今はというと５月のコンサートに向けてコーラスの曲を書いています。
歌詞を載せてみます。
GLIDING O'ER ALL
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
GLIDING o'er all, through all,
Through Nature, Time, and Space,
As a ship on the waters advancing,
The voyage of the soul--- not life alone,
Death, many deaths I'll sing.
器楽曲に比べると、歌の方がやはり瞬発力で書くようなところがあって、ずいぶん作曲の行程も違うなあと感じます。この曲で約１分半なので、もう一曲同じ詩人の詩で書けたらと思っています。
Although it is almost April, still it is cold these days. But I feel the morning light and its atmosphere is not the one of winter anymore. Now I am writing a choral piece for the May concert. The words are up above. I found that the process of writing music is really different between writing a song and writing an instrumental music. I feel writing a song is more about how to make the words into music than how to make melodies. This piece is just about 1 and half minutes long, so I am going to write one more short one.