Penny for a Song for Soprano and Piano 钢琴

这首曲子为女高音和钢琴配乐。一便士换一首歌》写于 1981 年秋，由英国艺术委员会出资，为佩妮-普莱斯-琼斯和菲利普-马丁创作。 该作品由十首歌组成，前奏为钢琴曲，在第六和第七首之间以及最后一首歌之前再次出现。所有诗歌都是微型诗；其中一些是俳句，这是一种日本禅宗诗歌形式，它们都具有俳句的一些共同特点，如生动的意象、季节性或自然性以及典故性的简短。 这些诗歌篇幅虽小，却能产生超越自身的共鸣。 禅宗艺术家喜欢玩弄空间：他们通过几笔勾勒出一个细节丰富的世界；他们通过几行字在近乎空白的背景上的寓意，暗示出无限扩展的空间。 我在《一分钱换一首歌》的音乐创作中也采用了这种方法。 这些歌曲稍纵即逝，瞬息万变；它们是一个世界的回声，只要我们驻足聆听，这个世界始终存在

作曲家: Nicola Lefanu
出版社: Novello
原文简介:
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.