The Emptiness Where an Ember Lies

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Composed by Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve, formerly known as Phyllis Eve Weiler

This piano solo was composed by me, Eve Adam, when I was a young, stay-at-home mother, known as Phyllis Eve Weiler. It was part of my "Afterglow" suite for piano, which included some optional lyrics I wrote to tie the fourteen titles of the suite together.

Copyright was legally and officially obtained through the United States Library of Congress in 1961, before the days of the Internet. See my "Harmonic Eve's Ancient Pics" site if you're curious about how my name changed later from Phyllis Weiler to Eve Adam. My piano solo presented on the next three pages was copyrighted as #13 within the 14-piece piano suite "Afterglow." You are invited to make copies from your computer and perform the solo for your own pleasure or the enjoyment of others. Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve, formerly known as Phyllis Eve Weiler

My optional lyrics for this piece are short, and are NOT indicated in a separate melody line on a separate staff as they are in the other pieces of the suite that have lyrics. In this piece the lyrics begin with the first note, without any introduction. They are followed by an animated, almost frantic, section too emotional for words. Eventually the beginning melody line returns. My lyrics to this #13 are included mainly as a guide to interpretation. I suggest that you "think" them or sing them while learning the piece, but in a final performance they are definitely optional.

The Emptiness Where An Ember Lies

Afterglow, #13, by Harmonic Eve I feel within my heart an emptiness Where lies an ember burning still. My love is felt as only loneliness Like fever felt as only chill. "Come to me," my heart is constantly Repeating; "Come to me."

Watch the key signature and accidentals carefully and be very aware of the five beats per measure instead of a more usual four. This piece, in C minor, acts as a prelude to the last one in the suite, #14, "Quietly Burning Still."

Each of the following pages has its own URL, and thus should be printed as a complete page, including the identifying title, composer name, and page number. Either portrait or landscape orientation works, and normal 8 1/2" by 11" paper is sufficient, as is the normal black computer ink. The background color will not show on your paper copy as long as you have the standard printer settings.

Click "next page" at the right hand bottom of this page to go to the first of three pages of sheet music. Sheet music pages may load slowly, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. They are photos of the original manuscript. Copies were sent to the Library of Congress in 1961 for copyright protection. The stages through which this notation has gone to get to you are as follows: 1. When I was a young stay-at-home mother, after making a rough draft of the music I composed, I placed each note by hand with a special pen and India Ink on the vellum original of my manuscript. This was in 1961 and the vellum is now so badly yellowed with age it is no longer usable to make copies. The duplication process required light to shine through the translucent pages. Now the original pages have lost their translucent quality. 2. In 1961 several blueprint-type copies were made, which now also have yellowed with age. 3. A Xerox of that blueprint manuscript was made to get rid of the yellow in order to allow greater contrast. 4. The Xerox was cut and divided up into three equal pages which were taped to white background pages. The white background pages were needed in order to correct the loss of the notes on the edges when the pages were scanned by my somewhat unpredictable scanner. 5. Three pages were scanned into my computer and adjusted for image size. 6. Three images were e-mailed from my computer to my webtv address. 7. Three images were placed from the e-mail into my MSN TV Scrapbook. 8. Page Builder by MSN TV was the site building tool used to create this web site. Now the three sheet music pages and this introductory page can be viewed by any computer hooked up to the Internet. This was one of the shorter pieces in my "Afterglow" suite. Longer pieces take longer and involve more work than this one did. Even leaving my home to find a place to make Xerox copies is more difficult now with record high gasoline prices. My "Dabbling in Daydreams" may take some time to get its own web site, since it is quite long. Also, I need to be convinced that anyone wants to hear a piece that does not have any lyrics at all. Eve, 5/3/05

Update: July 24, 2006. "Dabbling in Daydreams" sheet music is now available. The sheet music for #3 of "Afterglow" has now been added. Click the link below to go to its site. Note that BOTH #3 and #13 are piano solos, although several other pieces of the suite do have optional lyrics that may be sung by either the pianist or an additional performer.

Eve Adam, also known as Harmonic Eve and formerly known as Phyllis Eve Weiler

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