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Catalog: Song Information: Page 70 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 Sea"Song 3 (extractable) from set Enough Rope
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "gently rocking". Spare accompaniment. Leap from A4 to sustained B5. Text Comments: Who lay against the sea, and fled, Who lightly loved the wave, Shall never know when he is dead, A cool and murmurous grave. But in a shallow pit shall rest for all eternity, And bear the earth upon the breast That once had worn the sea. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Shade of Orpheus"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Premiered by soprano Leda Asher Yager with members of the Honolulu Symphony, October 1995 and on the Mirror of the New 2 Festival (Honolulu), February 1997. Optional notes bring the high note of the piece to a B5. Hopefully we will get a recording of this piece soon as it is far too big a work for me to quickly summarize (19 minutes). Text Comments:
The full story of Orpheus, as translated into the English by Allen Mandelbaum from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The following is the first quarter of the piece's text: See The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Poetry) This entry contributed by G&K around 3/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Shroud"Song 4 (extractable) from set Night Songs
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/11/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Moderato" quarter = 72. The narrator talks about setting stitches "in even rows" and the piano part seems to illustrate that to some degree. Voice part has higher tessitura in middle of song. Nice legato lines. Text Comments: Text is short. This is the beginning: "I make my shroud but no one knows, So shimm'ring fine it is and fair, With stitches set in even rows." more This entry contributed by G&K around 11/11/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Sick Man of Aber Cuawg"Song 2 (extractable) from set Welsh Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Text Comments: To sit high on a hill is the wish of my heart, yet it does not rouse me: my journey's short, my little homestead's empty. The breeze is sharp, cowherds are ragged: whilst trees put on the fair colour of summer, I am very sick today. I'm not light-footed, I keep no retinue, I can't go visiting: whilst it pleases the cuckoo, let it sing. At Aber Cuawg cuckoos sing on flowering branches: clamorous cuckoo, may it sing on. At Aber Cuawg cuckoos sing on flowering branches: wretched sick man who hears them all the time! At Aber Cuawg cuckoos sing: bitter it is to my mind that one who once heard them hears them no more. High up above the splendid oak I heard the voice of birds: o loud cuckoo, we remember those we love! This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Silver Swan"Song 4 (extractable) from set Five Early (and often naughty) Odes
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/26/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Still and tranquil" "always legato" half = 46. Somewhat dissonant and chromatic but less challengingly so than some of the others in this cycle. Piano starts ppp, voice p; gradual crescendo to f as voice approaches and attains climactic E4; then quick decrescendo back to ppp as voice descends down to E3. Text Comments: "The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approach'd, unlock'd her silent throat, Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: "Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise." This entry contributed by G&K around 11/26/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Silver Swan"Song 3 (extractable) from set Canzonettas
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/18/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Slowly, sadly". vocal F#5 is soft but this song is generally lower in tessitura than the other two. Text Comments: The silver swan Who living had no note, When death approached, Unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, And sung no more. "Farewell, all joys, Farewell,--Oh death Come close mine eyes. More geese than swans now live, More fools than wise." This entry contributed by G&K around 5/18/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Six Don'ts"Song 7 (extractable) from set Boy Mad
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 0:10 A second setting - less panicked and prickly than the first. Text Comments: The six Don'ts don't don't don't don't don't don't This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Six Don'ts"Song 3 (extractable) from set Boy Mad
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 0:10 The first setting - spat out, angry, proscriptive. Text Comments: The six Don'ts don't don't don't don't don't don't This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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