2 C Score ROLF JACOBSEN Commissioned by The Schubert Club for Jennifer Swanson, soprano NATTSANGER VI. Nattmusikk (Nightmusic) ABBIE BETINIS Soprano Slowly (ca.40) Glittering (0) Stjern Stars - e - bild - en - e skal for - shall turn and the night - sky Clarinet (A) Piano as a distant parade sub p and-re sig, si - er sten - - - en, Karls - vog - re - ar - range, the stone says, The Big Dip - nens per's stang arm skal shall () Copyright Abbie Betinis, February 2008
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VI. Nattmusikk / Abbie Betinis 29 1 mig. me. Som Just as fon the - te - nens glit - ren - de støv spring-er foun - tain's glit - ter - ing dust springs 12 12 12 15 sub ad lib. opp og fal - ler ned i sig up and falls a - gain in - to it - 7 (voice ad lib.) n (voice ad lib.) Sost.
0 VI. Nattmusikk / Abbie Betinis 17 a tempo rit. Slower, recitative selv, self, kom-mer al - le mi - ne dag - er in - ne Some-how all my days are com - ing from in - a tempo rit. Slower, recitative a tempo rit. Slower, recitative 19 fra side mig my - selv, self, ad lib. 21 målt doled out til i in en a skål bowl av of sten. stone.
VI. Nattmusikk / Abbie Betinis 1 24 Glittering (0) Det There er is et a ro calm - lig lys ov -er gam - - ing light o - ver a - le ged trær. trees, De They let lar the 2 vind wind - en lø - pe gjen -nem lø - flow through their love - ly vet leaves
2 VI. Nattmusikk / Abbie Betinis 28 og and stjern stars - e -ne gå a - gain pass - ing høyt high i in n una corda 2 Slowly (ca.40) royally ma their - - - je - - - ste - tis - ke ma - - - jes - tic pa - tog. rade. (as a distant parade)
Also by Abbie Betinis... Chamber Music: Four Carols of Alfred Burt (medley) flute, harp Abbie Betinis Music Co. (Abbie is the grand-niece of famed Christmas carol composer Alfred Burt) AB-09-00 Clan of the Lichens flute, piano Abbie Betinis Music Co. I. All Things Live AB-02-01 II. Night and the Little Failures III. The Prayer Wind IV.The Comet: a tale for children (and taller ones) V. The Clan of the Lichens Tadasana clarinet, piano manuscript Vocal Chamber Music: Moonlight high voice, cello manuscript Text: Suzanne Asher My Heart is Longing to Praise My Savior high voice, cello, piano Graphite Publishing Text: Princess Eugenie of Sweden (in English) GP - B00 Nattsanger (Nightsongs): song cycle high voice, clarinet, piano Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: Rolf Jacobsen (in Norwegian) AB-055-02 Prologue medium voice, bassoon manuscript Text: Yevgeny Yevtushenko (in English) Choral Music: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight TTBB, snare drum, piano Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: Vachel Lindsay AB-01-01 Aililiú, ó Íosa (Alleluia, O Jesu) SSA, TTBB, s.a. solos, Gaelic harp, Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: traditional Gaelic and Latin viola, bodhrán AB-0-00 Cedit, Hyems (Be gone, winter!) SATB div. (or SSAA div.), flute G. Schirmer Text: Prudentius (in Latin) Cat. No. 5048492 From Behind the Caravan SSAA div., s.a. solos, viola or cello, Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: Hâfez (in Persian) Persian hand drums, opt l Oud AB-049-02 In the Bleak Midwinter, arr. SATB, s. a. solos, piano Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: Christina Rossetti AB-047-01 Remember, O Thou Man (arr.) SATB div., cello, harp Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: Thomas Ravenscroft AB-045-00 To the Evening Star SATB div., flute Abbie Betinis Music Co. Text: William Blake AB-040-01 Reviewed as audacious edgy and thrilling, the music of Abbie Betinis (b. 1980) is being performed increasingly in the United States and abroad, and has won awards from the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota Music Educators Association, among others. A 2009 McKnight Artist Fellow, Abbie has fulfilled more than 40 commissions for new music from organizations including the Dale Warland Singers, Cantus, The Rose Ensemble, and The Schubert Club. Abbie studied composition at St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, France. Her music is published by Fred Bock Music, Graphite Publishing, Kjos, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and now in G. Schirmer s Dale Warland Series, but she primarily publishes with her own Abbie Betinis Music Co., LLC. Since 2005, Abbie has been Composer-in-Residence for The Schubert Club, the first arts organization in Minnesota. She has also held residencies with The Rose Ensemble and with The Singers Minnesota Choral Artists, where she is proud to sing in the second alto section. A three time cancer survivor, she lives in Saint Paul. Abbie Betinis Music Co. web: www.abbiebetinis.com phone: 12-590-998 email: abbie@abbiebetinis.com