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Notes of
Daybreak
High Voice and Piano
K y l e
V a
n d e
r b u
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First Performance on October 6, 2008, by Kristin Whiteman, mezzo-soprano and Carlyle Sharpe, piano, at Drury University, Springfield,
Missouri
Notes of Daybreak is a four movement song cycle for high voice and piano, based on the poetry of Walt Whitman. The
texts for each of the four movements come from the Walt Whitman poem of the same name. Each movement is written in
a different style, allowing each piece to have its own feel and emotional impact. In every case, the text was relied uponheavily to shape the structure and melody. The accompaniment utilizes many techniques, arpeggios, snippets of the
melody, traditional chords and harmonies, octatonicism, and various rhythmic devices, to support the soloist.
The first song in the cycle was also the first to be composed. That Music Always Round Me was originally intended to be a
standalone song, rather than the first song in a cycle, however after writing this, I decided I’d like to write more. The
setting of the text for this song was begun in late December 2007, making this the only song in the cycle to be started
before 2008.
The second song, I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ , was actually the third song to be composed, and was not nearly
as easy as the first two. I struggled to find a unique tone, but after watching Stephen Sondheim’s Company , I was inspired
by the accompaniment to the song Another Hundred People . After deciding on a similar accompaniment, the song wroteitself.
Writing for voice rather than for instrumental ensemble poses a different host of problems. The third song, The Last
Invocation , existed in at least three different manifestations before it became the piece being performed tonight. Between
being unsure how exactly to set the text, and how to make the accompaniment fit the mood of the text, I was originally
unsure of how to go about writing this piece, but eventually I found that a mix of major sonorities of rolled chords suited
the piece well.
Finally, the cycle ends with I Hear America Singing , which took inspiration from Carlyle Sharpe’s I Hear the Dance-Music of All
Nations . This song changed the least from original idea to final product, as one could see from the original sketches. It is
also the most challenging of the set due to the crazy use of time signatures, which change nearly every bar.
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Texts
All texts taken from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
That Music Always Round Me
That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long
untaught I did not hear,
But now the chorus I hear and am elated,
A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad
notes of daybreak I hear,
A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of
immense waves,
A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through
the universe,
The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and
violins, all these I fill myself with,I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the
exquisite meanings,
I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving,
contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in
emotion;
I do not think the performers know themselves--but now I think
begin to know them.
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn
I pass’d the church,
Winds of autumn, as I walk’d the woods at dusk I heard your
long-stretch’d sighs up above so mournful,
I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the
soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of
the wrists around my head,
Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last
night under my ear.
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The Last Invocation
At the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful fortress’d house,
From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,
Let me be wafted.
Let me glide noiselessly forth;
With the key of softness unlock the locks—with a whisper,
Set ope the doors O soul.
Tenderly—be not impatient,
(Strong is your hold O mortal flesh,
Strong is your hold O love.)
I Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the
deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the
morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work,
or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
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Copyright © 2008 Kyle Vanderburg, Vandemalioa Publishing (ASCAP)
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Kyle Vanderburg
(2008) Walt Whitman
That Music Always Round Me
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pran no- at in ter - vals- sail ing- boy ant- ly- ov er - the tops of im mense- waves,
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vi o- lins,- all these I fill my self - with, I hear not the vol umes- of
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selves but now I think I be gin- to know
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I
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last Sun day- morn
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I pass'd the church,
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Winds of aut umn,- as I
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walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long stretch'd sighs up ab ove- so
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(2008) Walt Whitman
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
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mourn ful,- I
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op' ra- I heard the so pran- no- in the
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of my love! you
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too I heard mur mer - ing- low through one of the wrists a -
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round
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Heard the pulse of you when
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all was still ring ing- lit
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night un der - my ear.
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At
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knit ted- locks,
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Walt Whitman
The Last Invocation
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Withthe key of soft ness-
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Set ope the doors O soul.
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I
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the var ied- car ols- I hear,
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blithe and strong,
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Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
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sing ing- his as he mea sures- his plank or beam,
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or leaves off work, The
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sing ing- what be longs- to him in his boat, the deck hand-
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sing ing- on the steam boat- deck, The
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shoe make- er - sing ing- as he sits on his bench, the hat ter - sing ing- as he
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or of the girl sew ing- or wash ing,-
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else, The day what be longs- to the day at night the
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par ty- of young fel lows,- ro bust,- friend ly,- Sing ing- with
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