Faculty Sponsor(s)
Justin Ralls and Anna Song
Subject Area
Music
Description
This semester I got the amazing opportunity to compose an art song for Arwen Myers and Susan McDaniel. It was a wonderful and extremely educational experience to compose and workshop my piece with professionals and to be able to experience the spectacular performance video that was created. My art song was a setting of "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!," a poem by Emily Dickinson. I tried to lean into the theme of "Wild" in my piece, using many varying time signatures, a feeling of atonality, and a large range in both the vocal and piano parts. I also tried to use text painting throughout the piece to help bring the text alive and emphasize the poetry in this musical setting. The final art song, "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" for solo soprano and piano accompaniment, performed by Arwen Myers and Susan McDaniel, is just over two minutes in length and can be viewed above.
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Rain G., "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" (2021). Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement. Event. Submission 24.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2021/all/24
Wild Nights - Wild Nights!
This semester I got the amazing opportunity to compose an art song for Arwen Myers and Susan McDaniel. It was a wonderful and extremely educational experience to compose and workshop my piece with professionals and to be able to experience the spectacular performance video that was created. My art song was a setting of "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!," a poem by Emily Dickinson. I tried to lean into the theme of "Wild" in my piece, using many varying time signatures, a feeling of atonality, and a large range in both the vocal and piano parts. I also tried to use text painting throughout the piece to help bring the text alive and emphasize the poetry in this musical setting. The final art song, "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" for solo soprano and piano accompaniment, performed by Arwen Myers and Susan McDaniel, is just over two minutes in length and can be viewed above.
