Music Text
traditional spiritual (E)
Scoring
2(2=picc).2.2.2--2.2.0.0--timp.tgl--strings
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Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
19/02/2004
Saratoga Springs, New York
Nathan Myers, baritone / Albany Symphony Orchestra / David Alan Miller
Composer's Notes
I am a sucker for major sixth — hence, my attraction to the spiritual, Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, with its characteristic falling-sixth interval. Rather than produce a simple orchestration of the lovely and traditional harmonization, I have built the melody into a full baritone aria, with freely-composed interludes as well as a key-changing developmental section. At the very end, I quote a melody of my own (from Final Alice) that features, not surprisingly, another sixth — now, however, rising.
– DAVID DEL TREDICI
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