Solitary Hotel
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory ZavrackySong Title | Solitary Hotel (Search) |
Composer(s): | Samuel Barber |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | James Joyce |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Autumn; Corners; Dark; Descriptions; Entering; Fire; Following; Holding; Hotels; Hurrying; Landscapes; Men; Mountains; Nature; Observing; Paper; Part of a Song Cycle; Passes; Prose; Queens; Reading; Recounting; Restlessness; Seizing; Sitting; Sloping; Solitary; Solitude; Standing; Stories; Tangos; Thinking; Twilight; Upright; Vignette; Watching; Wheeling; Windows; Women; Wondering; Writing; Youth |
First Line | Solitary hotel in mountain pass. (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1968 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=8998 |
Larger Work | Despite and Still (Search) |
Musical Form | Ternary (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Modernism (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.action?itemid=50490045 |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/3vn2P0UWeOeTbGOwuf9qK5 |
Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
Catalog Designation | Op. 41 no. 4 (Search) |
Range: | C4 - F4 (Search) |
Original Key | E minor (Search) |
Dedicated To | Leontyne Price (Search) |
Premiered By | Leontyne Price; David Garvey (Search) |
Notes | Text from the Ithaca section (chapter 17) of Ulysses. It is a constructed scene by one of the book's leading characters, Stephen Daedelus, during a long night out. The full text can be accessed here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | G. Schirmer, "Samuel Barber: 65 Songs" (Search) |
Sources Cited | Heyman, B. (2012). Samuel Barber : A thematic catalogue of the complete works. New York: Oxford University Press. (Search) |