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Selected songs : voice & piano / Chester Biscardi.
LIBRA M1620 .B527 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Biscardi, Chester, composer.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, author.
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, author.
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980, author.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.
- Kaplan, Shirley, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Songs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Musical settings.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967--Musical settings.
- Sandburg, Carl.
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980--Musical settings.
- Rukeyser, Muriel.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997--Musical settings.
- Ginsberg, Allen.
- Harnick, Sheldon--Musical settings.
- Harnick, Sheldon.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Songs with piano.
- Operas--Excerpts--Vocal scores with piano.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Musical settings.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Vocal scores.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (xxi, 100 pages) : portrait ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Biscardi Music Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- English words.
- Contents:
- The gift of life (1990-1993). Mama never forgets her birds (1990) / [text by] Emily Dickinson
- Baby song of the four winds (1994) / [text by] Carl Sandburg
- Recovering (2000) / [text by] Muriel Rukseyer
- Guru (1995) / [text by] Allen Ginsberg
- Poet's aria from Tight-rope (1985) / [libretto by] Henry Butler
- Prayers of steel (1998) / [text by] Carl Sandburg
- Modern love songs (1997-2002). What a coincidence (1997) ; Someone new (1999) ; At any given moment (2002) / [lyrics by] William Zinsser
- The child comes every winter (1999; rev. 2017) / [lyrics by] William Zinsser
- Chez vous (1983; rev. 2007) / [text by] Sheldon Harnick
- Sailors & dreamers (2007-2010). You've been on my mind (2007) ; Play me a song (2008) ; I dance the tango (2010) ; It's time to feel alright now (2009) / [lyrics by] Shirley Kaplan
- Broken stars that go dark (2016) / [lyrics by] Shirley Kaplan.
- Notes:
- 5th work from a chamber opera; accompaniment arranged for piano.
- With a composer's preface, notes and texts, and biographical sketch in English.
- 1st and 2nd works for soprano or mezzo-soprano voice, 5th and 6th works for baritone voice, and all others for unspecified voice.
- Contains:
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Gift of life. Mama never forgets her birds.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Baby song of the four winds.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Recovering.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Guru.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Tight-rope. Poet's aria. Vocal score.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Prayers of steel.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. What a coincidence.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. Someone new.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. At any given moment.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Child comes every winter.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Chez vous.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. You've been on my mind.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. Play me a song.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. I dance the tango.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. It's time to feel alright now.
- Container of: Biscardi, Chester. Broken stars that go dark.
- ISBN:
- 0692046658
- 9780692046654
- OCLC:
- 1021721884
- Publisher Number:
- B48-18-1 Biscardi Music Press
- 48-18-1 Biscardi Music Press
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