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Catalog: Song Information: Page 71 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 Sobbing of the Bells"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: Andante. The piano part portrays funeral bells at several moments in the song. High Fb is approached and resolved with a Bb. Low A can be replaced by an ossia passage which takes the singer only down to a D4 instead. Late Romantic American tonality, like Barber, but with a distinctive sound. Piano part seems reasonable. Pardon the generic comments--if someone can summarize better and with more familiarity with the song, please do. Text Comments: Full text: The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death news ev'rywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the breezes wafted soft and low, ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing. (Or is it the plashing of tears? the measureless waters of human tears?) I see, just see, skyward, great cloud masses; Mournfully, slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing; With at times a people, (full well they know that message in the darkness, full well respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad reverberations.) The passionate toll and clang city to city, joining, sounding, passing, Those heart beats of a nation in the night. Recordings: unknown This entry contributed by G&K around 9/26/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Song of Moses"Song 10 (extractable) from set We Happy Few
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: "Rather fast--with joyous exaltation" Very tricky rhythmically, almost constantly alternating between 5/8 and 6/8. At such a fast speed, perhaps I should say extremely tricky. Requires more facility with a high E than most of the other songs in the cycle. Triumphant and joyful. Text Comments: The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious In power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. The depths have covered them: the earth swallowed them. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. He is my God, I will exalt him. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Song of the Chore (Canzone Rustica)"Song 4 (extractable) from set A Sarah Binks Songbook (The Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan)
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/1/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Allegro non troppo, con brio.
Text Comments:
(Sarah Binks, a fictional character, is the supposed author or this poem. The character and her poems lightly and gently satirize the "academic" mind and approach to life...as well as many other things, I'm sure) I sing a song of the simple chore, Of quitting the downy bed at four, And chipping ice from the stable door--Of the simple chore I sing Of the simple chore I sing To the forty below at break of day, To climbing up, and throwing down hay To cleaning out and carting away, a paean of praise I bring. Oh, it's time to milk of it's time to not, Oh, it's time for breakfast and time I got The pot of coffee in the coffeepot--I sing of the chore, "Hurray!" Oh, it's time for this and it's time for that, For mending unending and tending the brat, And it's time to turn in and put out the cat, Tomorrow's another day. I sing a song of the simple chore, Of quitting the downy bed at four, And chipping ice from the stable door--Tomorrow's another day, I sing of the simple chore: "Hip, hip hurray!"
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/1/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Streets of Laredo"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 4:40 Becoming increasingly busy towards the middle of the song and the young cowboy's remembrance of his glory days, returning at the close to the sparse, empty textures of the beginning. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said)"Song 6 (extractable) from set The Moon Songs
This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
A blend of tonality and modality. Soprano Rebekkah Graves said of the cycle, "I REALLY enjoyed it! Cheeky, and accessible without being simplistic, complex enough to be interesting without being absolutely impossible!"
Text Comments: American poet Vachel Lindsay (author of 'The Congo') composed a great number of moon poems, these texts are extracted from those poems. This entry contributed by Meredith Ryan Taylor around 5/7/00. The contributor(s) composed the song. "The Strong House"Song 4 (extractable) from set The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 9/28/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=66. eighth note subdivision predominant. Uneasiness grows throughout song, beginning with some dissonance and a quiet quarter beat at the end of every bar; builds to more alarm and stronger concern in music. Text Comments:
Our love is like a strong house Well roofed against the wind and rain See Winning Artists Series- American Song Recital (Wagner, Weldy) (Recordings) This entry contributed by G&K around 9/28/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Sun went Down"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: Optional notes make the lowest note only a C4. Marked "Grave". Quiet. Text Comments: Full text: The sun went down No man looked on; The earth and I alone were present at the majesty, He Triumphed and went on. The sun went up--No man looked on; The Earth and I and One--a nameless bird, A stranger, were witness for the Crown. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "The Talk Show"Song 3 (extractable) from set Cityscapes
This entry contributed by David Wolfson around 11/14/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: quarter=142, "with a vaudeville swing". Highish tessitura, with repeated and sustained F#4. Text Comments: "Don'tcha hate when that happens?" Said the talk show host To the teenage boy Who'd been hit by a bullet From a drug dealer's gun And was going to spend The rest of his life In a wheelchair. "Don'tcha hate when that happens? Don'tcha really, really hate when that Happens? Don't you? 'Cause I know I do." Dum dum dee dum dum dee deedle deedle dum Don't let it get under your skin. Dum dum dee dum dum dee deedle deedle dum Your skin shouldn't be that thin. Don'tcha hate don'tcha really, really hate 'Cause I know I do. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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