Menotti's Poemetti: 12 Pieces for Children

First published in 1937

• Dedicated to Maria Rosa, Menotti's youngest sister

• Menotti's take on an "Album for the Young" -- recalls images of his colourful childhood in Italy

• Romantic in style, but flexible time signatures and expanded harmonic language

• Each piece serves as miniature technical etude

• Groupings of contrasting mood and tempo with complementary key relationships:

• Giga, Lullaby, The Bagpipers

• The Stranger's Dance, Winter Wind, The Manger

• The Shepherd, Nocturne, The Brook

• War Song, The Spinner, Bells at Dawn

-- extracted from notes by Sylvia Watkins Ryan

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