour Barab's "Bed in Summer" from A Child's Garden of Verses, vol. 2
Bohuslav Martinu's "Balada letní" from the cabaret Red Seven
Ned Rorem's End of Summer
Hilding Rosenberg's "Den ljusa sommarnatten" (Light summer nights), fourth movement of Bergslagsbilder (scenes from the Bergslag), op. 72, suite for small orchestra
Bartók's "Nyár", op. 15 no. 2
Amy Beach's "The Summer Wind", op. 14 no. 1, and Farewell Summer, for piano, op. 102 no. 1
Aaron Copland's " A Summer Vacation"
Stephen Paulus's Summer (opera in two acts)
Robert Ward's "Summer be seen no more within this wood" (no. 3 from the song cycle Love's Seasons)
Benjamin Britten's "Not Even Summer Yet "
Robert Starer's Music for a Summer Afternoon (1999)
Declaring a "Vivaldi-free zone" nevertheless evokes all those "(Four)
Seasons" compositions by other composers (Christopher Simpson, Haydn,
John Cage, Glazunov, Tschaikowsky, Albéniz, Takemitsu, Emma Lou Diemer,
Heinz Holliger, etc.), as well as works not so-titled but having the
seasons as theme (and therefore containing one movement or section
devoted to summer):
Prokofiev's ballet Zolushka (Cinderella) has a number, "The Fairy of
Summer"
Attila Bozay's String Quartet No. 3, op. 40 "Évszakfordulók ünnepei" (Feasts of equinoxes), 4th movement: "Nyár (A leghosszabb nappal)" (Summer (the longest day))
Morton Gould's Burchfield Gallery, fourth movement "Summer"
Ned Rorem's Letters from Paris, for four-part mixed chorus and small orchestra (no. 3 "Summer")
Stockhausen's Sirius, "Summer" quadrant of the "Wheel" section
Michael Tippet's cantata The Crown of the Year
--
Jerry Kohl <email-address-deleted>
"Légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnakat."