Theodore Presser Three Chaucer Songs (1926) - Bennett - Soprano Voice/Piano
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Description
- Composer/Author: BENNETT, ROBERT RUSSELL
- Instrumentation: VOICE SOPRANO
- Model # 491-00670
Music: Robert Russell Bennett
Publisher: Maurice River Press
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Soprano Voice, Piano Reduction
For the music director of His Majesty's Theatre in London, Bennett chose to set the three poems of "Merciless Beauty", ascribed to Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Father of English Literature" of "Canterbury Tales" fame. Bennett intended the work "for women's voice or voices" with string quartet. Bennett concurrently prepared this voice and piano version.
Duration: 7:16

