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Catalog: Song Information: Page 69 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 Rainy Summer"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:50 Melismatic at the opening, chordal and syllabic at "no breath of boughs", returning to the arpeggiated billowing music at the close. Text Comments: There's much afoot in heaven and earth this year; The winds hunt up the sun, hunt up the moon, Trouble the dubious dawn, hasten the drear Height of a threatening noon. No breath of boughs, no breath of leaves, of fronds, May linger or grow warm; the trees are loud; The forest, rooted, tosses in her bonds, And strains against the cloud. No scents may pause within the garden-fold; The rifled flowers are cold as ocean-shells; Bees, humming in the storm, carry the cold Wild honey to cold cells. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Real City"Song 2 (extractable) from set Cityscapes
This entry contributed by David Wolfson around 11/14/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=52. Requires lyrical high G4. Moves from slow block chords in accompaniment to more mechanical energy as text progresses, then subsides again as text describes where we live, "in the remnant spaces of the real city, in its shadows." Text Comments: The real city is between the walls, Under the floors, the roads, In crawl spaces and catwalks, Rooms with no windows. It is a city of machines, Of wires and pipes like running animals, Sewers, circuits and solid state. The real city has its own songs, Hums and clicks, The roaring of the giant generators, The echo of electrons falling. It has its own ways, the real city, And its own tongue. It speaks to itself, of itself, In steam and switches, ones and zeroes, Constant, continuous. We live in the remnant spaces of the real city, In its shadows. It has outgrown us. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Road to Avrillé"
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/26/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: (2:10) Simple, lyrical, a little wistful Text Comments: Full text: "April again in Avrillé, And the brown lark in air. And you and I a world apart, That walked together there. The cuckoo spoke from out the wood, The lark from out the sky. Embraced upon the highway stood, Lovesick you and I. The rosy peasant left his bess, The carrier slowed his cart, To shout us blithe obscenities and bless us from the heart, Who long before the year was out, Under the autumn rain, Far from the road to Avrillé, Parted with little pain." This entry contributed by Richard Pearson Thomas around 10/26/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Rose"Song 5 (extractable) from set Mystery
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked eighth=176, "sprightly." Quickly changing meters. Somewhat difficult rhythmically, and hangs often around A4 (A3 male). Text Comments: Beneath my chamber window Pierrot was singing, singing La la la la la la, Tra la la la la [etc.] I heard his lute the whole night thru Until the east was red Alas, alas, Pierrot I have no rose for flinging Aah [repeat etc.] Save one that drank my tears for dew Before its leaves were dead. I found it in the darkness I kissed it once and threw it Ta ta Ta ta I kissed it once I kissed it once and threw it The petals scattered over him, His song was turned to joy; And he will never know Alas, the one who knew it! Never know He will never know Never know Never The rose was plucked when dusk was dim Beside a laughing boy Ha ha ha Ha ha ha beside a laughing boy a laughing boy This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Rose Family"Song 2 (extractable) from set Two by Frost
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked Allegretto. Another spare, short setting, like the other song in this set, but this song hangs low enough that, in the "low" key, a lower voice might have more success. High note is about a forte, but must sound easy for the sake of the text. Text Comments: The rose is a rose, And was always a rose, But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, And so's the plum, I suppose. The dear only knows what will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Rose Song"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "Andante cantando (con moto)". Repeated low A3 means singer should probably be pretty solid that low. Piano solo near the end. Beautiful. Text Comments: Is there a rose to wake at daylight and greet the land? Is there a rose? It needs your hand. Is there a song To dare the sunlight and bid rejoice? Is there a song? It needs your voice. Your hand and the sound of your voice. Is there a gown To rival moonlight With misty lace? Is there a gown? It needs your face. Your face, your voice, your hand. And you, will you understand That, like the rose, and like the song too, I wait for you. And like the gown I seek your face. Oh, you who were fashioned to crown A rose and a song and a gown. A rose and a song and a gown. A rose and a song and a gown. Here is the rose and here are you. See Marc Blitzstein: Songs (Sharp, Holvik, Blier) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 5/9/99. The contributor(s) heard the song. "The Runner"Song 5 (extractable) from set By the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter= 72. Marked "Moving, flowing, pushing forward." Ends with sprechstimme. Text Comments: On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner, He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs, He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs, With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Satyr"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/21/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Quick and sharp." Russell Platt calls it, "an intermezzo, rough and fast: the young bride's optimism has turned to satire. Hagen instructs the pianist to play "atop the keys," in the manner of a prancing debauch, and the harmony is astringent, except for a delicious and deliberate eleventh-chord cliché." Although the text and circumstances might suggest a painful setting, the emphasis in this short piece, while it does not neglect the pain, is more on the humor--almost catty, to my ear. Text Comments: Written in the diary of the same woman who wrote the text to "I Am Loved," set earlier in this cycle, only three years later: "For all his debaucherie he was a young god. A satyr, perhaps, but slim and so graceful, compelling even in his vulgarity. But now he's becoming fat, and there's something obscene about a fat satyr. And once his lips may have tasted of a secret and forbidden wild honey--now the complacent flavor of pot roast." See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/21/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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