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Catalog: Song Information: Page 25 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. "Halloween"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by Paul M. Stouffer around 3/13/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Tempo-Lively- half note beat at 80 Average audience sophistication Performance time 1:15 Very appealing as a short humorous number. No technical difficulties. Text Comments: "HALLOWEEN (1991) the composer puts texts by Jean Soule in a fitting atonal setting; appropriate jumping chords match the scares of the poem" _ Deborah Kravetz, Penn Sounds critic. This entry contributed by Paul M. Stouffer around 3/13/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928)"Song 4 (not extractable) from set From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/12/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Solenne e meditativo" quarter = 52. Begins and ends without meter. Particularly speech-like in parts. F5 pp. Looks especially orchestral in piano part. Text Comments: Beginning of text: "Yesterday we went to Hardy's funeral. What did I think of? Of Max Beerbohm's letter . . . Or a lecture . . . About women's writing. At intervals some emotion broke in. But I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. One catches a bishop's frown and twitch; sees his polished shiny nose; . . ." more then about the dramatic presentation of Hardy's coffin, " . . . Perhaps melodramatic . . . . Over all this broods for me some uneasy sense of change and mortality and how partings are deaths; and then a sense of my own fame . . . And a sense of the futility of it all." (end) Recordings: 4 recordings at Amazon.com. The one linked below is a special order at Amazon (there are two that are available for almost immediate shipping) but the one below is Janet Baker's recording and includes some RealAudio clips you can hear over the net. See Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Baker, Isepp) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 11/12/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour"Song 1 (extractable) from set Back by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter note = 45--piano part is slowish but text largely at a standard spoken tempo. The melody is unusual but primarily stepwise and the piano harmony is transparent but based on tritones until the very close of the song, where it resolves to perfect fifths and octaves. The right hand of the piano plays the vocal part's melody. A short song, using non-functional chords but transparent, not very dissonant, and not hard for the singer to tune or listeners to understand. Text Comments: Full text: "Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth? These eager business aims--books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness?" Recordings: None known This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Having a Coke with You"Song 9 (not extractable) from set Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/30/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer Text Comments: Beginning of text: "HAVING A COKE WITH YOU is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irun, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Traversera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you partly because of your love for yoghurt partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary" [more] This entry contributed by G&K around 11/30/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "having spoken ill"Song 14 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: More (superficially?) atonal than most in this cycle. Unmetered, free. Wide-ranging piano part with several fast (if freely-measured) runs. Text Comments: The narrator feels "the cold of autumn's fatal wind" on his/her lips upon speaking ill (of someone, presumably). This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Henry Lloyd"Song 8 (not extractable) from set Songs of Madness and Sorrow
This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: legato and sostenuto, mostly with clarinet, bassoon, and flute. Text Comments: Henry Lloyd, a bachelor who resided five miles and a half from Janesville was found dead last Sunday in his bed.... He was 83 years old.... Disappointment in love had made him a recluse.... It is said Henry fell in love with a girl from New York, years ago, but never confessed it.... He determined to go back east and ask for her hand in marriage. He made the trip only to find she had married another man the day before his arrival. He returned to Wisconsin broken hearted, and from that time to his death, he avoided female company. This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Her Eyes"Song 3 (extractable) from set Found Frozen
This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Timing ca. 6'15.
Slow tempo, with an extended piano introduction
Text Comments: The poem deals with remembrances of a woman at her funeral. This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Here Dead Lie We"Song 4 (extractable) from set We Happy Few
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Adagio, very quiet, and wistful, as if from the grave. Somewhat dissonant chords do not confuse the ear too much from comprehending the musical shape of the piece. A one-pager. Text Comments: Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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