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Catalog: Song Information: Page 11 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "Beat! Beat! Drums!"Song 2 (not extractable) from set Drum Taps
This entry contributed by G&K around 12/9/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer Text Comments: Beat! Beat! drums! blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows through doors burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying; Leave not the bridegroom quiet no happiness must he have now with his bride, Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain, So fierce you whirr and pound you drums so shrill you bugles blow. Beat! beat drums! blow! bugles! blow! Over the traffic of cities Over the rumble of the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds, no bargainers' bargains by day, no brokers or speculators--would they continue? Would the talkers be talking? Would the singer attempt to sing? Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge? Then rattle quicker, heavier drums you bugles wilder blow. Beat! beat! drums! blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid mind not the weeper or prayer Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums so loud you bugles blow. This entry contributed by G&K around 12/9/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Beautiful Women"Song 3 (extractable) from set Back by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/24/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Meter changes and fighting tonal triads within a relatively transparent texture form the basis of this short song, The vocal line is attractive, especially in the second half of the song. Fastish (quarter = 120). Text Comments: Text: "Women sit or move to and fro, some women are old, some are young, And the young are oh so beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young. Recordings: none This entry contributed by G&K around 9/24/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Before My Door"Song 4 (extractable) from set O Florida
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Con moto sostenuto" quarter = 84. Piano part looks particularly difficult. Vocal line goes high but approaches top well and gives the voice nice rests. Hoiby's style is singable, audience-pleasing, and musically satisfying. Text Comments: Start of text: "Now grapes are plush upon the vine. A soldier walks before my door. The hives are heavy with the combs. Before, before, before my door." Then seraphs are there and saints; then "acid sunlight fills the halls," making the house bare; and finally, "Blood smears the oaks. A soldier stalks before my door." Recordings: Recorded by Peter Stewart and Lee Hoiby on a CD, Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (CRI CD 685). Link below is to this recording. See Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (Stewart, Hoiby) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Before You Came"Song 1 (extractable) from set Before You Came
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Translated from Urdu. Quarter note = 84, steady. The mood needs to sustain over the whole song. Text Comments: Before you came, things were as they should be: the sky was the dead-end of sight, the road was just a road, wine merely wine. Now everything is like my heart, a color at the edge of blood: the grey of your absence, the color of poison, of thorns, the gold when we meet, the season ablaze, the yellow of autumn, the red of flowers, of flames, and the black when you cover the earth with the coal of dead fires. And the sky, the road, the glass of wine? The sky is a shirt wet with tears, the road a vein about to break, and the glass of wine a mirror in which the sky, the road, the world keep changing. Don't leave me now that you're here Stay. So the world may become like itself again: so the sky may be the sky, the road a road, and the glass of wine not a mirror, just a glass of wine. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "behind me the moon"Song 5 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Delicately." "shimmery." Transparent, shifting modality portrays shadows well. A beautiful, delicate song. About :40. Technically not difficult except for delicacy and legato. Text Comments: A variety of interpretations could be given to this observation of the shadow of pine trees in moonlight on the forest floor. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Being Your Slave"Song 10 (extractable) from set Love to Madness
This entry contributed by Rich Caruso around 11/7/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
melodic, dramatic
harmonically challenging
tonal
Text Comments: The lyric for this piece is the Shakespeare sonnet number 57, with no changes in text. Recordings: Love to Madness, contemporary renderings of the Sonnets in Song for piano and voice produced by composer Rich Caruso, 1998 http://members.aol.com/edargorter/ This entry contributed by Rich Caruso around 11/7/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Benedizione di San Francesco d'Assisi (1973) [Benediction of St. Francis of Assisi]"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: Quasi lento, legatissimo sempre. 6 pages, approximately 2 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Berceuse Delicieuse"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/7/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Regularly alternating foot stomps and hand claps at a tempo marked "With Dash (quarter = 112)" contrast with the occasional rhythmic hoops through which the singer has to jump of alternating meters. Nonetheless relatively easy and very charming. Text Comments: Yummy diddle dumpling, come eat up my son. Yummy diddle dumpling, eat my baby boy. He's a fat and tasty morsel to roll upon your tongue. Come devour my young joy. Yummy tummy tidbit, come eat my daughter. Yummy tummy tidbit, chew my baby girl. She's a rouncy bouncy pumpkin and as juicy as a plum. Come feast upon my pearl. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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