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Catalog: Song Information: Page 30 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. "I Was Not Sorrowful - Poem for Voice and Piano"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: With gloomy introspection, not fast. Morbid, wearily. 3 pages, approximately 2 min.
Recordings: Not performed See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "I Wish It So"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by anonymous around 5/9/99 Know this song? Add your review! See I Wish It So: Dawn Upshaw (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. Music Comments: marked "allegretto". A simple, beautiful, longing song. Text Comments: I've an unrest inside me. Oh, it's long I have had such an unrest inside me, And it's getting' real bad. I'm sleepin' at night, And my heart beats so loud that I wake. All dizzy and light With the dreamin' and feelin' this ache. Such a thumpin' inside me, That I think I'll go mad. For I wish it so! What I wish I still don't know. But it's bound to come Though so long to wait. I keep saying "Tonight!" or "Today," through the endless days And my heart clamors and prays it will not come too late! But when come it does, In the shape of love or life, I will give my life, And my love, I know. I've such grand aims, with so many names, that I grow numb, But sure, one is bound to come! Because I wish, I wish it so. I wish it so. It's the unrest inside me, And I think I'll go mad. See Marc Blitzstein: Songs (Sharp, Holvik, Blier) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "I'm Nobody"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A comfortable tessitura for most voices. Allegretto. Text Comments: Full text: I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us, don't tell! How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog to tell your name the live-long day To an admiring bog. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "I'm very sorry"Song 8 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Slow and very free." quarter = 44. First part of song is unaccompanied. Very expressive, beautiful vocal line. :40. Text Comments: The narrator is "sorry to have to die" now when the plum trees are blossoming. I wish I could reprint the haiku; I find it beautiful. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "I'm Yours!"
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: I'll spy you and you'll spy me and, oh what a caught couple we'll be. I'll motion you and you'll motion me, and oh, what an emotional couple we'll be. I'll move to you and you'll move to me and oh, what an anxious couple we'll be. I'm all yours so take me. Spy my motions, move me, I'm yours! I'll tease you and you'll tease me. Oh, what a delighted couple we'll be. I'll tickle you and you'll tickle me and, oh, what a ticklish couple we'll be. I'll touch you and you'll touch me and oh, what a sensitive couple we'll be. I'm all yours so take me. Tease me, tickle me, touch me, I'm yours! I'll hold you and you'll hold me and oh, what an intimate couple we'll be. I'll kiss you and you'll kiss me and oh, what a passionate couple we'll be. I'll wrestle you and you'll wrestle me and oh, what a spent couple we'll be. I'm all yours so take me! Spy my motions, move me, tease me, tickle me, touch me, hold me, kiss me, wrestle me, I'm yours! See A Child of Air: Songs by American Composers (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 3/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "I."Song 1 (not extractable) from set Three Silent Things
This entry contributed by G&K around 2/15/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Broad, free, quarter = 72. some short, fastish 16th note melismas. Tessitura seems good for lyric soprano. Almost recitative-like. Text Comments: I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. This entry contributed by G&K around 2/15/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "If I thought..."
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/5/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 144. cello part marked as alternating between "friskiness on staccato notes with lyricism on slurs." passionate. somewhat tricky rhythmically. The composer notes the rhythmic contrasts in this song in her introduction. Text Comments: If I thought I could get away And come to you, Ten thousand miles would be like one mile. but we are both in the same city And I dare not see you And a mile is longer than a million miles. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "If the Soul Was Born with Pinions"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: If the soul was born with pinions What are hovels to it, what are mansions? What's Genghis Khan to it and what his Hordes? I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused: The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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