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Table of Contents:

• Empty chair
• Enchantment
• Anger
• Dream
• Bird soul
• Lost
• Rage
• Coda: song.

Author/Creator:

Heggie, Jake, 1961- , composer

Contributors:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- , author

Houston Grand Opera , commissioning body

National Arts Centre , commissioning body

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Staff notation.
English words.

Main Work:

Songs for murdered sisters: for baritone and orchestra [by Heggie, J.]

Included Works:

Songs for murdered sisters [by Heggie, J.] (arranged)

Subjects:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- — Musical settings

Murder victims — Songs and music

Women — Crimes against — Songs and music

Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra — Scores

Song cycles

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Murder victims

Women — Crimes against

Women

Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra

Genres:

Song cycles

Musical settings

Arrangements (Music)

Art music

Songs

Scores

Songs and music

Performance Medium:

1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo baritone voice; orchestra

General Notes:

8 songs on poems by Margaret Atwood.
Originally composed for baritone and piano; arranged for baritone and orchestra.
Co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and Canada's National Arts Centre.
Orchestral version premiered by Joshua Hopkins and the National Arts Center Orchestra, Ottawa, in February 9, 2023.
Duration: approximately 28 minutes.

Physical Description:

1 score (42 pages) ; 36 cm

Call Numbers:

M1617.H44 S66 2023

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Bent Pen Music, Inc.: 1202SS

OCLC Numbers:

1372356867