Clair de lune

I wrote these songs in a graduate seminar taught by Dr. Pamela Madsen called The Art of Song. We explored the techniques of text setting in multiple languages, and I took on the extra challenge of trying to write for piano and guitar in a way that made them complement one another without competing with each other. Each song, all in different languages, expresses a different emotion while moongazing: mournful nostalgia, false happiness, and innocent excitement. I love how one subject can inspire such differing poetry. The moon is a mirror to the soul; whatever you see in it is what you find in yourself.