On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Leo Morgan wrote:
> Hi Karen, where do you get the time to dig up all this info.,you are a > treasure. > > you mention Greig's " I love you dear "I did that for a competition,it has a > rather high > > tessitura for a baritone, the adjudicator said it sounded more like a > frontal assault
The nice thing about weddings - unless the two people getting married are obsessively correct musicologists - is that you can get away with all sorts of transpositions that you can't use in competitions.
There is a low-tessitura version of the song in the FIRESIDE BOOK OF LOVE SONGS (which is available at many public libraries). This book has a lot of Lieder and art songs in "popular" keys, and yet with reasonably good piano accompaniments and English translations of foreign texts (along with the original-language texts).
Even the original, which I have in the wonderful two-volume Grieg edition by Bradley Ellingboe, is in a key that I find quite comfortable, and I'm a mezzo-soprano. So it follows, to me at least, that sung an octave lower it would be the right key for a baritone.
It may be that you were working with a high-voice transposition of the song. I've found that the original key of many of Grieg's songs are actually "medium high", but that there are also a lot of soprano transpositions out there (no doubt because sopranos are so common they drive the market :) ).
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