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Catalog: Song Information: Page 33 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. "Intermezzo"Song 2 (extractable) from set Quiet Songs
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/19/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Slowly". Short sweet spare one page song. Text Comments: You are with me and I am with you--I surely would die if that were not true. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/19/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "into a cold night"Song 22 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Slowly and freely". Half = 48-52. No real vocal challenges. Unmetered, spare setting. Text Comments: The narrator does not recognize his/her own voice upon speaking "into a cold night.". This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Inventory"Song 5 (extractable) from set First there was light
This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Timing ca. 3'35"
Text Comments: The poem deals with the narrator sorting through her mother's possessions after her mother's death. Five songs in the cycle deal with modern relationships and may be extracted as a separate cycle. [2,4,5,6,8] This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Invocation"Song 1 (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: short, quarter=96 beginning of piece. A legato wind introduction moves into a piano and vibraphone roulade which begins a measureless fluttering of the strings over which the voice sings freely. Text Comments: "More poetry is said to come from Wisconsin than any other state in the union." This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Is there such a thing as day?"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: High F# needs to be easy but is not held. Andantino, piano part "with crystalline transparency, dolce." Song does not look technically difficult, but a nice melody with a well-composed feeling Text Comments: Full text: Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like water lillies? Has it feathers like a bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor! Oh, some wise man from the skies! Please to tell a little pilgrim Where the place called morning lies? This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Island"Song 3 (extractable) from set Shadow of the Blues
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Fast and fleeting", it is indeed very fast and quite tricky rhythmically. Frequent meter changes among unusual meters such as 11/16 and 13/16. Extended piano introduction. Held pianissimo Eb5 closes song. Text Comments: Wave of sorrow Do not drown me now: I see the island Still ahead somehow. I see the island And its sands are fair. Wave of sorrow take me there. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "It Doesn't Matter"
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: It doesn't matter, I've now come to see, that everyone has someone, everyone but me. Love doesn't matter, despite what they say. I'm thankful I'm solo. It's better that way. It doesn't matter, I no longer care. Life makes no guarantees. It isn't always fair. It's overrated, that romantic stuff. I've patiently waited long enough. How many people will settle for someone who isn't quite right, and make all sorts of adjustments just to have someone beside them each night? Look at the miserable couples you can count on your fingers and toes. Why people put up with all of that nonsense, well, God only knows. It doesn't matter. I'm simply too old to have to have someone to kiss or to hold. I've really grown out of needing these things, and now when I see two lovers touch, I'm thankful I don't have the pain to contend with because any more, it really doesn't matter very much. 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. "it is not easy"Song 19 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Simply, with humor". About :15. A short, fun, quirky song in b minor. Text Comments: An observation that, if a snail is not moving, the front end is difficult to distinguish from the back. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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