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Catalog: Song Information: Page 50 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. "Out Over the Bay"Song 3 (not extractable) from set Four Quotations
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 1:45. based on Harvey Sollberger's Angel and Stone. complex rhythmically with many unusual techniques such as instrumentalists speaking words while playing Text Comments: Out over the bay the rattle of firecrackers and in the adjacent waters calm. See Selected Poems [by John Ashbery] (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Over the Fence"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=132, marked "Playfully". Text Comments: Over the fence strawberries grow Over the fence I could climb if I tried, I know. I know, Over the fence, Over the fence--Berries are nice! But if I stained my apron God would certainly scold! Oh dear, I guess if He were a boy He'd climb if He could! This entry contributed by G&K around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "over the ruins"Song 4 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Slow and solemn". "pesante". dotted quarter = 48. Centers on E. Delicate yet majestic, with low E pedal and many open fifths. Very quiet. Around 0:45. Text Comments: How does one summarize a haiku? It already is summarized to the essence of the thought! But, I'll try: this poem describes how a chestnut tree still keeps the ruins of a shrine sacred. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Palm Sunday: Naples"Song 5 (extractable) from set Quiet Songs
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/19/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Andante grazioso". The refrain ("Because it is the day of Palms, Carry a palm for me, Carry a palm in Santa Chiara, And I will watch the sea.") hangs fairly high (Bb4-Ab5) and is alternately mezzo piano and piano, but the rest of the song has a lower tessitura. Lyrical, flowing, in both piano and voice. Text Comments: Because it is the day of Palms, Carry a palm for me, Carry a palm in Santa Chiara, And I will watch the sea. I sit and watch the little sail lean sideways on the sea, The sea is blue from here to Sorrento And the sea wind comes to me. I se the white clouds lift from Sorrento And the dark sail lean upon the sea. Because it is the day of Palms, Carry a palm for me, Carry a palm in Santa Chiara, And I will watch the sea. I have grown tired of all these things. And what is left for me? I have no place in Santa Chiara, There is no place upon the sea. But carry a palm in Santa Chiara, Carry a palm for me. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/19/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Pantomime (1919)"Song 3 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes pour chant et piano
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: Modéré avec beaucoup de fantaisie. 3 pages, approximately 3 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. "Papa Has a Pig"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/7/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: half = 92, marked "Sprightly". Alternates between text declamation almost at tongue twister speed and a more lyrical, "serious" paean to papa's big toe. Very funny, accessible. Text Comments: Papa has a pig. And a big pig too. Papa plays a piggy-toe that I can't do. O Papa has the biggest pig you ever did see. He gave only ten little piggies to me. Papa has the star of all the swine, Papa shines stern in the sty. Papa goes to market. And I stay home. Papa doesn't tickle his toes all alone. O Papa has the fattest pig you ever did feel. My ten little piglets just pinch and squeal. Papa has the star of all the swine, Papa shines stern in the sty. Papa has a pen. And a big pen too. Papa rides a piggy-back that I can't do. O Papa stands out in the pig-feet race. My ten little wiggles don't go any place. Papa has the star of all the swine. Shine, Papa, shine, shine, shine in the sty. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/7/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Parents (December, 1940)"Song 7 (not extractable) from set From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/15/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Largo ed affettuoso" sixteenth = 69. A particularly beautiful song to my ear. Although there are phrases with a lower tessitura, the song as a whole seems to lie a bit higher than the other songs in the cycle. Text Comments: Beginning of the text: "How beautiful they were, those old people--I mean father and mother--how simple, how clear, how untroubled." More. Recordings: 4 recordings at Amazon.com. The one linked below is a special order at Amazon (there are two that are available for almost immediate shipping) but the one below is Janet Baker's recording and includes some RealAudio clips you can hear over the net. See Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Baker, Isepp) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 11/15/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Pearl Harbor"Song 3 (extractable) from set Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be added by composer in early '99 Text Comments: Beginning of text: "I belong here. I was born here. The palms sift their fingers and the men shove by in shirts, shaving in underwear shorts. They curse and scratch the wet hair in their armpits, and spit. Whores spread their delicate little germs, or, indifferently, don't." This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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