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Opus 32

== History ==
*Song cycle on texts by [http://schrijversgewijs.be/schrijvers/coole-marcel Marcel Coole].
*Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948.
*First performance in January<ref>27? De Roeck p.30.</ref> 1949 at the Vlaamse Club in Brussels by Frans Mertens (tenor) and Frieda Pey (piano).<ref>CeBeDeM - lijst werken: ''Oeuvres de Victor Legley'', p.1. More details are not known.</ref>

== Music ==
*instrumentation: tenor<ref>PA doesn't specify the voice type. PA shows that some of the songs have been transposed for a performance, Legley must have known about, see the ''transposition notes'' at the separate songs.</ref> and piano
*duration: 18'

=== Parts ===
*I. Thans is het tijd dat ik mij ga bezinnen [Now it is time for me to reflect]
**tempo: Moderato, senza rigore, ma energico
*II. Nimmer heb ik kunnen kiezen [I've never could choose]
**tempo: Andantino
**time signature: '''3/4'''
*III. Nu zoek ik mijn weg door een donker bosch [Now I search my way through a dark wood]<ref name="een">Transposition note in PA: "(2t)"</ref>
**tempo: Allegro moderato
**time signature: '''5/4'''
*IV. Nu dat ik beheerschen zal mijn gebaren en mijn woorden [Now I will control my gestures and my words]<ref name="een" />
**tempo: Andante ma molto energico
**time signature: '''3/2'''
*V. Ik ben een nieuw schip dat zich van de kade heeft losgerukt [I am a new ship that has torn itself loose from the quay]<ref>Transposition note in PA: "(1 1/2t)"</ref>
**tempo: Allegro
**time signature: '''3/4'''
*VI. Dagen, jaren, eeuwen, heb ik gezwegen [Days, years, centuries, I've kept silent]<ref>Transposition note in PA: "t)" (photocopied incompletely)</ref>
**tempo: Allegro non troppo ma molto deciso
**time signature: '''2/4'''
*VII. Nu sta ik op den blanken berg van licht [Now I stand on the white hill]<ref name="een" />
**tempo: Allegro molto energico
**time signature: '''4/4'''
*VIII. Thans versta ik dieper de zin der dingen [Now I understand more profoundly the sense of things]<ref name="een" />
**tempo: Andantino espressivo<ref>[[Tessely/en|Tessely]] (p.140) mistakenly gives ''Andante espressivo''.</ref>
**time signature: '''4/4'''
*IX. Blauw zit achter de wolken, sneeuw achter de zon [Blue is behind the clouds, snow behind the sun]<ref name="een" />
**tempo: Allegretto grazioso
**time signature: '''3/4'''
*X. Nu verdwijnen de bergen en de dalen [Now the hills en dales disappear]<ref name="een" />
**tempo: (8th note) poco plus lent que (8th note) de n°9
**time signature: '''6/8'''

== Sources ==
*photocopy of the autograph (PA): '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', Legley archives

==Notes==
<references />

[[Category:Thematic Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1947/en]][[Category:1948/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and piano]][[Category:Music for piano]][[Category:Songs]]

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 *Song cycle on texts by [http://schrijversgewijs.be/schrijvers/coole-marcel Marcel Coole].
 *Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948.
-*First performance in January<ref>27? De Roeck p.30.</ref> 1949 at the Vlaamse Club in Brussels by Frans Mertens (tenor) and Frieda Pey (piano).<ref>CeBeDeM - lijst werken: ''Oeuvres de Victor Legley'', p.1. More details are not known.</ref>
+*The first performance of the work was given at the ''Vlaamse Club'' in Brussels on 27 January 1949 by Frans Mertens and Frieda Pey.<ref>See:
 == Music ==
-*instrumentation: tenor<ref>PA doesn't specify the voice type. PA shows that some of the songs have been transposed for a performance, Legley must have known about, see the ''transposition notes'' at the separate songs.</ref> and piano
+*instrumentation: tenor<ref>PA does not specify the voice type. PA shows that some of the songs have been transposed for a performance for which Legley was consulted, see the ''transposition notes'' to the separate songs.</ref> and piano
 *duration: 18'
@@ Line 13: / Line 16: @@
 *I. Thans is het tijd dat ik mij ga bezinnen [Now it is time for me to reflect]
 **tempo: Moderato, senza rigore, ma energico
-*II. Nimmer heb ik kunnen kiezen [I've never could choose]
+*II. Nimmer heb ik kunnen kiezen [Never have I been able to choose]
 **tempo: Andantino
 **time signature: '''3/4'''
-*III. Nu zoek ik mijn weg door een donker bosch [Now I search my way through a dark wood]<ref name="een">Transposition note in PA: "(2t)"</ref>
+*III. Nu zoek ik mijn weg door een donker bosch Now I seek my way through a dark wood<ref name="een">Transposition note in PA: ''(2t)''.</ref>
 **tempo: Allegro moderato
 **time signature: '''5/4'''
-*IV. Nu dat ik beheerschen zal mijn gebaren en mijn woorden [Now I will control my gestures and my words]<ref name="een" />
+*IV. Nu dat ik beheerschen zal mijn gebaren en mijn woorden [Now that I will control my gestures and my words]<ref name="een"/>
 **tempo: Andante ma molto energico
 **time signature: '''3/2'''
-*V. Ik ben een nieuw schip dat zich van de kade heeft losgerukt [I am a new ship that has torn itself loose from the quay]<ref>Transposition note in PA: "(1 1/2t)"</ref>
+*V. Ik ben een nieuw schip dat zich van de kade heeft losgerukt [I am a new ship that has torn itself away from the quay]<ref>Transposition note in PA: ''(1 1/2t)''.</ref>
 **tempo: Allegro
 **time signature: '''3/4'''
-*VI. Dagen, jaren, eeuwen, heb ik gezwegen [Days, years, centuries, I've kept silent]<ref>Transposition note in PA: "t)" (photocopied incompletely)</ref>
+*VI. Dagen, jaren, eeuwen, heb ik gezwegen [Days, years, centuries, have I been silent]<ref>Transposition note in PA: ''t)'' (photocopied incompletely)</ref>
 **tempo: Allegro non troppo ma molto deciso
 **time signature: '''2/4'''
-*VII. Nu sta ik op den blanken berg van licht [Now I stand on the white hill]<ref name="een" />
+*VII. Nu sta ik op den blanken berg van licht [Now I stand on the white mountain of light]<ref name="een"/>
 **tempo: Allegro molto energico
 **time signature: '''4/4'''
-*VIII. Thans versta ik dieper de zin der dingen [Now I understand more profoundly the sense of things]<ref name="een" />
+*VIII. Thans versta ik dieper de zin der dingen [Now I understand more profoundly the meaning of things]<ref name="een"/>
-**tempo: Andantino espressivo<ref>[[Tessely/en|Tessely]] (p.140) mistakenly gives ''Andante espressivo''.</ref>
+**tempo: Andantino espressivo<ref>[[Tessely/en|Tessely]] (p.140) erroneously gives ''Andante espressivo''.</ref>
 **time signature: '''4/4'''
-*IX. Blauw zit achter de wolken, sneeuw achter de zon [Blue is behind the clouds, snow behind the sun]<ref name="een" />
+*IX. Blauw zit achter de wolken, sneeuw achter de zon [Blue is behind the clouds, snow behind the sun]<ref name="een"/>
 **tempo: Allegretto grazioso
 **time signature: '''3/4'''
-*X. Nu verdwijnen de bergen en de dalen [Now the hills en dales disappear]<ref name="een" />
+*X. Nu verdwijnen de bergen en de dalen [Now the mountains and valleys disappear]<ref name="een" />
 **tempo: (8th note) poco  plus lent que (8th note) de n°9
 **time signature: '''6/8'''
 == Sources ==
-*photocopy of the autograph (PA): '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', Legley archives
+*photocopy 1 of autograph: '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', shelf number [https://catalog.b-bc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=103108 '''CBD-B-0036-(00246)''']<ref>According to [[De Roeck/en|De Roeck]] (p.301), the autograph would have been in the archive that Legley's son kept. However, in 2011 that archive was donated to the library of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where this work is not present. Perhaps this manuscript has remained in the Legley family after all.</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references />
-[[Category:Thematic Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1947/en]][[Category:1948/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and piano]][[Category:Music for piano]][[Category:Songs]]
+[[Category:Oeuvre Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1947/en]][[Category:1948/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and piano]][[Category:Music for piano]][[Category:Songs]]

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Koenraad at 10:07, 20 September 2021

Koenraad: Created page with "Opus 32 == History == *Song cycle on texts by [http://schrijversgewijs.be/schrijvers/coole-marcel Marcel Coole]. *Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948...."

Koenraad: Created page with "Opus 32 == History == Song cycle on texts by [http://schrijversgewijs.be/schrijvers/coole-marcel Marcel Coole]. Legley composed these songs between May 1947 en April 1948...."