Penny for a Song for Soprano and Piano 鋼琴

這首曲子為女高音和鋼琴配樂。一便士換一首歌》寫於 1981 年秋，由英國藝術委員會出資，為佩妮-普萊斯-鐘斯和菲力浦-馬丁創作。 該作品由十首歌組成，前奏為鋼琴曲，在第六和第七首之間以及最後一首歌之前再次出現。所有詩歌都是微型詩；其中一些是俳句，這是一種日本禪宗詩歌形式，它們都具有俳句的一些共同特點，如生動的意象、季節性或自然性以及典故性的簡短。 這些詩歌篇幅雖小，卻能產生超越自身的共鳴。 禪宗藝術家喜歡玩弄空間：他們通過幾筆勾勒出一個細節豐富的世界；他們通過幾行字在近乎空白的背景上的寓意，暗示出無限擴展的空間。 我在《一分錢換一首歌》的音樂創作中也採用了這種方法。 這些歌曲稍縱即逝，瞬息萬變；它們是一個世界的回聲，只要我們駐足聆聽，這個世界始終存在

作曲家: Nicola Lefanu
出版社: Novello
原文簡介:
This piece is scored for Soprano and Piano. A Penny for a Song was written in Autumn 1981 for Penny Price Jones and Philip Martin, who commissioned it with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It consists of ten songs, prefaced by a piano piece, which acts as a refrain, heard again between Nos. 6 and 7, and before the last song. All the texts are miniatures; some are haiku, a Japanese Zen poetic form, and they all have in common a number of Haiku characteristics, such as vivid imagery, seasonal or natural, and allusive brevity. The poems are small, but they have a resonance extending far beyond themselves. Zen artists love to play with space: through a few brush strokes they conjure up a world of detail; they suggest infinitely expanding space through the implications of a few lines on a nearly empty background. This has been my approach in the music of A Penny for a Song. The songs are fleeting, momentary; they are echoes of a world that is always there if we stop to listen for it.