COWBOY SONGS


Movements:
I. Bucking Bronco II. Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly III. Billy the Kid

Instrumentation:
soprano, piano

Text: "Bucking Bronco" by Belle Starr, "Sufi Sam Christian" (Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly) by Robert Creeley, "Billy the Kid" anonymous

Duration: 6:45 minutes

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Composer's Notes:

The Cowboy Songs are three character songs. Two of the texts are drawn from cowboy/girl poetry, “Bucking Bronco” with a text by Belle Starr and “Billy the Kid” with an anonymous text. The third, “Lift me into Heaven Slowly” is the retitled “Sufi Sam Christian” of American poet Robert Creeley.

Libby Larsen
Score Errata:
(ECS Publishing #4255)

"Bucking Bronco":

- m 6, upper system, first 8-note chord: "g-flat, f" should be changed to "g-flat, e-flat"
- m 6, upper system, eighth chord: "c/a-flat" should be changed to "b-flat/g-flat"
- m 7, upper system, first chord: "g-flat, f" should be changed to "g-flat, e-flat"
- m 7, upper system, eighth chord: "c/a-flat" should be changed to "b-flat/g-flat"
- m 11, upper system, first chord: "g-flat, f" should be changed to "g-flat, e-flat"
- m 11, upper system, eighth chord: "c/a-flat" should be changed to "b-flat/g-flat"
- mm 20-22, upper system, sixth chord: "b-flat/e-flat" should be changed to "b-flat/d-flat"
- m 23, upper system, sixth chord: "b-flat/c" should be changed to "b-flat/d-flat"
- m 28, lower system, first half of beat three: the note "a" should be changed to "b-flat." The chord should read "b-flat"/"d-natural."
- m 37, upper system, before fifth 8th note: add mid-measure treble clef
- m 38, upper system, first chord: "g-flat, f" should be changed to "g-flat, e-flat"

"Lift Me into Heaven Slowly"
- m 7, soprano, G's should be natural

"Billy the Kid":
- m 8, piano LH, beat 3: should read G-natural/C-natural going to G-flat/D-natural