Three Love Songs for Voice and Piano

Keane Southard

Three Love Songs for

Voice and Piano

(2021) (Duration: c. 10 mins.)

Program notes: The first of these Three Love Songs was composed in March 2021 and is a setting of the poem “A Love Song” by American poet Theodosia Garrison from her 1917 book The Dreamers and Other Poems. My setting of “A Red, Red Rose” was composed almost entirely on Valentine’s Day 2021 and sets the famous poem by the 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns. And lastly, I composed “Again and Again” in 2016 which sets the poem “Immer Wieder” by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke in my own translation from German. These songs are all dedicated to my love and wife Diane.

Keane Southard 2021

Performance instructions: 1. Tenuto marks (-) over notes indicate more weight/stress on the note and does not indicate space to be placed in between that note and the next (unless the tenuto is combined with a staccato).

2. Unless otherwise indicated, the damper pedal (for the piano) should be used discreetly to allow for maximum clarity.

Keane Southard/Spindrift Pages Email: keane.southard@hotmail.com Website: keanesouthard.instantencore.com

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

       pp       

            

             

                

              

     

8 mf

25

      

 

And I will luve

     mp

     

        

 

   dry

   

 

  

  

     

    





31



  

my dear,

        

             

mf

           

       

     

my dear, And the

                  

still,

3    



 

    3   dry,

  

         



28

thee





Till

a'

the

seas

 gang

                  mp                



ff unwavering

   3   

 

Till a' the seas

   

   

         ff

       

       rock melt wi'

the

 sun;

gang

     

              I will luve thee

                                                                           



35



  

still,

  

3   

my dear,

      

While the

   

 sands

  





39



shall

run.

life

 

     

 

38 Slowly accel.



 

                          

                          

o'

9

    fff                            rit.

                                    



        

                                            

Tempo I rit.

 





  



 

                                                 f

6

     

6



6

6

     

6

6

 

6



10

(x = 60) Tempo I p dolce

e = 60 molto rit.

41

3          And fare thee well, my                                          

 

mp

6

6

3

         

      

 

  

on

 

 







-

ly

3

  

Luve,



  

 

And

       6

I



will

come

    p

  

tre corde

while!

        

6

6

 

 

 







           

a

   

3



 

thee well

 



49

 

And fare

             6 6     



pp

una corda

44

  

6

3

3

3

3





a - gain,

   

 my

        

mf

  

 Luve,

             

   3

Though it

  

11 e = 72

rit.

54

  were

      

p





ten

thou

 -

          mp

sand

p

mile.

        



  





Though it were

 

         

 

ten

 3       p

3

   

  

rit.

59

 



thou

-

sand

  

A tempo



  

  



molto rit.



 



mile.

                                           6



     6

 

 

ppp

pp

    una corda

  

 

     

For Diane

Again and Again

Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Keane Southard

 

q = 48

Keane Southard











3         3                              pp                               



    p   

   

   

   

una corda con ped.

p

5

     

mp

     

 

3

A - gain and a - gain,

           

3            mp        

wheth - er we

     

  

 

 

  3    

know

 

 

well

the land - scape of

 

 

 

 

 

 

tre corde 8

 

          

love

  

and the ti - ny

 

with expression

e = 72 p without expression

poco rit.

  

 

         

cem - e - ter -y

     

p

  

pp

with its plain - tive

 

names

                      ©2016

3    

and the

 

13 mp

poco rit.

p

Tempo I

pp



f

3                                ter - ri - ble har - bor - ing can - yon in - to which the oth - ers fall: A- gain and a    3                                         pp ppp mp p f                             tre corde  una corda 

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3

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rit.

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  

flow - ers

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fac - ing the

sky.

ff



  

mf

3               



    3                  3 



  









  

     

                              

       

  

3



 3                       

a - mong the



            3       



    

               

trees, a -gain and a - gain we rest



  



                     

un-der the old

       



we two go forth

   

gain

   

  



 3       3 

    

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