Six Songs from a Winter's Pillow Book by Malama Music

Jerré Tanner, music Harvey Hess, verse text

Six Songs from a Winter’s Pillow Book a song cycle for contralto or mezzosoprano and piano

Malama Music Honolulu · Hawai’i

Six Songs from a Winter’s Pillow Book a song cycle for contralto or mezzo-soprano and piano music by Jerré Tanner English tanka by Harvey Hess composed for contralto Arlene Samuelson White

Time 29:00

Background

The “Pillow Book” songs began life I 1970 when ethnomusicologist Ricardo Trimillos asked me to compose a work for koto. I countered with setting the cycle of six tanka by Harvey Hess, and he agreed. The premiere and pan-Island tour took place the following fall with Bay-area contralto Arlene Samuelson White. I later transcribed the koto parts for piano, and later still created two orchestral settings: for medium and for full orchestra. Arlene wanted a work that would showcase the full potential of her voice – a three-octave range, ability to leap wide intervals, rapid runs and a deeply expressive lyricism – all elements inherent in this tanka cycle. Technically challenging, the “Six Songs from a Winter’s Pillow Book” is also a deeply rewarding work with the full emotional range from despair to ecstatic elation. -JT

Performance

Technically challenging, the “Six Songs from a Winter’s Pillow Book” is also a deeply rewarding work with the full emotional range from despair to ecstatic elation. It can be performed by either a contralto with alternate high notes or a mezzo-soprano with altered low notes, or ideally by a singer with an extended range. I think of this cycle as almost a one-character opera with the action advancing through a set of short scenes or even as linked music videos. The intent is to be highly dramatic and a virtuosic tour de force. -JT

About the composer

Jerré Tanner (b. 1939 - ), a long-time resident of Hawaii, has devoted much of his creative energy to the creation of a repertory of music based on Hawaiian culture including opera, symphonies and other symphonic music, art songs and original choral works and settings of traditional Hawaiian songs. He holds an MA degree in composition from San Francisco State University, has been awarded the Hawaii Artist Fellowship from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts [HSFCA], has received grants from the HSFCA, the National and Hawaii Bicentennial Commissions, two commissions from the American Composers Forum’s “Continental Harmony” commissioning program for the states of New Mexico and North Carolina and has been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra.

See also

Biography www.jerretanner.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Hess YouTube Tanner music videos http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jerre+tanner

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Six Songs from a Winter's Pillow Book

Text by Harvey Hess

Prelude

Veloce Agitato ( )     1        Piano                Accel. 8     P

       





      

 







 

 

 





       

                                                          

Music by Jerré Tanner

       

  







                           

Adagio ()                 

         

 1 Veloce Agitato ()                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

                                          

  

 

  

                                           

                                                                                             © 1972 Jerré Tanner & Harvey Hess · all rights reserved

  

2                    28                                                                                                     32                                                                                             



  

    

                

             

  

     

   

    

3 Adagio                            

                          

Accel. e Dimin. 48                         

                  

                

       

() Accel. e Dimin.                                             

       

()

4 Adagio                               

                                  

                      

           ()            

         

       

                                                        

                  

  

                            

            64                                                     cresc.                       6  Pesante        68                                                               

   

   

                                                     

      

      

5 ()                                        cresc.            

   

         

          

      

  

 

     

    

   

                                          

                    

                    

 

6 77



 80







  



   

  

   

    



 



 



 

 



     

 





   

    

     

quit - ed.

8 Adagio            



    

  



Adagio

       

  

 



 

 



      

  



                                       

  

                                        3  3

light



 ()

   





    

 

      





     

   

 

un - re - quit - ed

       



 

   



  

  





you

  

  

    

   

7 Lento () 89     

  

      

  

 

    

  

  

  

   

  

  

    



     

 









            





 



for





       

        

   

 



      

 

102

 



102

          108     

  

  

       

                    



 



108

112













9 Più Mosso                        

    

light

 

 

 



          

for

   



quit - ed.

you

 



                        118





quit - ed

               









            

yes,





re -



           

          

          118                                                                  



Allegro ()                  





  

                                    11



 





10 Pesante ( )

112





know

Yes,





you

Meno Mosso                    

  

124

 

try,





you

                         

124

  













128







128

   

 

                       

  

132

 



         136





 

  



try...





 



 Rallentando



                                     

  

 



 12 Adagio ()   though

yours

Accel.

         

                





star

132



 

  



    

Più Mosso              

 

    

 

far,

Pesante, Meno Mosso 3                 136                                                                   3



        



far

Stringendo 







                              

140



    

 









  

                     

mine



 

154

 

fla

161

 

  

mine,

13 Adagio ()



 

           



                 

   

   

       



 





      

 



yours.

II: Later that Night, in a Blizzard 



                  ten.                                             all

  

161



Adagio ()   154                  14



 

 



from

                  ten.    



146



Molto   Rall.           140                                      

146

 



gra

                     



 -









 



     

  -

 

      

tion

                  



15 Veloce Agitato ()     Con



 





    

 

  

             comes,

                   



  

165









                

165





168



 171



 

     

 

 

   

  

 

    

  

  

      

 



     

    

  





   

  

   

         comes,

16 171                                                           





                comes



way,

                                                                                    

174

     



174

  



168



           

            comes my  179                  179



185



     185            



    

you,

 





          

 

         al ways         196               196



 



 

    

 



 you

           

  

   





   

fire  3  19                                      3       fire

me,



 

 17    

  

   way, Pesante, Meno Mosso                       comes my

18 a Tempo ()           cresc.              

     

  al ways fire me,            191                                                                                           191

 

       way,                                            







      me,





  

Dimin. 3



            3

   





         

      3

  

         3

ways,

  



     

 

12 V

      

201



       

  ways,

201

 

     



 



what

   may 



206

       3      

211



20   211     

 

     

                3

               

216





    







         3



       

        

       



your

love,

                                      



  



                   

  



 am

       





    

       

 

                     3              

    



 

                      





  



216



come.

 

3          3                     Dimin.            3

206

 

 

  



   

      

  





219



219



  

  



   

   



222





227



  

  

  

  









    

     

 

      

  



 

               



 

 







                     

                                     

                         am am   your love,    232                                                                  







  



 

 



   

  

    

   





love,



232



your

227

   



 



222



         your

  



                 

14 237



 

 237           



                 

  

 



243

247

 

247

  oth





love,







   

        

    

 

what



er,

  



flame

   

     

   

 

 legato    



am your

               

()                  -

23 Allegro       

   

                    

 









you

dis

                                                                             

                  

                

am your



 251                                                                                         cov



Morendo                     

251

  

     

 

            



love,



22 Meno Mosso                                                                          

love,

243

    





 

flame





                      

            

    

  



255







you





                                           

261







    

269

    

  275



275

    



 



            



  



  

    



    

  

          

 



   



win - ter,

    



             



I am your 25 Adagio () 269     P



     261                  

III:



24 Adagio, Perdendosi                            

dis - cov

255



      am your



 









 

   





       aniente 

 



 

a niente



 



win - ter,

     

  



                      

                 I am your win - ter, you 26                           

    

 



280





say,

 





So,

     

  Christ

  

        

 

289

 

     

 

  

   

                                       

 



pre

27 Adagio espressivo                         

rose,





ter

    

       

   

say.

mas,

 

 

    



    

 





 

    

sents you

         

 



                              



   

              

 28 3       3                                         3  3  3   3                                              a

294

                  

                

294

win

  



                            

  

289

   



   



     then,

284



                             284



you

 



280



 





rose,

                      

  

 

299



         

302

   

305



                    3  3           3



   



302

     





 



 

 a

                                 

 



 

29                                                        3 3                                            3       rose,



pro



 

      

  



mise,

spark

                    3  3 3 3                                                          

305

308













snow,

  



3  3                                                                                                    3 3   3 3

308

  



311

pect





ing

 



bloom,

                                      3   3         3                                        

 

311

 



313

will

     

316

                  

313

  

do?

 

                       will  

                           

316

 

319

 

319

 

 Molto Ritard.              



 

do?

       

 

Morendo                 



 

    will

                                               I

           

  

 



do?

             

     

                      

    

 







 

 

a niente



IV: On a Gift of Flowers, Incense and Candles

  

323



30 Allegro () What

is not

in -censed









 

what



was

  



sent

          



fra

    

 346

 

 

what

          

346

 



from

        was



 

          sent



 

fad - ed

   

      



censed

          





past,



  

         

       

 

   

 

past,





 



   

from fad - ed

   





                               

     

339

not





    

 



              

               

  

grance







grance,

    

                 

339

     







332

      fra -



332

sent

 



323

was

 





  

   

  

         

  



   32                           good

and



352







bad,

                    

  



             fra

con licenza

   

365



   

      

370

bloom

 

   

  

ing,

 

              5

 

 

   

bloom

 

      



in -censed

           



   

yet



                        

370

   



a niente

is not

 

   







         

365

 



 

Meno Mosso                    

    

33 Allegretto ()                             5 

           

  



 



  



grance,

359



 



359

 

                 

352

 



seems

34    

  

 



pres - ent

  

cresc.



                          

 

ing,

 

bloom





                                            

 

 

374

 



ing,

 liberamente          



bloom

3                                               con licenza  5  5                         



374

                 



379

         

379

  

383

     a  pre       35

  

walks



sent

 through

 

   dusks

blue,

 

           5



    

bloom - ing



  

      



           

 

   





 



 



           

weed

stalked

   

  

                   

      

bloom

36 Stringendo                            

                                                           

388

ing,

a Tempo                 5    

388

                                             

383



 



 

                 

                

392

           

392

 

  



 -



  



sent

 

402

     



           



3 3 3                         

37 Meno Mosso             cresc.             

402

     

bloom

 

399

5                      396                      5       

pre



399



ing,

                                       



396

Allegretto ()

          

weed

                  





 

 stalked

    

  



ing

                



         

      



walks

            



   

      





 

      

    

 

   

     

  

through

dusks

  

38               

 

cadenza



 

 

 

39 415   P

 

 





  



 

 









 

     





  

 

 

   

    







        

 





           

  





  

  



a Tempo                  

  





blue.

 

       



  

dusks

  

      

ten.



Andante ()            



            

                walks through  Rall.        410                         



 

 

415



blue,

       

410



stalked

weed

408



Pesante, Meno Mosso  405                                                                     408

  



405



 



 



 

           

 



423











                            

423



432









   

438

 

   

 

 



 













sec



   

445



ond

look,



  

 

 

    

cress,



   



 



   

    

           wa

   

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

      



ter

Ritard.          

41 a Tempo, Accel.                                 

     



       

 



look,

445



sec - ond



the



438

   

                                           

432

the



 

  

ter



cress,

42 Allegretto ()      

                           

   

   

 



 

 

    

   



451







 

             

 

  -

 



 -



fed

          

 



     

460

spring

460

 

 

the

   

legato

steams











the



 

 -

brook, spring

    

 



steams,

       



the

   





43 Adagio ()                                        brook:

fed

                                  





  

 

steams

       



    

      



spring

the

         

     



fed



                          

brook,

457



                           

453

457

cres



ted

cress



453



      

451

ter

 



    

     

the

               



 steams

 



        



 



465

 

the

spring



                    3 3            

fed

  



  of    

470

 



  

   

     473

      be

  

475

tween

   



   

fed

  

 

brook:  

drifts,

the

spring

  

                    

   





            y,





springs

   

    



 

                   

Ritard.     

                            





Dream -

                



   







 

Dream

               



      

 

spring  



            



           

      

  

475



 the

473

brook:





470



44 Allegretto ()  3 3                                           

465



 



  



478





 





snow star 45 Moderato ()   478                                            sub.                       480         ry,

                                                                               

480

  

482

Dream







 -

  





                         

482

484

  



tween

  

484





 



 





 





drifts,







tween





     

                       

   

28 486

 







   







  





    

  

    

495

blos

            

som

star

     

 

           

 -

 

46   Andante ()                  

   

ing,



        



blos

        

    

         som-

 

              blos som - ing, blos - som - ing, star -snow - y       Meno Mosso                                                                      

        



  

    

a Poco Rall. e Dimin.     Poco        491                                                                                  

ing,



495

   

snow    Rall.   Molto Rall.            488                                              4                                 491





   



488



 

the spring springs           486                                                                                             drifts,





    



 

    

500

blos

 

    

 

500

       

505





VI:







    

47 Allegretto ()            Though

not

dawn,

505

514

  not

514

         

522



dawn,

       

       -

som, blos



ten.   









som

Adagio

  









 



 

 ing. 

 

 

 

 









 

  

 

    

 





 





though

   

 

 















          

            

 

     





 



though

not

48                                                        

dawn,

             6   



ten.



522











   

     

  

    

  





       

  

524





 





                                                               9 9  6 6       9

(Œ =Œ.)

524



526

         



      

526



528



     9

 





Poco a Poco Dimin.                                           



                                                                                       

528

530





                                

530





 





531



   I see a ci Con Alcuna Licenza 531                                  



536





536





           

             

   

shell,

50      

       

542

  

freed

547



   

        





from

        





shell,

   

                 

 

see



 



  



ice





 

 





     da

       

 



 



freed,









      



 





                          547

 





49 Allegro ()                                     ca

                   

     

542



   

      



          





          

thawed



 on

            



551

 51





tree;

 

 

555



560

I Pesante                                             





  

 cresc.               

 

freed,

 

freed,



560









    

 

 

 

Stringendo             

                         

               

ah,

       

               from ice thawed aTempo                     564                                          

           



564



see a ci ca da shell, freed,     I         52                             555                                                             see,



                                    

551





 

             

 on

 a

                          

 

tree,

thawed





    freed



ah,

     







   



tree,

  

   

        

 

   







freed

ah,

                                                              

 

       



      

  





   

ah,





       

     





Stringendo                                             

 







Moderato () wil - lows,                     580                                                     54

  





                               

Accel. ah,   576                     580



        

                                  

576



 

572





53                                                     

568               

572





568

34 587



587







wil - lows,

      









           



  ri



 



ice - bent

   



limbs

             







 



zons,



 





brush

     



               

  

                       

608



















55 Andante    Poco a Poco Rall. e Dimin.          594                                                                                                   

608





wil - lows' pearl - y









brush

601



Meno Mosso              





601







594







  -



  





 5



       

zons,

 

 

 





         



56 Adagio ()











  -

ho -

 -

zons,

                      



 Rall.              

where

stars

 





      dim.

616



616





    





a niente





  







    



     





      

 





        6



   









    



 





dawn,

though



  

 

dawn,





 

 

not 6

    

      



  

 

 

  

 



 











 



 

  

dawn,

            



              6

 





              

   





not

 





 

    



    





638

Though

not



638

 

Poco a Poco Accel. e Cresc.   



 

















633



           

633



though

626











57 Allegretto ()     a niente 

626







 

         6

   

36 640



640



          

 



not



 







         



    





     



  dawn.....

          



    





   











                                       9

644

                 6



 644

 

          

though



 

642



642

 

















