| Other author/creator | Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. |
| Other author/creator | Nash, Thomas,1567-1601. |
| Other author/creator | Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619. |
| Other author/creator | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
| Other author/creator | Constable, Henry, 1562-1613. |
| Other author/creator | Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. |
| Other author/creator | Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. |
| Other author/creator | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. |
| Other author/creator | Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. |
| Other author/creator | Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. |
| Other author/creator | Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. |
| Other author/creator | Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. |
| Other author/creator | Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. |
| Other author/creator | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. |
| Other author/creator | Martin, Judith, 1938- |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Songs about spring. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Elizabethan songs. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Letters from composers. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. To be sung upon the water. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Miss Manners on music. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Catalogue raisonné as memoir. |
| Uniform title | Songs. Selections |
| 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. |
| General note | For voice and piano; 3rd song cycle for voice and guitar; 4th for voice, clarinet/bass clarinet and piano. |
| General note | Compilation of five song cycles originally published separately. |
| General note | "The articles in this collection are excerpted ... from: Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life, by Dominick Argento." |
| General note | Includes biographical note on the composer (p. ii-iii), composer's pref. (p. vi-vii), and composer's comments preceding each song cycle. |
| General note | 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). |
| ISBN | 9790051933808 |
| UPC |
884088075248 |
| ISMN |
M051933808 |
| Publisher number | HL48019175 H. Leonard |
