To a Poor Old Woman

1996 | soprano/piano

Poem by William Carlos Williams.

Song 1 of Plums

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• 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.