She Made in her Triumph

for voice, piano and percussion

Amanda Feery

Duration 6 Instrumentation - Soprano Piano Percussion

Performance Directions
Drum Key

Where there are square brackets in the score these indicate a free, improvisatory feel.

Taken from The Crazed Girl, by William Butler Yeats No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.' She Made in her Triumph is my first piece to set poetry to music. I thought about art songs I had studied in school. There was a calculated format - a trajectory for the melody, and a close relationship between the melody and the accompaniment. At times I felt that remaining bound to this structural convention neglected the tone of the poetry itself. This piece is my interpretation of an art song; the melody and accompaniment represent the tone and movement that personally drew me into the poem.

Voice

&4 4

U U j # j # # mm
pp

q = 60

but very rubato (b.1-14 are pretty much unmeasured), feel free to breathe where you choose dreamlike, like an improvised melody. (perc. and piano should wait for you)

&

U jU & j # # #

Perc.

15

q = 70 (with mallet) mf

mf

bow ride cymbal

lightly brush bow on cymbal

mp

(in a circular motion)

Piano

&

w w
mp

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& ?

mf

J
mf

w w

slight staccato

ballpark register suggestions. does not have to be exact pitches.

mf

mf

A
(cue for perc and piano)

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mm

mm

w
mf

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no

# j j . .
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just a little staccato.. :)

25

rub tom skin with brushes or hands stuttering rhythm slow-fast-slow

2 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 2 4 4 4

&

Crotales

mp

w w w w

<> & ?

mute piano strings,a stuttered rhythm, feathered semiquavers are just a rough idea.

&

stress the 'ss'

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2 4 4 4

32 B 4 /4

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p

tremolo ride cymbal (with mallet)

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4 & 4
& 4 4 ?4 4

mf

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f

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a slight accent, and stress the 'ow'

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wow ound

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stuttering, frantic rhythm on tom. slow-fast-slow (with mallet)

40

mf

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& &
tenuto

.
f

> > > > > f

(pluck piano string)

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bring out the 'aay' in made, bold and assertive

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46

w & w > mf & <>

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mf

bowed, with pedal

w w w

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#
mf

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a very subtle glissando

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53

(bowed)

(with mallet) f

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mf

bowed, with pedal

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f

mp

w #w w *

w w w

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>

tenuto

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wow ound

mf

j #
wow

D

mp

ound

wound

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with force, a convincing statement

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60

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lightly rub cymbal with mallet

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made

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in her

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64

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lightly rub cymbal with mallet

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w
still tenuto

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& & ?

b J
3

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> b

w
tri

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i i i i i umph

&

a stronger glissando glis s.

68

& &

? > > > > > & /

72

q = 75 (bowed)

& & ? &

mp

> > >

mute piano strings,a stuttered rhythm, feathered semiquavers just a rough idea.

w w
mp

mf

where the bales

77

O w w

O ~ w bw *

~ w w

~ U ww

q = 60

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n w w

mp

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q = 60

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but sang

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86

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& w & w w w ? & w

Lightly bow, I don't want the full pitch resonanted, but more of the sound of the bow against the metal. with pedal

w w w w

w w w w

w w w w w w

w w w w w

w w w

w w w w

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w w

&

w w

w w

sea

starved hun mp

gry

sea

oh

sea mf

starved

hun

gry

sea

98

& w & w w &

w w w

w w w

w w w

w w w

w w w

w w w

free time, follow tempo of voice

&

mmm mp

j # j # # w #

free time, same idea again - dreamlike, unmeasured feel.