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Catalog: Song Cycle Index: Page 17 of 54
Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. Cycle or set: Cabaret Songs: Volume 3
Cycle Comments:
six songs for medium [or medium low] voice and piano. Perhaps less of a cycle than a collection. The composer prefaces the volume with the following passage: "Although Cabaret Songs were written for Joan Morris, technically a mezzo-soprano, these songs are intended to be sung in a diseur or diseuse tessitura, that is, principally using the lower half of the vocal range. Volumes 3 and 4 have a lower tessitura than the first two volumes:....This does not mean the singer should use chest tone exclusively! A more speaking tone is recommended in order to give the words equal value to the notes. (Bear the above in mind when deciding what transposition may be necessary.) These songs are not written with operatic voice-classifications in mind, although they are performable by the trained voice and have often been so. Thus they can be fairly efficacious training in theater-style performance for voice students." The songs usually have a jazzy feel and are very approachable for an audience.
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1. "The Total Stranger in the Garden"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, G3 - Db5 (original key), medium low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a female perspective
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2. "Love in the Thirties"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, B3 - C#5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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3. "Thius King of Orf"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, C#4 - E5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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4. "Miracle Song"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, A3 - Eb5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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5. "Satisfaction"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, C#4 - D5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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6. "Radical Sally"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium
- treble clef, G3 - Eb5 (original key), medium low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a female perspective
[click for top of page] Cycle or set: Cabaret Songs: Volume 4
Cycle Comments:
six songs for medium [or medium low] voice and piano. Perhaps less of a cycle than a collection. The composer prefaces the volume with the following passage: "Although Cabaret Songs were written for Joan Morris, technically a mezzo-soprano, these songs are intended to be sung in a diseur or diseuse tessitura, that is, principally using the lower half of the vocal range. Volumes 3 and 4 have a lower tessitura than the first two volumes:....This does not mean the singer should use chest tone exclusively! A more speaking tone is recommended in order to give the words equal value to the notes. (Bear the above in mind when deciding what transposition may be necessary.) These songs are not written with operatic voice-classifications in mind, although they are performable by the trained voice and have often been so. Thus they can be fairly efficacious training in theater-style performance for voice students." The songs usually have a jazzy feel and are very approachable for an audience.
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1. "Angels Are the Highest Form of Virtue"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, A3 - C4 (original key), medium low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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2. "Poet Pal of Mine"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, G3 - F#5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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3. "Can't Sleep"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, A3 - C5 (original key), medium low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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4. "At the Last Lousy Moments of Love"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, A3 - C4 (original key), low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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5. "Lady Luck"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, B3 - D5 (original key), medium tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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6. "Blue"
- Music: by Bolcom, William (all songs in catalog) originally for medium voice
- treble clef, G3 - D5 (original key), low tessitura, 1 voice and 1 piano [GET IT!]
- Text: by Weinstein, Arnold (all songs in catalog)
- in English, from a gender-neutral perspective
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