The Balloon Rises
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory ZavrackySong Title | The Balloon Rises (Search) |
Composer(s): | Dominick Argento |
Author(s): | Nils Strindberg (Argento, Dominick) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Adventures; Anna; Balloons; Blackbirds; Cheers; Circling; Dear; Diaries; Distance; Expeditions; Exploring; Flying; Fog; Friends; Good Night; Home; Hurrah; Journeys; Knives; Mists; Omens; Parents; Part of a Song Cycle; Peculiar; Prose; Questioning; Resting; Rising; Serious; Silent; Still; Success; Sun; Sweden; Swedish; Voices; Wonderful; Wondering; Writing |
First Line | Dearest Anna (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:15 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1982 (Search) |
Larger Work | The Andrée Expedition (Search) |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Argento-Dominick-The-Andree-Expedition-baritone-piano/2004779 |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/4MRNKzqOkVO2F2RhUXlVUi?si=0RWFwlbNRAiCMhbzebwWtA |
Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
Catalog Designation | The Andrée Expedition, Part One: In the Air, no. 2 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone |
Range: | C3 - F#4 (Search) |
Original Key | D major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Jeanne Shepard (Search) |
Premiered By | Håkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search) |
Commissioned By | The Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search) |
Notes | https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | Boosey and Hawkes (Search) |
Sources Cited | A performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andrée Expedition, a dissertation by Michael Andrew Paxson. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1261075936&disposition=inline (Search) |
Contributor | JEM (Search) |