HOIBY, Lee 1926-2011

There Came a Wind Like a Bugle. Song for voice and piano. Autograph musical manuscript dated Jan 13, 10, 12, 11, [19]87. Text by Emily Dickinson.

Folio. Unbound. 6 pp. Notated in pencil on 16-stave music paper. A working manuscript. Preliminary sketches.

Together with:
- Autograph musical manuscript dated Jan 16, 17, 18, [19]87. Folio. Unbound. 7 pp. Notated on pencil on 16-stave music paper. A working manuscript. Together with four sets of photographic copies of the autograph manuscript fair copies with occasional autograph annotations, corrections, etc., in red, blue, and lead pencil.

"As a composer Hoiby was a modern Romantic from the lineage of Barber and Menotti. The influence of the former is evident in his warm lyricism, while that of the latter is found in a propensity for light, genial humour. Though much of his music is characterized by a disarming diatonic simplicity, his ambitious works tend towards greater harmonic and textural complexity. Interest in his music has centred chiefly around his operatic, choral and vocal works, which seem to stimulate his most deeply felt efforts. Some of these works – for example Summer and Smoke, Galileo Galilei and The Tempest – achieve an eloquence comparable to the later works of Barber. With greater critical acceptance of more conservative musical styles from the early 1980s onwards, Hoiby’s music has been performed and recorded with increasing frequency." Richard Jackson and Walter G. Simmons in Grove Music Online.

Item #31130

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