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Invitation to Love
SM-000186522
| Composer | Gary Nash |
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Lyricist  | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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| Publisher | Gary Nash |
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| Genre |
Classical / Song
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| Instrumentation |
Piano, Tenor |
| Scored for | Duo |
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| Type of score | Piano-vocal score |
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| Key |
E flat major |
| Duration |
4'0" |
| Language | English |
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| Difficulty |
Advanced |
| Year of composition |
2005 |
| Description |
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Gary Powell Nash’s setting for Invitation to Love features a through composed form where phrase lengths and structural proportions are derived from those displayed in the text. The melodic and motivic nucleus for this song originates from Nash listening to someone reciting the text, notating the occurring rhythmic patterns and composing melodies supported by these rhythms. The first and final stanzas end with the phrase “and you are welcome, welcome” and he uses similar melodic settings both times as a way of articulating the sections and providing structural closure to each section as well as unity and continuity within the composition.
Invitation to Love is a fast tempo, bright, lively and energetic song with melodies, harmonies and rhythms based on pop, jazz, gospel and rhythm and blues idioms. The harmonies include major and minor seventh, ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chords. Invitation to Love uses an E-flat major modality, occasionally going into E-flat minor as well as keys closely related to both E-flat major and minor. |
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