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Catalog: Song Information: Page 81 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. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"Song 2 (extractable) from set Three by the Roadside
This entry contributed by G&K around 6/20/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: a moderate tempo. Very dissonant; a challenge for both singer and listener, but rewarding. Chord clusters used for one passage. Large dynamic contrasts. The seemingly academic dissonance is certainly connected with the text (below). When the narrator views the mystic night the harmonies become somewhat less dissonant and more quintal. Text Comments: The narrator, upon hearing a "learn'd astronomer" describe the stars using scientific means, becomes "tired and sick," and wanders outside to be placated and even awed by the mystic night and the silent stars. Recordings: none? This entry contributed by G&K around 6/20/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "where does he wander?"Song 10 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "With childlike simplicity." dotted quarter = 66. A pretty song, about 0:25, never louder than piano. Flowing bass pattern. Text Comments: A parent watching a child chasing dragonflies. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "while I turned my head"Song 6 (extractable) from set haiku
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Simply." "gently." "lyrically." quarter = 48-54. About 0:40. It portrays the text beautifully. No technical challenges for either performer but legato and interpretive skills. Text Comments: Subject to many interpretations, perhaps. About a traveler just passed who "melted to mist" when the narrator turned his/her head. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/14/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Whispers of Heavenly Death"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/26/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Adagio; molto legato sempre. Warm, sweet & sad. High Eb5 must be relatively soft at times. Otherwise not technically challenging for piano or voice. Song ends with singer reciting end of poem (spoken, not sung). Late American Romantic style more than 20th C, but where do you draw the line? Text Comments: Full text: Whispers of heavenly death murmured I hear; Labial gossip of night--sibilant chorals; Footsteps gently ascending--mystical half-dimmed saddened far off star appearing and disappearing. [following is recited, not sung:] Some parturition rather--some solemn immortal birth: On the frontiers, to eyes impenetrable Some soul is passing over. Recordings: unknown This entry contributed by G&K around 9/26/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Who Will Believe My Verse"Song 1 (extractable) from set Love to Madness
This entry contributed by Rich Caruso around 11/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
melodic, dramatic
harmonically challenging
tonal
Text Comments: The lyric for this piece is the Shakespeare sonnet number 17, 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 anonymous around 11/7/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Why Did You Go?"
This entry contributed by ECS Publishing around 12/28/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: a capella. "Straightforward and simple" quarter = c. 60. segues into the next song, which in turn segues into the next, making a three song group. Text Comments: why did you go little fourpaws? you forgot to shut your big eyes. where did you go/ like little kittens are all the leaves which open in the rain. little kittens who are called spring, is what we stroke maybe asleep? do you know or maybe did something go away ever so quietly when we weren't looking? See Songs by Daron Hagen (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 12/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Wild Nights"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: "Con fuoco" One of the longer songs; more involved piano part than many of Bacon's other Dickinson settings. Piano postlude. Text Comments: Full text: Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be our luxury! Futile the winds to a heart in port, Done with the compass, Done with the chart. Rowing ion Eden! Ah! The sea! Might I but moor tonight in thee. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Wild Nights"
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=168 with rubato. Perhaps the highest tessitura of this set. Text Comments: Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be our luxury! Futile the winds to a heart in port, Done with the compass, Done with the chart. Rowing ion Eden! Ah! The sea! Might I but moor tonight in thee. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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