|
|
|
Catalog: Song Information: Page 65 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 Heart asks Pleasure First"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: "Slowly" "Molto espressivo" Hangs around F4. Text Comments: Full text: The heart asks pleasure first, And then excuse from pain; And then those little anodynes That deadens suffering And then, to go to sleep; And then if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Hour"Song 5 (extractable) from set The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=63. begins measured, as someone carefully restraining emotion; builds quickly to more concern. Ends bleakly to my ear. Uses an expanded tonality that is both attractive and interesting. Text Comments:
[text based upon the poem "The Hour" by Sara Teasdale] This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Instilling"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 56. A seven-note rhythm lasts five quarter notes, and so changes metric position within the four-four meter; moreover the seven rhythmic notes of the ostinato use six-note pitch pattern. The complex interaction of these patterns represents the EKG line of the poem, according to composer and critic Russell Platt (from his liner notes). Text Comments: All day from high within the skull--Dome of a Pantheon, trepanned--light shines Into the body. Down that stair Sometimes there's fog: opaque red droplets check The beam. Sometimes tall redwood-tendoned glades Come and go, whose dwellers came and went. Now darting feverishly anywhere, Manic duncecap its danseuse eludes, Now slowed by grief, white-lipped, Grasping the newel bone of its descent, This light can even be invisible Till a deep sparkle, regular as script, As wavelets of an EKG, defines The dreamless gulf between two shoulder blades. See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Key of the Kingdom"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:10 Unlike the other two rhymes this one doubles back and returns to its opening phrase. A gentle wandering setting in which the return happens much faster than the journey to the center of the text‹¹a basket of flowers¹. Hidden in the simple story is a text of great richness and psychological complexity. The singer needs to convey both the outward simplicity and the throb at the heart of the song. Text Comments: This is the key of the kingdom: In that kingdom is a city, In that city is a town, In that town there is a street, In that street there winds a lane, In that lane there is a yard, In that yard there is a house In that house there waits a room, In that room there is a bed, On that bed there is a basket, A basket of flowers. Flowers in the basket, Basket on the bed, Bed in the chamber, Chamber in the house, House in the weedy yard, Yard in the windy lane, Lane in the broad street, Street in the high town, Town in the city, City in the kingdom: This is the key of the kingdom. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Kiss"Song 3 (extractable) from set Mystery
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: eighth = 104. Marked "with humor." light, somewhat syncopated, quirky. Ends with big crescendo that culminates unexpectedly in a quiet button. Text Comments: I hoped that he would love me And he has kissed my mouth, But I am like a stricken bird that cannot reach the south. For though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not as wonderful as all the dreams I had. This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Lake"Song 5 (extractable) from set Metamorphosis
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Moderato". A fairly short song with a constant sextuplet subdivision in the right hand. Text Comments: If only I could change like the lake-- dark-- light-- dark-- a broadening smile They could go crazy on the banks; shout, turn cartwheels; Still I would be placid, for all their coming and going 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. "The Last Invocation"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/25/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Optional notes take the voice part only down to a C4. Lento, quasi recitative, writes Bacon at the start of the song. Soft & sweet, with some especially surprising dissonances to my ear. Ethereal, slow moving part, low hanging vocal part Text Comments: Full text: At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be wafted. Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of softness unlock the locks with a whisper, Set ope the doors O Soul! Tenderly! Be not impatient! (Strong is your hold, O mortal flesh! Strong is your hold, O love.) Recordings: unknown This entry contributed by G&K around 9/25/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Little Box"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 3:00. Starts with little scraps of sound - very high, quite fast, the voice whirring and humming - and is pulled down to earth to present the first encounter with the little box. The process reverses at the end of the song as the music evaporates, getting higher and higher. The last line, "take care of the little box" becomes a kind of envoi heard in some form at the end of each of the following songs. Text Comments: The little box gets her first teeth And her little length Little width little emptiness And all the rest she has The little box continues growing The cupboard that she was inside Is now inside her And she grows bigger bigger bigger Now the room is inside her And the house and the city and the earth And the world she was in before The little box remembers her childhood And by a great great longing She becomes a little box again Now in the little box You have the whole world in miniature You can easily put it in a pocket Easily steal it easily lose it Take care of the little box This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
|
