Selected Works
By Joel Friedman
On 12, Feb 2017 | In Music in the Hall Music in the Club | By Joel Friedman
Continuance
Continuance (Poem by Anonymous, taken from the Findern Manuscript)
Instrumentation: Mezzo-soprano and tenor viol
New! Edition for Mezzo-soprano and Cello!
Duration: 4:30
A setting of an anonymous poem taken from the Findern Manuscript, a collection of 14th-century secular love poetry compiled in England in the late 15th century. It is generally thought that many of the poems in the Findern MS were written by women.
Excerpt 1: Audio forthcoming! ModernMedieval (Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Weinfield, tenor viol)
Excerpt 2: Audio forthcoming! ModernMedieval (Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Weinfield, tenor viol)
Commission: ModernMedieval (Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Weinfield, tenor viol).
Premiere: 2.4.17, Spectrum NYC, New York. Other performance: 2.11.17, New York Public Library, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York.
The score is available through Grey Bird Music
Perusal score forthcoming
Perusal score (Mezzo-soprano & Cello edition)
You can purchase a 8.5×10″ PDF copy of the score below: