Blue Mountain Ballads

Blue Mountain Ballads is a song cycle for a voice and piano composed by Paul Bowles in 1946 on poems by Tennessee Williams, who was his friend and mentor. The extended harmonic language of the piano part allows a large degree of freedom in all four songs. The tonality in the music is obscure in parts, but the harmonic language is accessible to an ear of an average audience of classical music and does not require extended listening experience. The meter and tempo varies within each song separately as well as between the songs.^[1] Williams later grouped all the Blue Mountain Ballads poems under that name and published them inside his 1956 book In the Winter of Cities.^[2]^[3]

Songs

"Heavenly Grass" is a piece for a medium voice (B3-E5) and requires much attention to details. The flowing rhythm requires a good ensemble with a pianist. "Lonesome Man" is a piece for a medium voice (Db3-Eb4), preferably male, and it contains blues rhythms and harmonies. "Cabin" is a fairly easy, folk-like song for a medium voice (C#4-C#5). Finally, "Sugar in the Cane" is a piece for medium voices (C4-F#5). It requires many colors in the voice and good acting, as the song is performed from the perspective of a narrator claiming that they are "hot stuff".

References

^ Paul Bowles (1984). Selected Songs. Soundings Press. ISBN 978-9991022567.
^ Williams, Tennessee (1964). In the winter of cities: poems (9th ed.). New York: New Directions. ISBN 0811202224.
^ Poxon, Stephanie. "Blue Mountain Ballads". Song of America. Retrieved 31 October 2024.

External links

Texts of the songs

v t e Paul Bowles
Novels	The Sheltering Sky (1949) Let It Come Down (1952) The Spider's House (1955) Up Above the World (1966)
Short story collections	The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950) A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962) The Time of Friendship (1967) Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977) Midnight Mass (1981)
Short stories	"The Echo" (1946) "A Distant Episode" (1947) "You Are Not I" (1948) "At Paso Rojo" (1948) "The Delicate Prey" (1949) "Pages from Cold Point" (1949) "Doña Faustina" (1950) "Tea on the Mountain" (1950) "A Gift for Kinza" (1951) "The Hours After Noon" (1956) "The Frozen Fields" (1957) "Tapiama" (1958) "The Hyena" (1962) "The Garden" (1964) "Allal" (1977) "You Have Left Your Lotus Pods on the Bus" (1977)
Music	Blue Mountain Ballads (1946) Black Star at the Point of Darkness (1991)
Adaptations	You Are Not I (1981) The Sheltering Sky (1990) Kitty (2016)

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