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High voice. |
| Description |
1 score (vii, 157 p.) + 1 part (8 p.) : port. ; 31 cm. |
| Note |
For voice and piano; 3rd song cycle for voice and guitar; 4th for voice, bass clarinet and piano. |
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Compilation of five song cycles originally published separately. |
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"The articles in this collection are excerpted ... from: Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life, by Dominick Argento." |
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Includes biographical note on the composer (p. ii-iii), composer's pref. (p. vi-vii), and composer's comments preceding each song cycle. |
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Authors of texts include E.E. Cummings (1st cycle), Thomas Nash, Samuel Daniel, Shakespeare, Henry Constable, and Ben Jonson (2nd cycle), Wordsworth (4th cycle), and Judith Martin (5th cycle). |
| Contents |
Songs about spring. Who knows if the moon's a balloon ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; In just-spring ; In spring comes ; When faces called flowers float out of the ground -- Six Elizabethan songs. Spring ; Sleep ; Winter ; Dirge ; Diaphenia ; Hymn -- Letters from composers. Frédéric Chopin ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Franz Schubert ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; Claude Debussy ; Giacomo Puccini ; Robert Schumann -- To be sung upon the water. Prologue: Shadow and substance ; The lake at evening ; Music on the water ; Fair is the swan ; In remembrance of Schubert ; Hymn near the rapids ; The lake at night ; Epilogue: De profundis -- Miss Manners on music. Prologue ; Manners at a concert ; Manners at the ballet ; Manners for contemporary music ; Manners at a church recital ; Manners at the opera ; Envoi. |
| Subject |
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Musical settings.
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Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601 -- Musical settings.
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Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619 -- Musical settings.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Musical settings.
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Constable, Henry, 1562-1613 -- Musical settings.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Musical settings.
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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 -- Musical settings.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Musical settings.
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 -- Musical settings.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Musical settings.
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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 -- Musical settings.
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Puccini, Giacomo, 1712-1781 -- Musical settings.
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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 -- Musical settings.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Musical settings.
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Martin, Judith, 1938- -- Musical settings.
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Songs (High voice) with piano -- Scores.
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Songs (High voice) with guitar -- Scores.
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Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble -- Scores and parts.
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Song cycles -- Scores.
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| Added Author |
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
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Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.
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Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Constable, Henry, 1562-1613.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
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Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
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Puccini, Giacomo, 1712-1781.
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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
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Martin, Judith, 1938-
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Argento, Dominick.
Songs about spring.
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Argento, Dominick.
Elizabethan songs.
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Argento, Dominick.
Letters from composers.
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Argento, Dominick.
To be sung upon the water.
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Argento, Dominick.
Miss Manners on music.
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Argento, Dominick.
Catalogue raisonné as memoir.
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| Added Title |
Songs. Selections
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| Standard No. |
884088075248 |
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M051933808 |
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9790051933808 |
| Music No. |
HL48019175 H. Leonard |
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