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Piano/Vocal Score
Courtney Carey’s Four Satirical Songs sets four poems by Thomas Hardy in a sharply drawn cycle for voice and piano. Wry, theatrical, and darkly humorous, the songs explore courtship, social convention, romantic disappointment, and marriage through Hardy’s characteristically unsentimental perspective.
Carey’s settings respond to the poetry with vivid contrasts of mood, pointed rhythms, lyrical passages, and expressive harmonic shifts. The piano serves as an active dramatic partner, illuminating the irony beneath the words and helping define the distinct personality of each scene. Written for accomplished performers, the cycle calls for rhythmic precision, interpretive flexibility, clear diction, and a keen sense of comic timing.
The collection includes:
At Tea
By Her Aunt’s Grave
At the Altar-Rail
In the Nuptial Chamber
Piano/Vocal Score
Courtney Carey’s Four Satirical Songs sets four poems by Thomas Hardy in a sharply drawn cycle for voice and piano. Wry, theatrical, and darkly humorous, the songs explore courtship, social convention, romantic disappointment, and marriage through Hardy’s characteristically unsentimental perspective.
Carey’s settings respond to the poetry with vivid contrasts of mood, pointed rhythms, lyrical passages, and expressive harmonic shifts. The piano serves as an active dramatic partner, illuminating the irony beneath the words and helping define the distinct personality of each scene. Written for accomplished performers, the cycle calls for rhythmic precision, interpretive flexibility, clear diction, and a keen sense of comic timing.
The collection includes:
At Tea
By Her Aunt’s Grave
At the Altar-Rail
In the Nuptial Chamber
