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Catalog: Song Information: Page 5 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. "after bells"Song 18 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A fast (quarter=184) peal of bells precede the vocal line, which is slower (quarter = 60-66). The falling third motive of the bells is then transformed into lush "fragrant" chords and rising thirds at the close. Sustained D5 at start of vocal line. Text Comments: About a "peal of fragrance" from flowers just after some bells had rung. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "After Yesterday"Song 10 (extractable) from set Bird by Bird
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 72. The longest song in the cycle, at least by pages (4). Many meter changes, vocalese passages, high and fast flute passages. Several glissandos in voice part and several directions to bend notes in flute. Text Comments: After yesterday afternoon's blue clouds and white rain the mockingbird in the backyard untied the drops from leaves, drops from twigs with a long singing. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Ah! Sun-Flower"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Allegretto. Russell Platt writes in his cd notes, "...deceptively friendly, an accompaniment pattern of freely constructed open fourths and fifths clouding the G major harmony until the close. Text Comments: Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done: Where the Youth pined away with desire, And a pale Virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves and aspire Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/21/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Ajax"
This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 12'. Commissioned and Premiered by the University of Washington Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; William O. Smith, Principal Conductor, Leon Lishner, Bass 2/72. (Subsequent Performances Include One at the Aspen Festival 8/85) A powerful setting of Ajax's suicide speech. One of the composers' Vietnam War protest pieces. Text Comments: Based on the Translation of the Sophocles by John Moore Recordings: Broadcast on the ASUC Radio Series. Indiana Univ. Press C.D., Music by John Eaton This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "All I Need to Know"Song 3 (extractable) from set Metamorphosis
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "Andante". composer remarked to me that this song was "disturbing". :-) A fiendishly fast repeated figure in the piano part looks worse than it is, I am told: it fits the hand quite nicely. Text Comments: Foetus in a jar: Love in a glass case. I don't like the look of it; I know I was conceived immaculately... Born at the age of three... Love's a child that can walk and say his alphabet.... 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. "all ignorance toboggans"Song 7 (extractable) from set Estlin
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: optional Eb6. octave jump from C6 to C4; very high tessitura. quick moving song in various compound meters. rather chromatic vocal line but piano supports most notes somewhere in chord. piano part chordal or only one or two voices. Text Comments: all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again: but winter's not forever, even snow melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then? all history's a winter sport or three: but were it five, I'd still insist that all of history's too small for even me; for me and you, exceedingly too small. Swoop (shrill collective myth) into thy grave merely to toil the scale to shrillerness per every madge and mabel and dick and dave--tomorrow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us (if they do, we'll move away still further: into now) This entry contributed by G&K around 4/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "All Music, All Delight"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by 14 around 3/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Tempo: eighth note=100 approx.: 3 min difficult piano accomp Text Comments: lighter mood "We were lone wanderers passing by a wide wood under a wider sky/ Over us twilight loomed as still as the tall cedar on the dark hill." This entry contributed by 14 around 3/7/99. The contributor(s) performed the song. "All Night by the Rose"Song 2 (extractable) from set Five Early (and often naughty) Odes
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/26/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "A la waltz tempo (sixteenth=132)" "feel in one." Chromatic setting, often somewhat dissonant between voice and left hand of piano. Right hand provides "chick chick" of a waltz's "boom chick chick," always on a pedal of Bb3 and D4. Piano provides anchors for both singer's and listener's ear. Text Comments: "All night by the rose I lay; Dared I not the rose steal, And yet I bore the flower away." This entry contributed by G&K around 11/26/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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