Flood
COMPOSER'S NOTE
Flood is part of a cycle of ten art songs on poems by James Joyce that I wrote during the winter and spring of 2019. Flood uses the metaphor of its namesake to explain the turbulent emotions of love that lurk beneath the surface.
Flood is also available as part of a compilation:
Ten Poems of James Joyce (High Voice and Piano)
Ten Poems of James Joyce (Medium Voice and Piano)
THE TEXT
Gold-brown upon the sated flood
The rock-vine clusters lift and sway;
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.
A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane,
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.
Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Thy clustered fruits to love’s full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude.
James Joyce, 1882 - 1941
James Joyce by Jacques-Émile Blanche
DURATION
2¼ minutes
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2019
CATEGORY
Solo Voice
VERSIONS
High Voice Solo and Piano
Medium Voice Solo and Piano
PERFORMING RIGHTS
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
PURCHASE SHEET MUSIC
US: TBA
World: TBA
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