Three Songs, by Frank Bridge
Transcribed parts for Clarinet by C. A. Vater (originally for viola)
Alternative Parts for A-Clarinet or B-flat-Clarinet (no score), PDF $8.99
Frank Bridge composed his Three Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano in 1906-1907, setting to music one poem each by Matthew Arnold (Far, far from each other), Heinrich Heine (Where is it that our soul doth go?), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (Music when soft voices die). Both the poetry and the music are richly romantic, addressing with high emotion the various stages of grief experienced over the loss of a loved one. Bridge is an accessible post-romantic composer who should be better known. We at Noteworthy Sheet Music thought his Three Songs would work equally well with clarinet substituting for the original viola, thereby creating a new opportunity for its performance by the appealing ensemble of voice, clarinet and piano. We prepared transcribed parts for both A-clarinet and B-flat-clarinet, so players can choose which instrument they prefer for each of the three movements. Our edition includes both of the clarinet part options but no score, as a good quality PDF of the Bridge score for voice, viola and piano is available as a free download from imslp.org and our clarinet parts work well with the original score’s piano and voice lines.
A-Clarinet part, 4 pages; B-flat-Clarinet part, 4 pages; Total, 14 pages.
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