Stephen Collins Foster
Beautiful Dreamer
Stephen Collins Foster
Beautiful Dreamer
- Instrumentation Women's Choir (SSA) and Piano
- Composer Stephen Collins Foster
- Editor David Dusing
- Edition Piano Score
- Publisher Theodore Presser Company
- Order no. PRES392-02588
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Description:
Because Stephen Foster made a conscious decision to write 'people's music', many historians and critics have labeled him a musician of limited talent with no more than a natural gift for memorable tunes. In reality, he had a sound musical training. Beautiful Dreamer, written near the end of his life, was an example of his familiarity with the Italian school of song: graceful melodic lines, expressive appoggiaturas, and arpeggiated and strummed instruments. This arrangement, for SSA chorus and keyboard, remains faithful to that style.