{"id":11357,"date":"2022-11-09T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=11357"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:15:02","slug":"the-cough-drop-song","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/shop\/product\/the-cough-drop-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cough Drop Song (for singing pianist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Cough Drop Song \u2013<\/strong> is a piece that expresses the myriad emotions caused by the crinkling of cough drop wrappers during concerts. It was composed for and premiered by Zachary Ridgway, singing and playing at the piano. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instrumentation:<\/strong><br \/>\nBass Voice, F#2-C4 range*<br \/>\nPiano<br \/>\n<em>*if transposition is requested, please contact the composer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cough Drop Song \u2013 Lyrics<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a song about audience participation.<br \/>\nA pet peeve, a cardinal sin?<br \/>\nAffliction of the cultured.<br \/>\nMaybe it\u2019s worse than cell phones going off during a slow movement.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s begin.<br \/>\nI am dressed to a tee and come out for a bow.<br \/>\nI have practiced hundreds of hours\u2026<br \/>\nThe bench height is right.<br \/>\nThe exposition goes great.<br \/>\nSuddenly I hear it start and then it\u2019s too late:<br \/>\nA cough drop wrapper!<br \/>\nYou can blow your nose during my arpeggios.<br \/>\nYou can rummage in your purse.<br \/>\nBut, please, please DON\u2019T unleash this aural curse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Refrain:<\/em><br \/>\nGet out another cough drop.<br \/>\nCrinkle that wrapper one more time.<br \/>\nUnwrap it painfully slowly \u2013<br \/>\nreally, that\u2019s just fine.<br \/>\nGet out another cough drop.<br \/>\nBring enough to share.<br \/>\nYour friends will feel left out;<br \/>\nNow THAT would not be fair.<\/p>\n<p>I have practiced not to get distracted.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t need silence while I play.<br \/>\nThe audience and I could listen to your lozenges all day.<\/p>\n<p>-Refrain-<\/p>\n<p>Live performance is so tricky, as timing is everythin\u2019.<br \/>\nYou resist until the music becomes pianissimo,\u00a0then the crinkling can begin!<br \/>\nCrinkle, crackle, ripple, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease.<\/p>\n<p>-Refrain-<\/p>\n<p>In avoiding a cough\u00a0you make people scoff.<br \/>\nFew things are worse than this cure.<br \/>\nMaybe next time if you truly care,\u00a0bring your cough drops unwrapped, in a tupperware?!<br \/>\nYou\u2019re right.<br \/>\nConcert hall acoustics are perfect for the delicate sound\u00a0of crinkling plastic.<\/p>\n<p>-Refrain-<\/p>\n<p>Words &amp; Music (c) 2014 by Yvonne Freckmann<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Cough Drop Song<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(2014), for singing pianist (PDF)<br \/>\nDuration: c. 5:30 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Please note: Purchasing this item will yield 1 digital download\u00a0of the score PDF in US-Letter size.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the premiere by Zachary Ridgway here:<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CoughDropSong_audio_only.m4a\"][\/audio]","protected":false},"featured_media":11392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[605311385,605311428,605311427,605311387,605311426,605311388],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11357","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-advanced","7":"product_cat-bass-voice","8":"product_cat-comedic","9":"product_cat-piano","10":"product_cat-singing-pianist","11":"product_cat-voice","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"downloadable","16":"virtual","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yvonnefreckmann.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}