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65 Songs: High Voice
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Related Works:
65 Songs: High Voice
65 Songs: Medium/Low Voice
Edited by Richard Walters
Note:
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Barber, we are proud to release this major new edition, which includes newly edited and engraved editions of the complete contents of Collected Songs and Ten Early Songs, plus many previously unpublished early songs. Manuscripts from the Library of Congress and other sources were consulted for all songs. The edition includes extensive historical information about each song, a lengthy and insightful article about Barber, and facsimiles of selected manuscripts.
Contents:
Songs Published During the Composer’s Lifetime
Three Songs, Op. 2
The Daisies
With rue my heart is laden
Bessie Bobtail
Three songs, Op. 10
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army
Four Songs, Op. 13
A Nun Takes the Veil
The Secrets of the Old
Sure on this shining night
Nocturne
Two Songs, Op. 18
The queen’s face on the summery coin
Monks and Raisins
Nuvoletta, Op.25
Mélodies Passagéres, Op. 27
Puisque tout passé
Un cygnet
Tombeau dans un parc
Le clocher chante
Départ
Hermit Songs, Op. 29
At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory
Church Bells at Night
St. Ita’s Vision
The Heavenly Banquet
The Crucifixion
Sea-Snatch
Promiscuity
The Monk and His Cat
The Praises of God
The Desire for Hermitage
Despite and Still, Op. 41
A Last Song
My Lizard (Wish for a Young Love)
In the Wilderness
Solitary Hotel
Despite and Still
Three Songs, Op. 45
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
A Green Lowland of Pianos
O boundless, boundless evening
Songs Published Posthumously
Ask me to rest
Au claire de la lune
Beggar’s Song
Fantasy in Purple
In the dark pinewood
La nuit
Love at the Door
Love’s Caution
Man
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
Music, when soft voices die
Night Wanderers
Of that so sweet imprisonment
Peace
Serenader
A Slumber Song of the Madonna
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Strings in the earth and air
There’s nae lark
Three songs: The words from Old England
Lady, when I behold the roses
An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him
Hey nonny no!
Thy Love
Two Poems of the Wind
Little Children of the Wind
Longing
Two Songs of Youth
Invocation to Youth
I never thought that youth would go
Watchers
Who carries corn and crown
65 Songs: High Voice
65 Songs: Medium/Low Voice
Edited by Richard Walters
Note:
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Barber, we are proud to release this major new edition, which includes newly edited and engraved editions of the complete contents of Collected Songs and Ten Early Songs, plus many previously unpublished early songs. Manuscripts from the Library of Congress and other sources were consulted for all songs. The edition includes extensive historical information about each song, a lengthy and insightful article about Barber, and facsimiles of selected manuscripts.
Contents:
Songs Published During the Composer’s Lifetime
Three Songs, Op. 2
The Daisies
With rue my heart is laden
Bessie Bobtail
Three songs, Op. 10
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army
Four Songs, Op. 13
A Nun Takes the Veil
The Secrets of the Old
Sure on this shining night
Nocturne
Two Songs, Op. 18
The queen’s face on the summery coin
Monks and Raisins
Nuvoletta, Op.25
Mélodies Passagéres, Op. 27
Puisque tout passé
Un cygnet
Tombeau dans un parc
Le clocher chante
Départ
Hermit Songs, Op. 29
At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory
Church Bells at Night
St. Ita’s Vision
The Heavenly Banquet
The Crucifixion
Sea-Snatch
Promiscuity
The Monk and His Cat
The Praises of God
The Desire for Hermitage
Despite and Still, Op. 41
A Last Song
My Lizard (Wish for a Young Love)
In the Wilderness
Solitary Hotel
Despite and Still
Three Songs, Op. 45
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
A Green Lowland of Pianos
O boundless, boundless evening
Songs Published Posthumously
Ask me to rest
Au claire de la lune
Beggar’s Song
Fantasy in Purple
In the dark pinewood
La nuit
Love at the Door
Love’s Caution
Man
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
Music, when soft voices die
Night Wanderers
Of that so sweet imprisonment
Peace
Serenader
A Slumber Song of the Madonna
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Strings in the earth and air
There’s nae lark
Three songs: The words from Old England
Lady, when I behold the roses
An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him
Hey nonny no!
Thy Love
Two Poems of the Wind
Little Children of the Wind
Longing
Two Songs of Youth
Invocation to Youth
I never thought that youth would go
Watchers
Who carries corn and crown
