Losses - (2103) ![](images/01_Little_Green_Dot.gif)
Carl Sandburg
for medium or low voice and piano
I have love
And a child,
A banjo
And shadows.
(Losses of God,
All will go
And one day
We will hold
Only the shadows.)
1 page, circa 1' 00"
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Carl Sandburg
The text is found in the collection, Chicago Poems (1916). For other settings of Sandburg's poems, click here.
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vocal ranges for medium and low keys
This simple, short setting is made up of augmented triads at the unison and a transposition above of a twelfth. For the inference of the whole tone scale, the chord successions and vocal line are consistently this as well, as the text tells of a known future in sweet and yet foreboding small and enormously important details.
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The score for Losses is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano-vocal score.
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Losses
medium voice
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Losses
low voice
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