Songs and Arias

1989

16 minutes

French horn, violin, and cello

David Jolley

July 12, 1990, Portland, Oregon, Chamber Music Northwest; David Jolley, French horn, Eriko Sato, violin, and Fred Sherry, cello

Available on demo CD

1. Love-Song
2. Elizabethan Song
3. Rupert’s Aria from the opera “Unfulfilled”
4. Arioso
5. Duet (homage to Claude Debussy)
6. Aria from the cantata “Leben O süsses schreckliches Leben”
7. Canto Hondo (Deep Song)

Songs and Arias for French Horn, Violin and Cello is my most recent work based on vocal forms. Lieder for Viola and Piano was written in 1979, Toccatas and Arias for Harpsichord in 1986, Toccatas and Arias for Piano in 1987, Madrigali Spirituali, for trumpet and string quartet, in 1989. There is a wide range of moods in Songs and Arias: the elegiac mood of the Arioso, the intensity of Canto Hondo, the parodies Rupert’s Aria (from the non-existent opera “Unfulfilled”) and the Aria from the equally non-existent Cantata.

 –Composer’s note to the score

Love-Song

Duet