| Edition |
Medium/low voice. |
| Description |
1 score (xxv, 271 pages) ; 31 cm |
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score |
| Medium of Performance |
medium voice 1 piano 1 2 |
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low voice 1 piano 1 2 |
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singer 2 piano 1 3 |
| Language |
Staff notation. |
| Note |
Translations by Peter Pears and Elizabeth Mayer. Texts by Chinese poets translated by Arthur Waley. |
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Includes historical and program notes. |
| Contents |
Birds / Hilaire Belloc -- A charm of lullabies, op. 41. A cradle song / William Blake ; The highland balou / Robert Burns ; Sephestia's lullaby / Robert Greene ; A charm / Thomas Randolph ; Nurse's song / John Philip -- Three songs from This way to the tomb. Evening ; Morning ; Night / Ronald Duncan -- Fish in the unruffled lakes. To lie flat on the back ; Night covers up the rigid land ; Sun shines down ; Fish in the unruffled lakes ; What's in your mind ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden -- Holy sonnets of John Donne, op. 35. Oh, my blacke soule! ; Batter my heart ; O might those sighes and teares ; Oh, to vex me ; What if this present ; Since she whom I loved ; At the round earth's imagined corners ; Thou hast made me ; Death, be not proud / John Donne -- On this island, op. 11. Let the florid music praise! ; Now the leaves are falling fast ; Seascape ; Nocturne ; As it is, plenty / W.H. Auden -- Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, op. 61. Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens / Friedrich Hölderlin ; English translation by Elizabeth Mayer and Peter Pears -- Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo, op. 22. Sonetto XVI: Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro ; Sonetto XXXI: A che più debb 'io mai l'intensa voglia ; Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume ; Sonetto LV: Tu sa' chi 'io so, signior mie, che tu sai ; Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume ; Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna ; Sonetto XXVI: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede / Michaelangelo -- Songs from the Chinese, op. 58. Big chariot ; Old lute ; Autumn wind ; Herd-boy ; Depression ; Dance song / translated by Arthur Waley ; transcribed for piano by Richard Walters -- Winter words, op. 52. At day-close in November ; Midnight on the great western ; Wagtail and baby ; Little old table ; Choirmaster's burial ; Proud songsters ; At the railway station, Upway ; Before life and after / Thomas Hardy -- Cut from Winter words. If it's ever spring again ; Children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy -- Two Ballads (duet). Mother comfort / Montagu Slater ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden. |
| Language |
English, German, and Italian words; some printed as text preceding score. |
| Subject |
Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Songs (Medium voice) with piano. |
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Songs (Low voice) with piano.
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Songs (Low voice) with piano. |
| Genre/Form |
Song cycles.
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Song cycles.
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| Subject |
Vocal duets with piano.
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Vocal duets with piano. |
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Song cycles. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Songs.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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| Added Author |
Walters, Richard, editor, arranger of music.
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Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, translator.
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Mayer, Elizabeth, translator.
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Waley, Arthur, translator.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Birds.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Charm of lullabies.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
This way to the tomb. Evening.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
This way to the tomb. Morning.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
This way to the tomb. Night.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
To lie flat on the back.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Night covers up the rigid land.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Sun shines down.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Fish in the unruffled lakes.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
What's in your mind?
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Underneath the abject willow, voice, piano.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Holy sonnets of John Donne.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
On this island.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Hölderlin Fragmente.
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Container of (expression): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Hölderlin Fragmente. English.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Sonnets of Michelangelo.
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Container of (expression): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Songs from the Chinese; arranged.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Winter words.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
If it's ever spring again.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Children and Sir Nameless.
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Container of (work): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Ballads, voices (2), piano.
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| Added Title |
Songs. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86140905
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60 songs |
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Sixty songs |
| ISBN |
1423429761 |
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9781423429760 |
| Standard No. |
884088135881 |
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M051933983 |
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9790051933983 |
| Music No. |
HL48019419 Hal Leonard Corporation |
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