Concert songs : for medium/low voice and piano

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Concert songs : for medium/low voice and piano

William Bolcom

Edward B. Marks music company and Bolcom music, c1995 , Hal Leonard corporation [distributor]

  • v. 1 (1975-2000)
  • v. 2 (2001-2012)

Printed Music

Other Title

Volume 1, 25 songs for medium / low voice and piano

Volume 2, 46 songs for medium / low voice and piano

Uniform Title

Bolcom, William -- Songs. Selections

Bolcom, William -- I will breathe a mountain

Bolcom, William -- Open house. Serpent. Vocal score

Bolcom, William -- Songs of innocence and of experience. Songs of innocence. Cradle song. Vocal score

Bolcom, William -- Songs of innocence and of experience. Songs of experience. Nurse's song. Vocal score

Bolcom, William -- Donald Hall songs. Vocal score

Bolcom, William -- Tillinghast duo

Bolcom, William -- Camp Shadywillow

Bolcom, William -- Digital wonder watch

Bolcom, William -- Junction, on a warm afternoon

Bolcom, William -- Mary

Bolcom, William -- Vaslav's song

Bolcom, William -- Villanelle

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Note

Some songs arranged for voice and piano: The serpent (from Open house) originally for tenor and chamber orchestra; A cradle song (from Songs of innocence and experience) originally for soprano and orchestra; The Nurse's song (from Songs of innocence and of experience) originally for contralto and orchestra; Three Donald Hall songs originally for medium voice, flute, clarinet, horn, cello, and piano

English words

Staff notation

Many songs are published here for the first time

Includes notes on the songs, performance and notation, and biographical notes in English

Contents of Works

  • v.1 I will breathe a mountain: Pity me not because the light of day
  • How to swing those obbligatos around
  • The crazy woman
  • Just once
  • Never more will the wind
  • The sage
  • O to be a dragon
  • The bustle in a house
  • I saw eternity
  • Night practice
  • The fish
  • from Open house: The serpent
  • from Songs of innocence and of experience: A cradle song
  • Nurse's song
  • Three Donald Hall songs: Horse song
  • O cheese
  • Wheel of the oxcart
  • Tillinghast duo: Costa del nowhere
  • Table
  • Songs not from a cycle or set: Camp Shadywillow
  • The digital wonder watch
  • The junction, on a warm afternoon
  • Mary
  • Vaslav's song
  • Villanellle
  • v.2 Chestnuts: Tears, idle tears
  • So sweet love seemed
  • In dreams, Unhappy
  • The day is done
  • From the diary of Sally Hemings: Part one: "They say I was born old..."
  • "Martha and Maria..."
  • "White waves."
  • "Paris, c'est la ville vivante."
  • "The master brings music to his sitting room..."
  • "I was carrying a tray when he called me."
  • Part two: "They say I was born old..."
  • "Come back to America."
  • "Back home at Monticello..."
  • "Purple hyacinth begins to bloom."
  • "My sister ghost..."
  • Part three: "Peonies, a perfume box."
  • "Mister, our child is frail."
  • "A dark winter blue-black evening..."
  • "Old shoe! old shoe!"
  • Part four: "A sild man home from the woods."
  • "Papers!"
  • "Night watch till early morn."
  • "If I take my freedom..."
  • "Dear children..."
  • From the hawthorn tree: The dream
  • The hawthorn tree
  • Chagrin
  • Swimming aria
  • Laura sonnets: Sonetto 5
  • Sonetto 90
  • Sonetto 267
  • Sonetto 286
  • Sonetto 292
  • Old addresses: Lady death
  • The next table
  • Histrion
  • Ballad of the landlord
  • The embrace
  • Africa
  • To my old addresses
  • Songs not from a cycle or set: Billy in the darbies
  • Gettysburg: July 1, 1863
  • The jersey side
  • Rhyme
  • September 1, 1939
  • Sonnet 29

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