John Duke Collection

Publisher: Carl Fischer
For voice and piano

John Duke (1899-1984) was one of the finest composers of art-songs that America has produced. His three settings of poems by Edward Arlington Robinson are among the best known and most often performed songs in the American Art-song repertoire. Paul Sperry has collected all of John Duke's songs transcribed in all the original keys. John Duke's emphasis in his songs is on American poets, melody and a romantic sense of harmony. These are songs written with unusual understanding for the capabilities of the human voice.