Ballade No.6 (Rzewski, Frederic)

		Composition Year 1980 Genre Categories Ballades; For harpsichord; Scores featuring the harpsichord; For 1 player; For piano; Scores featuring the piano

Performances

• Piano Recordings (1)

Piano Recordings

 Complete Performance
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Reccmo (20 November 2011)

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Frederic Rzewski (Piano)

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Frederic Rzewski

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Scores

• Keyboard Scores (1)

Keyboard Scores

 Complete Score
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PDF file, Scanned by Frederic Rzewski
Elaine Fine (29 August 2011)

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Brussels: Sound Pool Music (BMI)
(autograph manuscript)

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General Information

Work Title	Ballade No.6
Alternative Title	The Housewife's Lament

Composer	Rzewski, Frederic
Year/Date of Composition	1980
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	Harpsichord or Piano

Misc. Comments

Composer's comments:

The Housewife's Lament was written in 1980 at the request of the harpsichordist Judith Norell. It is a set of variations on a 19th-century song of the same name with words from the diary of Mrs. Sarah Price:

Life is a toil and love is a trouble,

Beauty will fade and riches will flee;

Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double,

And nothing is as I would wish it to be.

Although the piece was intended for the harpsichord, I find that it works just well when played on the piano. Perhaps the ideal instrument would be an old upright piano of the kind that could be found in middle-class homes across America in the early part of the century.