Vote for Names!

Description

• Composers: Robert Ward (1917-2013), David Diamond (1915-2005), John Woods Duke (1899-1984), Charles Ives (1874-1954), George Walker (1922-2018), Richard Bales (1915-1998), William Flanagan (1923-1969), Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), Lee Hoiby (1926-2011), Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991), Ned Rorem (1923-2022), Morten Lauridsen (1943-)
• Editor: Paul Sperry
• Instrumentation: Piano, Voice, High Voice, Medium Voice
• Binding:
• Work Language: English
• UPC: 680160429233
• Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: 72

Description

Peer-Southern’s 20th Century American Songbook

• Songs by Richard Bales “Ozymandias”
• David Diamond “For and Old Man”
• John Duke “Acquainted with the Night” and “hist…whist”
• William Flanagan “The Upside-down Man”
• Lee Hoiby “A Christmas Song” and “The River-merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
• Charles Ives “Vote for Names!”
• Morten Lauridsen “As Birds Come Nearer” and “When Frost Moves Fast”
• Wallingford Riegger “Ye Banks and Braes o’Bonnie Doon”
• Ned Rorem “the Silver Swan”
• Elie Siegmeister “Lonely Star”
• Virgil Thomson “The Bell Doth Toll” and “Take O Take Those Lips Away”
• George Walker “Nocturne”
• and Robert Ward “Sorrow of Mydath”

compiled by Paul Sperry.

Works:

• Bales: Ozymandias (1941)
• Diamond: For an Old Man (1943)
• Diamond: The Millenium (1960)
• Duke: Acquainted with the Night (1950)
• Duke: hist…whist (1952)
• Flanagan: The Upside-Down Man (1962)
• Hoiby: A Christmas Song (1974)
• Hoiby: The River-Merchant’s Wife (1962)
• Ives: Vote for Names! Names! Names! (1912)
• As Birds Come Nearer, No. 2 from Lauridsen: A Winter Come
• When Frost Moves Fast, No. 1 from Lauridsen: A Winter Come
• Riegger: Ye Banks and Braes o’Bonnie Doon (1910)
• Rorem: The Silver Swan (1949)
• Siegmeister: Lonely Star (1950)
• Thomson: The Bell Doth Toll (1955)
• Thomson: Take, O Take Those Lips Away, No. 2 from Shakespeare Songs (1957)
• Walker: Nocturne (1983)
• Ward: Sorrow of Mydath (1939)