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Catalog: Song Information: Page 54 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. "Revival"Song 3 (extractable) from set Subway Songs
This entry contributed by Joel Weiss around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Third of three Subway songs. Tops out at Ab. Text Comments: Based on native American poem: Snow is a mind falling, a continuous breath of climbs, loops, spirals dips into the earth, like white fireflies waiting to land... This entry contributed by Joel Weiss around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) performed the song. "Righteous Joseph"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 11/14/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A centerpiece for this cycle that is much longer than the first or third songs. Unlike the first son, it is more clearly for soprano in terms of tessitura. Marked fast and light, quarter=176. Attractive. Text Comments: When righteous Joseph wedded was To Israel's Hebrew maid, The angel Gabriel came from heav'n, And to the Virgin said: 'Hail, blessed Mary full of grace, the Lord remian on thee; Thou shalt conceive and bear a son, Our savior for to be': Then sing you all, both great and small, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell! We may rejoice to hear the voice of the angel Gabriel. Then Joseph thought to shun all shame And Mary to forsake; But God's dear angel in a dream His mind did undertake: 'Fear not, old Joseph, she's thy wife, She's still a spotless maid; Their's no conceit or sin at all against her can be laid': [refrain] Thus Mary and her husband kind Together did remain, Until the time of Jesus' birth, As scripture doth make plain. As mother, wife, and virtuous maid, Our Savior sweet conceived; And in due time to bring us him of whom we were bereaved: [refrain] Sing praises all, both young and old, To him that wrought such things; And all without the means of man, Sent us the King of Kings, Who is of such a spirit blest, That with his might did quell The world, the flesh, and by his death Did conquer death and hell: [refrain] This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "River Snow"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:10 Shifting patterns - a five note vocal line enters at different points over an eight note piano part; all in straight quarter-notes - very still and hushed. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Rome (May, 1935)"Song 5 (not extractable) from set From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/13/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Lento e languido" quarter = 58. Lyrical yet angular. Text Comments: Narrator observes Rome and its people: poor, fierce, haunting. The text ends with this text: "Rome. Sunday café. . . Very cold . . . The Prime Minister's letter offering to recommend me for the Companion of Honour. No. No. No." 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 11/13/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Roses du soir Op. 1, No. 2 (1915) [Evening Roses]"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: Lent. (At the beginning of the music is the metronome indication of quarter-note equals 30.)
Recordings: Not performed See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:20 Recit and waltz! The singer moves from giving practical advice to the beginnings of a swoon at the thought of the bewitching beauty of the flowers. Text Comments: So many are the social qualities of flowers that it would be a difficult task to enumerate them. We always feel welcome when, on entering a room, we find a display of flowers on the table. When there are flowers about, the hostess appears glad, the children pleased, the very dog and cat grateful for our arrival, the whole scene and all the personages seem more hearty and beautiful, because of the bewitching roses, and orchids, and lilies, and mignonette! This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Sandpiper"Song 4 (not extractable) from set Rain Forest
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/1/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Con brio. Busy accompaniment with an almost constant sixteenth note subdivision. Alternate notes take the high pitch down to only an F5. Hoiby's style is attractive, interesting, and accessible. Text Comments: The roaring along side he takes for granted, and that ev'ry so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward, in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake. The beach hisses like fat. On his left, a sheet of interrupting water comes and goes and glazes over his dark and brittle feet. He runs, he runs straight through it, watching his toes. Watching, rather, the spaces of sand between them, where (no detail too small) the Atlantic drains rapidly backwards and downwards. As he runs, he stares at the dragging grains. The world is a mist. And then the world in minute and vast and clear. The tide is higher or lower. He couldn't tell you which. His back is focussed; he is preoccupied, looking for something, something, something. Poor bird, he is obsessed! The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray, mixed with quartz grains, rose, and amethyst. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/1/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Satisfaction"Song 5 (extractable) from set Cabaret Songs: Volume 3
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Short charming two page song. alternates tempos as piano illustrates what I imagine to be the bee's buzzing (fast) and the voice's simple fable (slower). Text Comments: When you look for something grand and ample take a bee for a sample: sits a second on a rose sips a bit and goes. Satisfaction, after all, can be sweet and small. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/11/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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