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Catalog: Song Information: Page 38 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. "Les chats (1941) [The Cats]"Song 2 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
3 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. "Let Down the Bars"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: Molto tranquillo. Hangs around A4, B4; ok tessitura for most voices. Text Comments: Full text: Let down the bars, O Death, The Tired flocks Come in, whose bleating ceases to repeat, whose wand'ring is done. Thine is the stillest night Thine securest fold Too near art thou for seeking thee Too tender to be told. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Let down the Bars, Oh Death"Song 3 (not extractable) from set Death and the Maiden
This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99
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The music is marked by a recurring 4 bar phrase in the woodwinds.
Text Comments: Let domn the bars, O Death. The tired flocks come in whose bleating ceases to repeat, whose wandering is done. Thine is the stillest night, thine the severest fold. Too near thou art for seeking thee. Too tender to be told. This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Let Evening Come"Song 3 (not extractable) from set American Triptych
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/4/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: voice part hangs quite high (like first song). Ideal for coloratura soprano. [to be performed; Mark's style is very complimentary to the voice and incorporates many compositional techniques usually within either an expanded tonality or quasi-tonality.] Text Comments: Let the light of late afternoon/ shine through chinks in the barn, moving/ up the bales as the sun moves down.// Let the cricket take up chafing/ as a woman takes up her needles/ and her yarn. Let evening come.// Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned/ in long grass. Let the stars appear/ and the moon disclose her silver horn.// Let the fox go back to its sandy den./ Let the wind die down. Let the shed/ go black inside. Let evening come.// To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop/ in the oats, to air in the lung/ let evening come.// Let it come, as it will, and don't/ be afraid. God does not leave us/ comfortless, so let evening come. See Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 4/4/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"Song 4 (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 116, 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. "Let The Florid Music Praise"Song 1 (extractable) from set On This Island, Op.11
This entry contributed by 16 around 3/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: There are two distinct parts to this song, the first very 'maestoso' the second more gentle and rubato. The song is vocally quite challenging and requires a brilliance of tone for the first section coupled with a much more fluid line for the second. The poetry is very sophisticated and needs to be carefully thought out but it is a very rewarding piece if you can just put that little extra thought into it, its only 3mins long so if you do it on its own its rather good but as a lead in to the whole cycle it can be a bit of a killer! Definitely worth it though. Text Comments: It starts out relatively cheerful and then becomes quite bleak and introspective. Dramatically it is challenging but very striking. A first time listener might have some problems with it due to the poetry but anyone who was a little more poetically well read should enjoy it immensely as the song cycle itself is one of Britten and Auden's best collaborations. See Collected Poems [of W. H. Auden] (Poetry) This entry contributed by 16 around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Let Us Not Forget"Song 5 (extractable) from set Six Love Songs
This entry contributed by David Wolfson around 11/14/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=68. Text Comments: Let us not forget The pain that brought us here, The wounds we caused each other; Let us not forget How we tore into each other, Shredding snug deceptions With bared teeth, Stripping off illusions Like living skin. Let us not forget The healing -slowly- In each other's arms. And let us remember At each beginning That we come to peace Through pain. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "let's live suddenly"Song 1 (extractable) from set Estlin
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/4/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 1:10, quarter = 132, fastish. somewhat spare piano part. voice doesn't hang all that high, ascends smoothly to final forte B5. Voice begins a capella with no piano introduction. Text Comments: let's live suddenly without thinking// under honest trees,/ a stream/ does. the brain of a cleverly-crinkling/-water pursues the angry dream/ of the shore. By midnight,/ a moon/ scratches the skin of the organized hills// an edged nothing begins to prune// let's live like the light that kills/ and let's as silence,/ because Whirl's after all: (after me) love, and after you./ I occasionally feel vague how/ vague I don't know tenuous Now-/spears and The Then-arrows making do/ our mouths something red, something tall See E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 4/4/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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