<p>A Walt Whitman Songbook contains 10 new musical works by Vermont based composer Craig Pallett. This songbook was created for Voice and Piano. It primarily explores Whitman&rsquo;s work called <em>A Song of the Rolling Earth</em> from the 1891-92 edition of<em> Leaves of Grass</em>. The composer has not altered the natural flow of the text.&nbsp; Due to the length of <em>A Song of the Rolling Earth</em> he has broken the text into 7 different songs. The composer has named these <em>The Earths&rsquo;s Words Amelioration Never Fail Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Whoever You Are! I Swear and Tones of Souls</em> primarily to help the public and musicians reference each song. Though it can be presented as a full suite performance time is 35 minutes each song can stand on it&rsquo;s own as an individual work.&nbsp;</p><p>Besides <em>A Song of the Rolling Earth</em> the songbook includes 3 other Whitman works from <em>Leaves of Grass</em> <em>Laws for Creations On the Beach at Night Alone and France The 18th Year of these States</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>From the Composers Notes.</p><blockquote><p><em>&ldquo;I chose not to alter Whitman&rsquo;s text in any way. This includes not repeating material or changing the structure of the actual text both of which might make the works more &ldquo;song&ndash;like&rdquo;. I wanted to have a sense of churning piano rhythms and patterns with a folk&ndash;like melody. Whitman&rsquo;s works that I chose are very rhythmically segmented verses many of them flow from one rhythmic structure to another. Sometimes only 2 verses flow in the same fashion and then proceed into different ideas and forms. At times there is a singular verse that has no rhythmic relationship to any other verse in his text.&rdquo;</em></p></blockquote>
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