Plums

Song cycle: To a Poor Old Woman, I Just Wanted to Say

1996 | soprano/piano

Two settings of William Carlos Williams, about 2 minutes total.

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

To A Poor Old Woman

• The measure numbers starting on p. 3 are incorrect. These will be fixed in the new printed copy.
• m. 11 (incorrectly numbered m. 22), the last note of the piano part should be written enharmonically as an A flat.
• Regarding the line "to the one half sucked out in her hand"..... the line layout in the original poem indicates to me that it is one half of a plum that is "sucked out in her hand." Not a plum that is "half-sucked out in her hand."
• Four measures from the end, on the word "air," there should not be a decrescendo.

This is Just To Say

• m. 12, in the piano part, in the Right Hand, the last note is a B natural.
• The last "mmm" does not occur in the original poem. It is my addition.