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Catalog: Song Information: Page 42 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. "Man Proposes, God Disposes"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/29/99
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From the composer's foreward: Text Comments: Who was helpless back in Prague, And who was rich before, He's a poor soul in Terezin, His body's bruised and sore. Who was toughened up before, He'll survive these days. But who was used to servants Will sink into his grave. See I Never Saw Another Butterfly... (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 9/29/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Mango Tuba"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Complex rhythmically. Optional notes bring high note to G5; still high tessitura, often centering around E5. Tonal feel with only mild dissonance. Unusual and potentially quite charming. Text Comments: mangoes are not cigarettes mangoes are fleshy skinful passionate fruits mangoes are hungry to be sucked mangoes are glad to be stuck in the teeth mangoes like slush and kissing mangoes are not filter tipped mangoes are idiosyncratic seasonal seducers mangoes are worse than adams apple mangoes are what parents & parliaments warn against mangoes like making rude noises mangoes are not extra mild mangoes are greedy delicious tongue-teasers mangoes are violently soft mangoes are fibrous intestinal lovebites mangoes like beginning once again mangoes are not cigarettes mangoes are tangible sensual intelligence mangoes are debauched antisocialites mangoes are a positive good in the world mangoes like poetry mangoes are music This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Mascot and Symbol"Song 1 (not extractable) from set Daughters
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/5/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 72. After a brief instrumental introduction that is both somewhat playful and somewhat tense, the voice enters consonantly, describing the narrator's child's gift of a clay head, with an attractive child-like melody above lyrical lines in the violin and a quiet, high piano line like a music box. When the narrator describes what she did with the child's clay head, the cello enters pizzicato and the music begins to gradually gain some gravity while still retaining a lightness ("sky and tree and cloud" and elsewhere) and even a quality the composer annotates as "quirky" (the 5/8 instrumental interlude following "...travelling with me In the mind's reflected eye On all my mental journeys". The music reaches a depth of gravity on the narrator's statement that "This discarded piece of forgotten play Became mascot and symbol" but rebounds into an exuberant lightness on the final line "My Love Caged in a lump of clay" Text Comments: My little daughter made a head of clay Then tiring of it gave the thing away to me I put it on the window sill in front of my desk, with sky and tree And moving cloud beyond. At first I hardly noticed it, at least not consciously A rough and odd-shaped head that could belong to either man or beast. But seeing it there both day and night In changing patterns of shadow and light And traveling with me In the mind's reflected eye On all my mental journeys This discarded piece of forgotten play Became mascot and symbol My love Caged in a lump of clay. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Maundy Thursday"Song 4 (not extractable) from set Sing Me at Midnight
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/16/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: moderato commodo. Sweet and lyrical, dying away at the end to quasi-recit. attacca to song five. Text Comments: Between the brown hands of a server-lad The silver cross was offered to be kissed. The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced. (And kissing, kissed the emblem of a creed.) Then mourning women knelt; meek mouths they had, (And kissed the Body of the Christ inded.) Young children came, with eager lips and glad. (These kissed a silver doll, immensely bright.) Then I, too, knelt before that acolyte. Above the crucifix I bent my head: The Christ was thin, and cold, and very dead: And yet I bowed, yea, kissed--my lips did cling. (I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing.) This entry contributed by G&K around 9/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Maybe"Song 1 (extractable) from set Dove Sta Amore
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Moderately". Somewhat tricky rhythmically, often with jazzy off beats. somewhat dissonant. attractive. High note is sustained, mezzo piano. Text Comments: Maybe he believes me, maybe not. Maybe I can marry him, maybe not. Maybe the wind on the prairie, The wind on the sea, maybe, maybe, Somebody somewhere, maybe, maybe, can tell. I will lay my head on his shoulder And when he asks me I will say yes, Maybe. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Mazurka"Song 2 (extractable) from set Mouvements du coeur
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/18/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Very sad and melancholy" are the instructions Poulenc gives for this piece. Shifting modality over a steady, slow dance rhythm. Tricky musically but vocally in a comfortable range. Text Comments:
Les bijoux aux poitrines,
Les soleils aux plafonds
Les robes opalines,
Miroirs et violons
Font ainsi, font, font, font
Des mains tomber l'aiguille
L'aiguille de raison
Des mains de jeunes filles
Qui s'envolent et font
Font ainsi, font, font,
D'un regard qui s'appuie,
D'une ride a leur front
Le beau temps ou la pluie
Et d'un soupir larron
Font ainsi, font, font, font
Du bal une tourmente
Où sage et vagabond
D'entendre l'inconstante
Dire oui, dire non
Font ainsi, font, font, font
Danser l'incertitude
Dont les pas compteront,
Oh! Le doux pas de prudes,
Leurs silences profonds
Font ainsi, font, font, font,
Du bal une contrée
Où les feux s'uniront.
Des amours rencontrées
Ainsi la neige fond.
La neige fond, fond, fond. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/18/99. The contributor(s) rehearsed the song. "Medaille de Sauvetage"Song 1 (extractable) from set Three Soupault Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:00 Fast and quirky with a blurred accompaniment. Text Comments: (Translation) My nose long like a knife and my eyes red from laughing At night I gather the milk and the moon and run without turning around If the trees are afraid behind me I don't give a damn How beautiful: indifference at midnight Where are these people going pride of the cities village fiddlers the crowd dances up a storm and me just this anonymous passer-by or somebody else whose name I forgot This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Metamorphosis: Fish"Song 4 (extractable) from set Metamorphosis
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: begins with unmetered piano introduction then settles into a Lento tempo with a rocking figure in the left hand marked "monotonously". Song gains in rhythmic pulse and intensity until final flash in piano part (a very fast run that, I am told, becomes manageable with the right fingering). For what it's worth, probably the most performed song in the cycle. Text Comments: It requires faith: to travel a murky world where stop signs are sea anemones, subway stations clams. I risk nothing in shedding human sound, my past's voices; and gradually I learn the movements of a swimmer who never touched the ground. I trust the sea's intention and inhabit a lucid dream, op'ning and shutting my gills like angel's wings, losing myself and finding myself with each inhalation. I'm heavy as a feather of mercury: I flash and am gone. Recordings: in progress; from Albany records eventually, with Carol Webber, soprano and Benton Hess, piano This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99. The contributor(s) analyzed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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