Winter Dream: A Vocalise for Soprano and Piano

Margaret Brouwer

2000

Soprano voice, piano

Dream-like, free and rhapsodic, this vocalise begins with a calm, introspective serenity that develops fairly quickly into a middle section of restlessness and agitation. This quite tonal vocalise grows entirely from the opening phrase using retrograde, inversion, motive and development and harmonic evolution.