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Catalog: Song Information: Page 63 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. "The Enemies of the Little Box"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:20 Vocal part contains jumps and roulades; showy, petulant. Text Comments: Don't bow down before the little box Which supposedly contains everything Your star and all other stars Empty yourself In her emptiness Take two nails out of her And give them to the owners To eat Make a hole in her middle And stick on your clapper Fill her with blueprints And the skin of her craftsmen And trample on her with both feet Tie her to the cat's tail And chase the cat Don't bow down to the little box If you do You'll never straighten yourself out again This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Expense of Spirit"Song 3 (extractable) from set Love to Madness
This entry contributed by Rich Caruso around 11/7/99
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melodic, dramatic
harmonically challenging
tonal
Text Comments: The lyric for this piece is the Shakespeare sonnet number 129, with no changes in text. Recordings: Love to Madness, contemporary renderings of the Sonnets in Song for piano and voice produced by composer Rich Caruso, 1998 http://members.aol.com/edargorter/ This entry contributed by Rich Caruso around 11/7/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "the exquisite pure white fan"Song 24 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: If this were a longer song, the tessitura might be daunting for a medium range voice, but the song is only :40 so it might be ok. Very soft and delicate. "Plaintively". Quarter = 84-92. Text Comments: Observing "the exquisite pure white fan" of a girl whom the narrator lost. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/15/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Feast of Crispian"Song 1 (extractable) from set We Happy Few
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Maestoso. Quasi recitative. A powerfully stirring text, which is perhaps the most famous from this play, has inspired a wonderful strength and clarion call from the composer. Great fun to sing. Text Comments: This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbor, And say, "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, "These wounds I had on Crispian's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember what feats he did that day. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, But we in it shall be remember'd, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99. The contributor(s) performed the song. "The Five Versions of the Icicle"Song 5 (extractable) from set Household Tales
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:20 Marked 'spacious'. Episodic--each stanza set differently. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Fly and I"
This entry contributed by Paul M. Stouffer around 3/13/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
tempo-first section- Lively- dotted quarter=one beat at 60. second section-Slowly- eigthth=one beat at 90. third section- return to first with ending. Time-2:35 Average audience sophistication. Strength-The underlining accompaniment.
Takes a technically competent accompanist
Text Comments: The fly fights at the window he cannot comprehend: he searches about, becomes frantic and bangs himself against the panes. Then he settles down and seems to think before the whole thing begins again. And so I sit here and fight at my mental window There is that which I cannot comprehend------etc. (then return to first part) This entry contributed by Paul M. Stouffer around 3/13/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Garden"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/29/99
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From the composer's foreward: Text Comments: A little garden Fragrant and full of roses. The path is narrow And a little boy walks along it. A little boy, a sweet boy, Like that growing blossom. When the blossom comes to bloom, The little boy will be no more. See I Never Saw Another Butterfly... (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 9/29/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Garden"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:20 Flickering piano part - rather difficult, vocal part straightforward. Text Comments: It shines in the garden, in the white foliage of the chestnut tree, in the brim of my father's hat as he walks on the gravel. In the garden suspended in time my mother sits in a redwood chair; light fills the sky, the folds of her dress, the roses tangled beside her. And when my father bends to whisper in her ear, when they rise to leave and the swallows dart and the moon and stars have drifted off together, it shines. Even as you lean over this page, late and alone, it shines; even now in the moment before it disappears. 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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