A Walt Whitman Songbook: A Song of the Rolling Earth for Voice and Piano

A Walt Whitman Songbook contains 10 new musical works by Vermont based composer Craig Pallett. This songbook was created for Voice and Piano. It primarily explores Whitman’s work called , from the 1891-92 edition of . The composer has not altered the natural flow of the text. Due to the length of he has broken the text into 7 different songs. The composer has named these, primarily to help the public and musicians reference each song. Though it can be presented as a full suite, performance time is 35 minutes, each song can stand on it’s own as an individual work. Besides the songbook includes 3 other Whitman works from , . From the Composers Notes.