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Camden Reeves
Songs of EnchantmentTwo Settings of Clark Ashton Smith
for female voice and piano
Score
2020
ce-cr2soe1-dl-s
Camden REEVES
Songs of Enchantment
Two Settings of Clark Ashton Smith
Female Voice & Piano
Female Voice
Accidentals: In the first song, accidentals apply only to the notes to which they are attached and immediate repetitions. Normal principles apply in the second song. Courtesy accidentals are given in both for ease of reading. Piano pedalling: The pedalling provided is only intended as a guide to the desired result. It is acceptable to depart from this, provided such departures remain faithful to the spirit of what is indicated.
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Duration: approximately 13 minutes (7’+6’=13’)
Programme Note
Songs of Enchantment – Two Settings of Clark Ashton Smith for Female Voice & Piano (2020) 1 – Desire of Vastness 2 – Harmony Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was an author, poet, visual artist and sculptor. As an author of weird fiction, he was associated with the Lovecraft circle and the pulp magazine Weird Tales. It is for these short stories – which range from tales of the macabre to fantasy and science fiction – that he is largely known today. It is my hope that these settings may play some part in drawing greater attention to the extraordinary qualities of Smith’s poetic work. A recurrent theme in Smith’s poetry and prose (as with that of H.P. Lovecraft) is cosmic horror: the irrelevance of human concerns in the face of a largely indifferent universe. These two texts offer contrasting meditations on time and space. ‘Desire of Vastness’ captures what it is like to stare into the darkness of the infinite void with wonder, longing and terror. In ‘Harmony’, one stares again and instead finds peace and tranquillity. I am grateful to CASiana Enterprises, the Literary Estate of Clark Ashton Smith, and William A. Dorman, for their kind permission to set Smith’s poetry.
Camden REEVES
Desire of Vastness
Supreme with night, what high mysteriarch— The undreamt-of god beyond the trinal noon
Of elder suns empyreal—past the moon Circling some wild world outmost in the dark—
Lays on me this unfathomed wish to hark What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
The brazen empire of the bournless waste, The unstayed dominions of the brazen sky— These I desire, and all things wide and deep; And, lifted past the level years, would taste
The cup of an Olympian ecstasy, Titanic dream, and Cyclopean sleep.
Harmony
Black pines above an opal tarn
And the grey cliff above the pines And the clouds above the cliff,
Rose-hued with a hidden sunset ....
O longed-for place beyond the world! Let love attain thy tranquil harmony,
Let love be high and everlasting And perfect as thou art.
Words: Clark Ashton Smith
With permission of CASiana Enterprises, the Literary Estate of Clark Ashton Smith
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Female Voice
Piano
√ wb -
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Ethereal & vast, e = 84 (with much rubato)
Ethereal & vast, e = 84 (with much rubato)
swirling with the colour, motion & depth of a spiral galaxy
Ped(extremely resonant throughout)
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Songs of Enchantment
Camden REEVES
Two Settings of Clark Ashton Smith, for Female Voice & Piano
1 – Desire of Vastness
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loco
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tri nal noon
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e = 92
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poco rit.
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Pno.
√
œ# - ≈ œ- -̇el der suns
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e = 80
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lightly - as an aside
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loco
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Pno.
(√)
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poco rit.
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cresc.
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loco
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poco accel.
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(√) √
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√
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accel.
accumulating energy
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loco
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cresc.
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e = 104
e = 104
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f bright
(release suddenly)
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Pno.
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sparkling with colour
loco
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dim.
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Pno.
(√) √
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jœ# -œ# -œ#
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poco rit.
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p becoming lighter
ploco
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e = 92
e = 92 lightly
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5
40
45
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Voice
Pno.
(√) √
œ ≈ œ# . .œ# Rœ#oo
œ# œ œb œn œ œ œb œ œn5:4œ- œ- œ-
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rit.
rit.
dim.
Ped( )
lightly - as an aside .˙#
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π
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loco
p e = 80
e = 80
dark
E
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Voice
Pno.
√
œ œ# œn œ œ# jœ ≈ œ œ œ#3 3
lifts in si
œ# . œ# . œ# . œ# . œ# . œ# œn œn œn œ œ# >5:3
Œ .œn >
œb œn œn4:3
&
accel.
accel.
delicate
Ped( )
œ jœ# œ .œ#lence,
.œ œb . œ# . œ# . œn . œ.
œ œ œ œn œ œ- .œ-5:3
cresc.
growing in depth
.˙
œ
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œb >œn œn œn œ# œ ?
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Voice
Pno.
(√)
jœ ‰ Œ .
œ œ# œ# œ#œ
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œ
œn>
œb œn œb œn>
œn œn œn œ# œ#
5:4
& ?
e = 92
e = 92
accel.
accel.
π
p
Ped( )
œ# ¯
œn > œn œn œ5:3 dim. œb
œb œ œn
&
loco
6
48
51
54
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Voice
Pno.
√‰U
œ#
œ œn œ
œ#
œ
œ# œ# œ# ‰U3
33
œ#
œn œ œ œ œ# œ#œ# œ#
‰U
e = 104
e = 104
∏
evaporating suddenly
Ped(gradual release)Ped(gradual release)
long
long
. .œ> œn œ œ ≈ œ œ#hin der less and
e = 92
e = 92
p marked
F
œ# œ œ# œ# œ#stark?
F .œ# .œ
œn
œb . œn .
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π
Ped
initially light & delicateloco
- -
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&
&
Voice
Pno.
√
˙ œ ‰
œn >œ#
œ# œ#œ# œ# -
œ#-
œ-
5:4
jœ jœ- œ#
œn>œn œb œb >5:3
? &
accel.
accel.
p
Ped( )
loco
(fragile sound)
œn . œn . œn . œ. œ# .5:3
.œ œb œn œn œ# œ#
œ œn œ#
œn >œb? &
cresc.
&
&
&
Voice
Pno.
œ œn œ
œn œ œ
œ# œ# œ#
œn5:4 5:4
e = 104
e = 104
accel.
accel.
accumulating energy & increasing depth
Ped( )
œn
œ# œ# œ#
œ œ œn
œ# œ# œ#3
3
?F
œ# œn œn œn œn œ#
œn œ œn œ œ œœ>
œb œnœ&
cresc.
7
56
59
61
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Voice
Pno.
√ √
œ œ œ# œ#œ œ
?f
Ped( )
œn >
œn>œn
œ œn œ œ&
loco
e = 112
e = 112
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œ œ œ œb -
Rœ#-
rœb
œ> œ œ
œ# œ# œ>œ# œ œn œn5:4
5:4œ
œ>œ#
3
? &
loco
rit.
rit.
F
opening out
&
&
&
Voice
Pno.
jœ-rœb -
œ
œn œ œb œb
œb
?dim.
Ped( )
jœb -œ. œn . œ. œ# .
œ#5:4
? &œb
œb >œn . Jœ#-
3
&
diffusing into the ether
(no pedal change)
œ œn .
œn . œ. œn . jœ
œ
# ¯
5:4
.œn- œ>
œ œ œ# œJœ
?dim.p œ
œ# œ# œ
e = 92
e = 92 becoming lighter & more distant
œn œn œ œ#œ
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42
42
42
85
85
85
83
83
83
Voice
Pno.
jœ
œ
.œ#¯ .œ#
¯ .œ̄ .œ# ¯
.œ< .œ< .œn < .œ<
.œ#π
poco rit.
poco rit.
Ped( )
G
bell-like
Œ . .jœ# -The
.œ̄ .Jœ
P enunciated
Ped(gradual release)
œ- jœ# -bra zen
.œ
.œ# - œ# -em pire
Jœ ‰ ‰ Œ
˙
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jœœœœœn ˙˙̇˙˙π
Hypnotic, q = 48 / q.= 32
Hypnotic, q = 48 / q.= 32
Ped
hazy pulsation
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63
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