Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Source: 12 Songs for the Mezzo-Soprano and Contralto Voice
Date of Composition: c. 1924
Publication: Home Songs 21 Kirkley Cliff Rd. Lowestoft; not available for performance
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderately Difficult
Subject: A painful winter day
Range: F#4 – A5
Tessitura: A4 – F#5
Tempo: not indicated; 6/8
Duration: 01:10
Vocal Characteristics: High lying phrases; wordy; sixteenth-note melismatic passages; alternate lower pitches for some of the high phrases
Piano Difficulty Level: Moderate
Accompaniment Characteristics: Many shifts of clef between hands; moving independent voices within the hand that are mostly scalar