Daron Aric Hagen songbook.

Author/creator Hagen, Daron, 1961- composer.
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoNew York : Carl Fischer, ©2002.
Description1 score (xi, 174 pages) : portrait, facsimiles ; 31 cm
Subjects

Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Larkin songs.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Letting go.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Love in a life.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Vera of Las Vegas. Doll's song; arranged.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Vera of Las Vegas. Vera's song; arranged.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Phantoms of myself.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Bandanna. Mona's prayer; arranged.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Muldoon songs.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Light fantastic. Sun of the sleepless; arranged.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Light fantastic. Night's paddock; arranged.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Heart of the stranger.
Included WorkHagen, Daron, 1961- Figments.
Uniform titleVocal music. Selections
Contents Larkin songs (2000): song cycle for voice and piano on poetry of Philip Larkin. Going -- Coming -- Interlude #1: fiction and the reading public -- Counting -- 'None of the books have time' -- 'Within the dream you said' -- Talking in bed -- Interlude #2: 'to write one song, I said' -- 'Morning at last: there is snow' -- The white palace -- Letting go (2002): song cycle for voice and piano. A suite of appearances (Strand) -- Ferry me across the water (Rosetti) -- Ghost letter (McCann) -- 'I'll sing a song to my love' (Hagen) -- Prayer to sparrow in two seasons (Skinner) -- The second law (Sandy) -- Psalm 150 -- Love in a life (1981-1998): song cycle for voice and piano. Love in a life (Browning) -- Congedo (Alsadir) -- Ample make this bed (Dickinson) -- Stanzas for music (Byron) -- The waking (Roethke) -- To you (Whitman) -- To you (Whitman) -- Love (Lodge) -- From the nightmare cabaret opera Vera of Las Vegas (1996). Doll's song -- Vera's song -- Phantoms of myself (2000): song cycle for voice and piano on poetry of Susan Griffin. I wake thinking of myself as a man -- A story -- Confession -- Her sadness runs beside her like a horse -- 'Quiet, quiet heart' -- Absence -- 'I wake to your gestures' -- From the opera Bandanna (1998). Mona's prayer -- Muldoon songs (1989): song cycle for voice and piano on poetry of Paul Muldoon. The waking father -- Thrush -- Blemish -- Mink -- Bran -- Vico -- Holy Thursday -- From the cantata Light fantastic (1999). Sun of the sleepless (Byron) -- Night's paddock (Harrison) -- The heart of the stranger (1983-1999): song cycle for voice and piano. Symmetry (Codrescu) -- Evening twilight (Baudelaire) -- It weeps in my heart (Verlaine) -- To nobodaddy (Blake) -- Dawlish fair (Keats) -- Under the night sky (Roberts) -- O, when I was in love with you (Houseman) -- An irony (Hagen) -- Specimen case (Whitman) -- Song (Roethke) -- Figments (2000): song cycle for voice and piano on poetry of Alice Wirth Gray. Gravity -- Why we have cats -- The end of daylight savings time -- Zoo prepares to adopt metric system -- Lines after Marianne Moore -- Deer in mist and almonds -- The poetry of sausage: Morcilla.
General noteSong cycles and excerpts from operas and a cantata; for voice and piano.
General noteIncludes foreword by Paul Sperry, introduction by Carrie Culver, afterword (including notes on the songs) by the composer, and bibliography (pages 171-174).
LanguageEnglish words; texts from various sources.
ISBN0825849160
Publisher numberVF3 Carl Fischer

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks M1621.H344 D37 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold
Music Music Stacks M1621.H344 D37 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold