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Catalog: Song Information: Page 7 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. "An Upward Look"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/29/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Nobile, con dignitą" half note = 54. Grand and powerful. Text Comments: O heart green acre sown with salt by the departing occupier lay down your gallant spears of wheat Salt of the earth each stellar pinch flung in blind defiance backwards Now takes its toll Up from its quieted quarry the lover colder an wiser hauling himself finds the world turning toys triumphs toxins into this vast facility the living come dearest to die in How did it happen in bright alternation minutely mirrored within the thinking of each and every mortal creature halves of a clue approaching earthlights Morning star evening star salt of the sky First the grave dissolving into dawn then the crucial recrystalizing from inmost depths of clear dark blue See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/29/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Anecdote of the Jar"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:50 Calm, mysterious. Text Comments: I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Angelique"Song 3 (extractable) from set Night Songs
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/11/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Moderato con moto" eighth note = 108. Piano has almost continuous sixteenth notes. First half of song is definitely high tessitura, then last half is middle tessitura. Hoiby's style is attractive, interesting, and expressive. Text Comments: Start of text: Have you seen Angelique, What way she went? A white robe she wore, A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore." More--Angelique is a ghost who "cannot find the dead." This entry contributed by G&K around 11/11/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Angels Are the Highest Form of Virtue"Song 1 (extractable) from set Cabaret Songs: Volume 4
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/26/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "Languorous". Short charming two page song. Text Comments: Angels are the highest form of virtue Saints are the very best of men Heroes are so strong they wouldn't hurt you And martyrs gladly die and die again But the birds, the birds I love the most because they're teeny-weeny This entry contributed by G&K around 4/26/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Annie"Song 1 (extractable) from set Three Apollinaire Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:30 Vocal line sits quite low--mainly stepwise motion; in three distinct sections. Text Comments: On the shores of Texas Between Mobile and Galveston there is A great garden filled with roses There is also a villa Which is one huge rose A woman passes often In the garden alone And when I pace the road edged with lime trees Our eyes meet As she is a Mennonite Her rose trees and her garments have no buttons My jacket's missing two That lady and I observe almost the same rite This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Answer"Song 6 (not extractable) from set By the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: improvisational piece, 20-60 seconds long, using the chromatic pitches within the range specified above. The composer writes this: "This concluding movement is improvised by the soprano in the sense that the elements of pitch, rhythm, etc., are chosen by the soprano after having assimilated the following guidelines for performance and spiritually/musically maintaining the poetic/musical spirit of the preceding settings, thus producing a relatively free, individual, personal statement--in the true spirit of Whitman--on the entire work." The vocal instructions are these: "Improvise a simple, introspective, non-dramatic, non-theatrical, selfless, unpretentious, unaffected, sincere melody (that is far less pedantic than these instructions read) syllabically to the words above, using only the pitches below: [chromatic pitches from Db4 to G4]" Text Comments: That you are here--that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, And you may contribute a verse. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Anthem for Doomed Youth"Song 3 (not extractable) from set Sing Me at Midnight
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/16/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: The first half of the song, before the mention of the candles, alternates between quasi recitative and "Allegro feroce" anger. Second half is Andante tranquillo with a walking bass of "O God, our hope in ages past". Text Comments:
What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries, no mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling to them from sad shires. This entry contributed by G&K around 9/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Anxiety"Song 8 (extractable) from set Bird by Bird
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 120: very fast runs for both flute and voice, and song obviously hangs quite high, even though it does not go above A5. voice and piano move in parallel thirds, then in parallel M7, the thirds again, then break apart... Text Comments: [vocalese] The sparrowhawk flies hard to stand in the air: something about direction lets us loose in to ease and slow grace. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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