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Catalog: Song Information: Page 48 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. "Of Obedience"Song 2 (extractable) from set Four Thoughts by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A short, one page song in 7/4. Much chromatic movement in piano. Last measure is stepwise ascent of separated notes from E5 to A5. Text Comments: There is something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men. This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Of Ownership"Song 1 (extractable) from set Four Thoughts by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 80. Quasi-tonal foundation with tension from half tone dissonances. Somewhat angular vocal line. attractive. Piano part largely sixteenth note arpeggio pattern. Text Comments: --as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself; Of vistas suppose some past sight through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fullness, life, now attain'd on the journey, Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied--and of what will yet be supplied, Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied. This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Offerings"Song 6 (extractable) from set Back by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/24/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: The song is a performance patchwork in which the singer decides what segment of the text comes at what time; piano part, simple and impressionistic, accompanies given segment. Quarter = 60; song should last from minute to minute and a half. Text Comments: Text is divided into sections which are arranged to the performer's discretion. The text divisions are indicated below by asterisks (*): A thousand perfect * men and women * appear, * Around * each gathers * a cluster of friends, * and gay children and youths, * with off'rings. Recordings: none? This entry contributed by G&K around 9/24/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Oh the anguish"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/5/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 92. Text Comments: Oh the anguish of these secret metings In the depth of night, I wait with the shoji open. You come late, and I see you shadow Move through the foliage At the bottom of the garden. We embrace hidden from my family. I weep into my hands. My sleeves are already damp. We make love, We make love and suddenly The firewatch lom up With clappers and lantern. How cruel they are to appear at such a moment. Upset by their apparition, I babble nonsense And can't stop talking Words with no connection. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "oh, the tiny cry"Song 12 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Very fast. Dotted quarter = 138. 0:15. Right hand might be difficult because of speed. Phrase with G5 hangs on E5. Text Comments: About "the tiny cry" a cricket makes when caught by a hawk. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Old Smoky"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:50 Very straightforward. The piano varies the accompaniment for each verse and the melody is the familiar traditional tune. Text Comments: On top of old Smoky, all covered with snow, there I lost my true lover through a courting too slow. Courting is a pleasure, and parting is a grief, but a false hearted lover is worse than a thief. A thief he will rob you and take all you have, but a false hearted lover will send you to your grave. The grave will decay you, and turn you to dust, not a boy in ten thousand a poor girl can trust. They'll hug you and kiss you and tell you more lies than the spikes in the railroad or stars in the skies. I'll go back to Old Smoky, that mountain so high, where the wild birds and turtle doves can hear my sad cry. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Old Tunes"Song 3 (extractable) from set The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 100. Composer notes, "the pedal markings are very important creating the effects of sounds floating." Voice "as from a distance." Very tuneful vocal line above a flowing piano part, with a brief middle section that is more dramatic ("But in the instant the airs remain, I know the laughter and the pain Of times that will not come again."). Delicate close. Text Comments: As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind. But in the instant the airs remain, I know the laughter and the pain Of times that will not come again. I try to catch at many a tune like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon. But they float away for who can hold Youth, or perfume, or the moon's gold? This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: On foot I had to walk through the solar systems, before I found the first thread of my red dress. Already, I sense myself. Somewhere in space hangs my heart, sparks fly from it, shaking the air, to other reckless hearts. 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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