Collected Song Cycles - Medium/Low 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. The Medium/Low Voice edition includes the first published transpositions of Songs about Spring and Six Elizabethan Songs.

Table of Contents:

• 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
• CASA GUIDI
  1. Casa Guidi
  2. The Italian Cook and the English Maid
  3. Robert Browning
  4. The Death of Mr. Barrett
  5. Domesticity
• PART TWO: ON THE ICE
  1. Mishap with a Sledge
  2. The King's Jubilee
  3. Illness and Drugs
  4. Hallucinations
  5. Anna's Birthday
  6. Epilogue
  7. Final Words
• THE ANDREE EXPEDITION: PART ONE: IN THE AIR:
  1. Prologue
  2. The Balloon Rises
  3. Pride and Ambition
  4. Dinner Aloft
  5. The Unforeseen Problem
  6. The Flight Aborted
• FROM THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
  1. The Diary
  2. Anxiety
  3. Fancy
  4. Hardy's Funeral
  5. Rome
  6. War
  7. Parents
  8. Last Entry
• SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS
  1. Spring
  2. Sleep
  3. Winter
  4. Dirge
  5. Diaphenia
  6. Hymn
• 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

Publisher:	Boosey & Hawkes
Composer/Author:	Argento, Dominick
Catalog Number:	48019176
Pages:	240