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Catalog: Song Information: Page 21 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. "Fall is a Crazy Dancer"Song 5 (not extractable) from set Spring Thunder
This entry contributed by CounterPoint Musical Services around 9/16/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: marked "As fast as cleanly possible (rhythmic!)". Frequent meter changes within an active dance portray the text (and the title!). Expanded tonality with some difficult-to-hear pitches and leaps. Voice hits and sustains low A3 twice, both at mezzo-piano to piano volumes. Sustained high C closes the song, calling for a sforzando (actually sffzp) that then crescendos back to fortissimo (actually fff). Looks to be a very difficult song for both singer and flutist, but quite satisfactorily dramatic and exciting. Text Comments: Fall is a crazy dancer--Fall is a crazy dancer, dancer, Fall is a crazy, crazy dancer--Look, how he whirls in leaves; How happy Death is to be stamping with him--There on the stricken body of grass of mortal green. Fall is a crazy dancer--Fall is a crazy dancer, dancer, Fall is a crazy, crazy dancer--Down with it all: he dances, Down with it all he dances, dances, dances, And look, she laughs in his arms; Wicked, the bright wind in funeral music For long days remember? And hot dark and flowers. Death is a wild partner, partner, Death is a wild partner, partner; Death is a wild partner, partner; But look, she is not young. She is the eldest daughter; She has danced forever, without wedding any warm one. Fall is a crazy dancer. This entry contributed by G&K around 9/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Fancy (February, 1927)"Song 3 (not extractable) from set From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/12/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Allegretto capriccioso" (eighth = 132) begins the song but tempo and meter change frequently, once a measure at some points. Seems a particularly tricky, if short and clever, song. Tessitura on the middle to high side of the range. Text Comments: Full (very short) text: Why not invent a new kind of play; as for instance: Woman thinks. He does. Organ plays. She writes. She writes. They say: She sings. Night speaks. They miss They miss" Recordings: 4 recordings at Amazon.com. The one linked below is a special order at Amazon (there are two that are available for almost immediate shipping) but the one below is Janet Baker's recording and includes some RealAudio clips you can hear over the net. See Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Baker, Isepp) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 11/12/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Fantasy"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by 14 around 3/7/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Tempo: quarter note =60 Difficult piano accomp. Approx. 3min Text Comments: A mysterious quality throughout the song. "Always to me unknown may be love that I seek and do not find/ But though you flee, sweet fantasy and I who follow long behind/ Farther than any I shall run after a fair illusion." This entry contributed by 14 around 3/7/99. The contributor(s) performed the song. "Female, G"Song 5 (not extractable) from set Songs of Madness and Sorrow
This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Similar texture to second song, minus the occasional winds. Vocal line is almost monotone, moving gradually from F# to G# to A to, finally, Bb. Only one note breaks the monotony: a jump from the A to a quick D# on the word devil...what do you know, a tritone! :-) Text Comments: Admitted June 20th, 1901. Resident of Jackson County. Age 34. American. Married. Seven children. Poor.... Melancholia--fear of some injury by the devil or by some other person. Insomnia.... Filthy. Emaciated, extreme weakness--Tremor--very religious.... This entry contributed by G&K around 2/21/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Few Little English ("Jimmy's Moll")"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/8/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Jazzy, musical theatre style with some harmonic surprises. Completed (and in fact mostly written) by Leonard Lehrman. Text Comments: When I first came over on a boat from Dover I was just a rover but I knew ev'ry trick. On the boat it was funny: strangers call'd me "honey," Then they gave me money I got rich very quick. Then I met Jimmy and Jimmy said "gimme!" and I gave him all I had. That was Chicago, and you know Chicago. Well, he's a Chicago lad. Jimmy's not in bus'ness, not exactly bus'ness, kind of monkey bus'ness. But he makes lots of cash and I always like that. Then he's suddenly flat and we have to eat hash. I meet the landlord, and that's where my tricks come in. Plizz--I speak few little English. I'm speaking only very little few English since I am in this land I no understand. Well it seems my Jimmy robb'd a second story in the territory of a man nam'd Malone. And it seems Malone's mob they had plann'd the whole job but Jimmy's a big snob So he went on his own. He brought me two mink coats and cash enough to sink boats and I felt pretty gay. But he only stopp'd to kiss me and tell how he'll miss me, he's sorry but he can't stay. When he's gone I sit there just a little lonely. I love Jimmy only and now Jimmy's away. So what else can I say? Suddenly! there's a terrible din and Malone rushes in, busts in the doors and says "Where is dat punk of yours!?" Plizz--I speak few little English. I'm only speaking English a couple month or so. Honest--I don't know. Very soon my Jimmy sends a message to me: "Ev'rything's set, baby! Hop a train to you know!" So I put my things on, all my cute paste rings on, and my heart has wings on as I holler "Hello!" Two dozen G-men, all big heavy he-men, surround me from near and far. I think, "O glory, I'll tell them a story, how wretched and poor we are." "My wallpaper's crackin' My bed's got no back in, pretty curtains lackin', There's no lock on the door; it's the very top floor. I'm so tired at night as I climb up each flight!" They say, "Sister, where you go you won't have to climb no more." Please--I speak few little English but now it seems my English is just enough to know, Okay, boys, let's go. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/8/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Fife Tune (6/8) for 6 Platoon, 308th I.T.C."Song 3 (extractable) from set We Happy Few
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Andante amabile. Light marching tune, with the piano playing a fife tune as accompaniment. Chromatically shifts gears several times but fairly standard tonality otherwise. The final thought of the poem decrescendos to piano, as if the soldier is fading away from the happy picture he has painted. Text Comments: One morning in spring We marched from Devizes All shapes and all sizes Like beads on a string, But yet with a swing We trod the blue metal And full of high fettle we started to sing. She ran down the stair A twelve-year-old darling And laughing and calling she tossed her bright hair; Then silent to stare At the men flowing past her These were all she could master Adoring her there. It's seldom I'll see A sweeter or prettier; I doubt we'll forget her In two years or three, And lucky he'll be She takes for a lover While we are far over the treacherous sea. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Filling in the Dots"Song 4 (extractable) from set Bird by Bird
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter = 72; very fast motion in flute. Short song with vocal interjections around more prominent flute part. Text Comments: Pigeons, thirty-five in a speed, break over the lombardies just so as, missing, to outline the row. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Fires in the Desert"Song 9 (extractable) from set First there was light
This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Timing ca. 2'15"
Text Comments: The poem deals with the destruction of the world by fire and the dream of a new world, with some Native American imagery. Four songs in the cycle use Native imagery and may be extracted as a separate cycle.[1,3,7,9] This entry contributed by Jeffrey Ryan around 10/17/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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