Hallucinations

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Song TitleHallucinations (Search)
Composer(s):Dominick Argento
Author(s):Salomon August Andrée (Argento, Dominick)
Keyword(s) & Features: Adventures; Beautiful; Birds; Black; Canals; Day; Delirious; Diaries; Divine; Diving; Expeditions; Exploring; Fire; Flames; Flying; Fountains; Hallucinating; Hallucinations; Horizon; Ice; Journeys; Landscapes; Magnificent; Midnight; Observing; Part of a Song Cycle; Prose; Silent; Snow; Spirits; Stairs; Sun; Sweden; Swedish; Venetian; Water; Writing
First LineThe day has been extremely beautiful (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1982 (Search)
Larger WorkThe Andrée Expedition (Search)
Musical FormABAB (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Argento-Dominick-The-Andree-Expedition-baritone-piano/2004779
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/3DCbBv6iJHVY8jlGxtAeGJ?si=QuhXm8CmQCqv6L-9R6nFMQ
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationThe Andrée Expedition, Part Two: On the Ice, no. 10 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerBaritone
Range: C#3 - G4 (Search)
Original KeyF# minor (Search)
Dedicated ToJeanne Shepard (Search)
Premiered ByHåkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search)
Commissioned ByThe Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search)
Noteshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceBoosey and Hawkes (Search)
Sources CitedA 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)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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