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Catalog: Song Information: Page 44 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. "Mother and Babe"Song 3 (extractable) from set By the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 52. extended tonality with some delicate dissonance. requires p and pp singing, never louder than mf. Text Comments: I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother, The sleeping mother and babe--hush'd I study them long and long This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "move deeply, rain"Song 2 (not extractable) from set Estlin
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/4/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: slow moving backdrop with frequent fast flashes of color from soprano or piano. truly for coloratura soprano: very high and with coloratura. Text Comments: move/ deeply, rain/ (dream hugely)wish/ firmly. splendidly advancing colour// strike/ into form/ (actually)realness/ kill// (make/ strangely)known(establish/ new)come,what/ Being!open us open// our/selves. create/ (suddenly announce:hurl)/ blind full steep love 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. "Movement for Voice and Piano (1927-31)"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: Adagissimo. 9 pages, approximately 5 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. "mr. Toad"Song 20 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Fast, dotted quarter = 108. One of the higher songs in the cycle. Vocal line pops up and down extremely quickly from G4 to F#5 to F#4. Sustained F#5. Sprechstimme close. The lopsided rhythm of the left hand is very fun and paints a toad-hop in a very expressive way. Text Comments: The narrator wants a toad to get out of the way of planting bamboos. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Mrs Mother Has a Nose"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 48. Marked "Slowly (with wonder)". In the Locrian mode, makes good use of the tritone between first and fifth scale degrees for comic effect. occasional syncopation also effective for depicting the Mother's olfactory prowess. Text Comments: What a big nose Mrs Mother has, the better to smell her dear. Sniff sniff sniff it comes round the door, detective of everything queer. Two big noses Mrs Mother has, the better to quell her dear. "I smell something odd, I smell something bad, what is that smell in here?" Three big noses Mrs Mother has, they grow and grow in the night. Sniff sniff sniff her naughty naughty dear! And she also can smell with her ears. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "My Daddy"Song 2 (not extractable) from set Verses From Ogden Nash
This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Some rather " demonic " music to match the lyrics, particularly at the end.
Text Comments: You may have read my daddy's verse, I hope he fries in Hell. This entry contributed by Robert Jordahl around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "My German Boyfriend"
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: My German boyfriend had very thick hair. He played the clarinet in an orchestra near Mannheim. He made me laugh, his English was so bad. I didn't even mind when he lit up a cigarette. God, he was beautiful! I only stayed for a very short while. We drank a lot of beer. (What else could we do?) If I had my way I would go back to live and sit by the fire and run my fingers through his hair. Gott, war er schön! 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. "My Love in Her Attire"Song 1 (extractable) from set Five Early (and often naughty) Odes
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/24/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Lively" dotted quarter = 116. Meter changes frequently between 5/8 and 6/8. An effective contemporary setting that requires moderate audience sophistication. Text Comments: Full text: My love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her: For ev'ry season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring and summer. No beauty she doth miss, When all her robes are on; But Beauty's self she is, When all her robes are gone. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/24/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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