Anna's Birthday
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky| Song Title | Anna's Birthday (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Dominick Argento |
| Author(s): | Nils Strindberg (Argento, Dominick) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Lover; Adventures; Anna; Autumn; Beloved; Birthday; Chatting; Congratulating; Delirious; Despair; Diaries; Dying; Expeditions; Exploring; Fearing; Hardships; Healthy; Home; Journeys; Longing; Part of a Song Cycle; Prose; Sledges; Stopping; Strange; Sweden; Swedish; Tired; Torturing; Winter; Wishing; Writing; Yearning |
| First Line | We have just stopped for the day (Search) |
| Average Duration | 5:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1982 (Search) |
| Larger Work | The Andrée Expedition (Search) |
| Musical Form | ABAB (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/524g0GnPHjItwF7FUMxwKT?si=zNkdm-NPQ5utscNT75hZwA |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | The Andrée Expedition, Part Two: On the Ice, no. 11 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone |
| Range: | Bb2 - Gb4 (Search) |
| Original Key | Cb 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) |