Research Catalog

Title

50 collected songs / Ned Rorem ; compiled by Richard Walters ; consultant, Kurt Ollmann.

Author

Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.

Publication

[United States] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard Corp., [2008]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walters, Richard
• Ollmann, Kurt.

Description

1 score (156 pages); 31 cm

Uniform Title

Songs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Songs.
• Fifty collected songs

Subjects

• Songs (Low voice) with piano
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano

Note

• Mostly transposed keys.
• Composer's note dated May 2008.
• Includes 6 previously unpublished songs.

Contents

Absalom / Paul Goodman -- Alleluia -- Are you the new person? / Walt Whitman -- A birthday : from Women's voices / Christina Rossetti -- Catullus, on the burial of his brother / translated by Aubrey Beardsley -- A child asleep in its own life / Wallace Stevens -- Chromatic fantasy / Anthony Hecht -- Early in the morning / Robert Hillyer -- Clouds / Paul Goodman -- Conversation / Elizabeth Bishop -- The end / Dana Gioia -- For Susan / Paul Goodman -- Ferry me across the water : from The Nantucket songs / Christina Rossetti -- A glimpse : from Evidence of things not seen / Walt Whitman -- He thinks upon his death : from Evidence of things not seen/ Julien Green ; English version by Ned Rorem -- I strolled across an open field / Theodore Roethke -- I will always love you / Frank O'Hara -- A journey / Andrew Glaze -- Jeanie with the light brown hair / Stephen Foster ; arranged by Ned Rorem -- The land of fear / Demetrios Capetanakis -- Little elegy / Elinor Wylie -- Look down, fair moon / Walt Whitman -- The lordly Hudson / Paul Goodman -- Love / Thomas Lodge -- On a singing girl / Elinor Wylie -- Love in a life / Robert Browning -- Nantucket : from Nantucket songs / William Carlos Williams -- The nightingale / [anon.], about 1500 A.D. -- O do not love too long / William Butler Yeats -- On a little bird / Martin Armstrong -- Orchids / Theodore Roethke -- Philomel / Richard Barnefield -- Poem for F. / Edouard Roditi -- Psalm 150 : from Cycle of holy songs -- The serpent / Theodore Roethke -- Rain in spring / Paul Goodman -- Shelley's vision / Herman Melville -- The sick wife : from Evidence of things not seen / Jane Kenyon -- Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman -- Spring / Kenneth Koch -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Such beauty as hurts to behold / Paul Goodman -- That shadow, my likeness : from Whitman cantata / Walt Whitman -- To a young girl / W.B. Yeats -- Visits to St. Elizabeths / Elizabeth Bishop -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- What if some little pain-- / Edmund Spenser -- While Sodom was occupied / David Bergman -- You, the young rainbow / Edith Sitwell.

ISBN

• 9781423441649
• 1423441648

LCCN

• 884088156411
• 9790051933969

OCLC

• ocn230813869
• 230813869
• SCSB-5443755

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries