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Catalog: Song Information: Page 56 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. "Seville: Spider Legs"Song 10 (extractable) from set Ladies of Their Nights and Days
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/16/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A Spanish flamenco dancer who entraps men; a florid vocal "dance" disintegrates into scat; very tricky rhythmically, must be performed with a lot of flair. [ed.: spoken high B5 at end--but highest sung note is Ab5, as listed here] Duration 3:40 Text Comments: Beginning of text: "They call me Spider Legs because I'm quick and exciting! When I dance, I'm a devil on heels, which is a little bit frightening. It's really no wonder I rip men asunder. I'm faster than thunder and lightning! Just call me Tarantula and I'll put on my eight shoes. Then I'll tap on your table 'til you aren't able to say much but 'Adios' to the blues!" [more] This entry contributed by Richard Pearson Thomas around 10/16/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "She Went as Quiet as the Dew"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: This song could actually be pulled off by a lower voice, I think. The tessitura is not high at all. Semplice marking, transparent piano part for first half; second half is poco allegretto with more motion. Text Comments: She went as quiet as the dew from a familiar flow'r Not like the dew did she return at the accustomed hour. She dropped as softly as a star from out my summer's eve Less skillful than Leverier It's sorer to believe. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Silhouette"Song 1 (extractable) from set Shadow of the Blues
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Breezily". Blues feel, unsurprisingly, and jazzy rhythm to voice part. Must have liquid, easy middle and top. Text Comments: Southern gentle lady, Do not swoon. They've just hung a black man In the dark of the moon. They've hung a black man to a roadside tree in the dark of the moon For the world to see how Dixie protects its white womanhood. Southern gentle lady, be good! This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "Since You Went Away"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Even more restrained" quarter = c. 60. Joins with the one previous and one following songs to make a small group of three songs within the larger cycle. The piano plays only a single line of melody along with the singer, making for a spare and even oriental setting. Text Comments: After you were gone The moon came up and shone in the vacant window. I thought of you as a flower carried off by the wind. That went it's way and can never turn back. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Snake Dance"
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 10/6/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Dance tempo (quarter = 126). Exclusively a duet between voice and clarinet until the end of the song when the music for the last song begins to enter. Very lively with frequent meter changes. Difficult rhythm and pitch but energized and well-focused. Piano enters as last word of song is finishing with the dreamy and unhurried ostinato of the first poem's setting. Text Comments: a semantic dance, the politeness pulses along scales slippery with speech// from the slow long dwarf star centre gravitational pull of submerged need the body's coils recoil on the skin of our lives// we smile the theatrical smiles that mask our moving, our minds are almost mesmerized into belief This entry contributed by G&K around 10/6/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "snow whipering down"Song 27 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Very smooth and dreamy" "legato molto" "espressivo" quarter = 72-76. A ppp F#5 closes this song which otherwise centers somewhere around Bb4. About 1:30. Text Comments: After snow falls, the earth disappears, leaving only sky. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Social Note"Song 1 (extractable) from set Enough Rope
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/15/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Fast and restless". Piano part based on trill figure. Fairly quiet throughout. Text Comments: Lady, lady, should you meet One whose ways are all discreet, One who murmurs that his wife is the lodestar of his life, One who keeps assuring you That he never was untrue, Never loved another one...Lady, lady, lady, better run. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Soixante-Quatre Ans"Song 1 (extractable) from set Three Queneau Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:00 Rippling 12/8 accompaniment, undulating vocal line -- marked 'graceful'. Text Comments: (Translation) A pewter brooch lies stained and rusting in the road the little girl who dropped it there has now attained her eightieth year she's not thinking of her pewter brooch she's only thinking of the greens she'll cut for her rabbits in their hutch every day she's walking on the pewter brooch forgotten now for sixty-four years. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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