Name: Mannsbarn by Knut Rygnestad Piano & Vocal Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Knut Olav Rygnestad
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Mannsbarn
by Knut Rygnestad Piano & Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Mannsbarn

Artist Knut Rygnestad

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Knut Rygnestad Guðfinna Jónsdóttir

Also Performed By Helga Ragnars

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 5

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Knut Olav Rygnestad

Level 5

Product ID 1345590

Genre Folk Classical Contemporary

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

"Mannsbarn" (Human Child) is about a man searching for a way past what seems to be an endless stone wall. This reflects a metaphorical search for meaning in life. He fails and collapses in despair, as a star falls from the night sky.

Guðfinna Jónsdóttir (18991946) from Hömrum was an organist and poet who lived a quiet and isolated life in Northern Iceland. She wrote beautiful poems about her life, filled with with tragedies, death and unrequited love. In her own time her work wasn't well known outside of her hometown, and today she is more or less forgotten.

In collaboration with the singer Helga Ragnarsdóttir, the composer Knut Rygnestad has set several of her poems to music for voice and piano, with the aim of making them better known in Iceland and throughout the world. The project received funding from the Norwegian Arts Council and Hljóðritasjóður Rannís, and an album of nine recorded songs, "Ótal stjarna hröp", was released in 2023.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.