D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y

1982

INFORMATION

Poems by e.e.cummings
For: Soprano, Hn, 2Tpt, Tbn, Tba, Piano, Perc
Duration: 10 minutes

D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y is a setting of three poems by e.e.cummings which take the theme of dreaming as their central image. The first, now is a ship, uses floating as a metaphor, D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y uses falling leaves and finally O speaks of darkness and rain. These dimensionless images inspired the floating lines and accompanying figures of the music and cummings' use of typography - unconventionally splitting words, running others together, putting in upper case letters and punctuation marks at points you wouldn't expect - provides excuses for exploring non-verbal vocal sounds.