| Song Title | Landscape I: From the Train (Search)
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| Composer(s): | Libby Larsen |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Author(s): | Willa Cather |
| Author Underrepresented Group | Woman; LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Afternoon; Antonia; Blazing; Blustery; Boyhood; Boys; Buried; Burning; Change; Childhood; Children; Fall; Fire; Longing; Metaphor: Trains as Passing Time; Nostalgia; Past; Prairies; Seasons; Sky; Snow; Spring; Summer; Talking; Towns; Trains; Traveling; Weather; Wheat; Windy; Winter; Wishing |
| First Line | We were talking about what is was like to be a child in a little prairie town (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
2000 (Search) |
| Larger Work | My Ántonia (Search) |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/my-ntonia-9780193867215?cc=us&lang=en&#
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| Audio Source |
https://libbylarsen.com/works/my-antonia
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| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano or Tenor |
| Range: | E3 - Ab4 (Search) |
| Original Key | Db Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | Jane Dressler, soprano, and Linda Jones, piano (Search) |
| Commissioned By | Jane Dressler (Search) |
| Notes | The narrator of the song cycle, Jim Burden, is a forty year-old man aboard a train taking him away from the town in which he grew up. He has just seen his childhood friend, Ántonia, for the first time in twenty years. He longs to recapture his youth on the prairie. (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Oxford University Press (Search) |
| Sources Cited | "Libby Larsen's My Ántonia: The Song Cycle and the Tonal Landscape of the Prairie," a dissertation by Gregory Zavracky, https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/12254.
"A Guide to Libby Larsen's My Ántonia," Gregory Zavracky, Journal of Singing, https://www.nats. (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , Gregory Zavracky (Search)
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| Contributor Affiliation | University of Connecticut, Brown University (Search) |
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