Mezzoid@a... wrote:
> I am putting together an application for a competition featuring the > music of > Finnish composer Yrjo Kilpinen. For a variety of reasons, I have not yet > ordered/received the music for the 2nd and 3rd rounds and I need to > select a > couple of songs, two in Finnish, three in Finnish/German/Swedish.
Hi Christine,
I picked up several books of Finnish songs, published by Fazer, a few years ago while in Helsinki. The 2 volumes of Suomalaisia Yksinlauluja contain 11 songs by Kilpinen, 7 originally in German, the rest in Finnish. Most of them are fairly short (2 or 3 pages), and the range, even in the high voice edition rarely goes above the staff. Two contrasting and fairly short Finnish songs from book 1 are Laululle (To the Song) marked andante cantabile and needing sustained and fairly quiet singing; Tunturilaulu (Song of the Fells) marked allegro con anima and needing a big sing with a large sustained ending. Both songs are under 2 minutes on the Jorma Hynninen recording. Ihme (Wonder), also from book 1 is a larger song marked allegro, jubiloso and requiring at times an almost breathless delivery contrasting with a more dramatic declamatory section and finishing with an expansive, rhapsodic section. Finnish is a wonderful language to sing in. It is an entirely phonetic vowel oriented language, every letter has one sound, and every letter is pronounce
> retiring > from choral singing would allow me to be more on top of things, but I > still > have to work on the procrastination problem.... <sigh>
I hear you!!
Cheers Craig, Burnaby BC
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