Collected Song Cycles - High Voice and Piano

This lyric American master is celebrated in comprehensive collections of some of the greatest achievements in setting words to music in the 20th century. Fascinating, extensive essays by the composer give fresh insights into these masterworks.

• To Be Sung upon the Water - 8 songs on texts by William Wordsworth, for high voice, piano, and Bb clarinet & bass clarinet (one player; part is included)
• Letters from Composers - 7 songs based on letters from Puccini, Bach, Mozart, and others, for high voice and guitar
• Songs about Spring - 5 songs on texts of e.e. cummings, for soprano and piano
• Elizabethan Songs - 6 songs on Elizabeth poetry, for high voice and piano
• Miss Manners on Music - 7 songs on texts by Miss Manners (Judith Martin), for mezzo-soprano and piano

Table of Contents:

• SONGS ABOUT SPRING
  1. Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon
  2. Spring is like a Perhaps Hand
  3. In Just-Spring
  4. In Spring Comes
  5. When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground
• SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS
  1. Spring
  2. Sleep
  3. Winter
  4. Dirge
  5. Diaphenia
  6. Hymn
• LETTERS FROM COMPOSERS
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Franz Schubert
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Claude Debussy
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Robert Schumann
• TO BE SUNG UPON THE WATER
  1. Prologue: Shadow and Substance
  2. The Lake at Evening
  3. Music on the Water
  4. Fair is the Swan
  5. In Remembrance of Schubert
  6. Hymn Near the Rapids
  7. The Lake at Night
  8. Epilogue: De Profundis
• MISS MANNERS ON MUSIC
  1. Prologue
  2. Manners at a Concert
  3. Manners at the Ballet
  4. Manners for Contemporary Music
  5. Manners at a Church Recital
  6. Manners at the Opera
  7. Envoi

Publisher:	Boosey & Hawkes
Composer/Author:	Argento, Dominick
Catalog Number:	48019175
Pages:	162