| Other author/creator | Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. |
| Other author/creator | Nash, Thomas,1567-1601. |
| Other author/creator | Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619. |
| Other author/creator | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
| Other author/creator | Constable, Henry, 1562-1613. |
| Other author/creator | Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. |
| Other author/creator | Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
| Other author/creator | Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897. |
| Other author/creator | Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897. |
| Other author/creator | Frænkel, Knut, 1870-1897. |
| Other author/creator | Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. |
| Other author/creator | Martin, Judith, 1938- |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Songs about spring. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Elizabethan songs. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. From the diary of Virginia Woolf. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Andrée expedition. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Casa Guidi. Vocal score. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Miss Manners on music. |
| Included Work | Argento, Dominick. Catalogue raisonné as memoir. |
| Uniform title | Songs. Selections |
| Contents |
Songs about spring. Who knows if the moon's a balloon ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; In just-spring ; In spring comes ; When faces called flowers float out of the ground -- Six Elizabethan songs. Spring ; Sleep ; Winter ; Dirge ; Diaphenia ; Hymn -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf. The diary ; Anxiety ; Fancy ; Hardy's funeral ; Rome ; War ; Parents ; Last entry -- The Andrée expedition. Part one: In the air: Prologue ; The balloon rises ; Pride and ambition ; Dinner aloft ; The unforeseen problem ; The flight aborted ; Part two: On the ice: Mishap with a sledge ; The king's jubilee ; Illness and drugs ; Hallucinations ; Anna's birthday ; Epilogue ; Final words -- Casa Guidi. Casa Guidi ; The Italian cook and the English maid ; Robert Browning ; The death of Mr. Barrett ; Domesticity -- Miss Manners on music. Prologue ; Manners at a concert ; Manners at the ballet ; Manners for contemporary music ; Manners at a church recital ; Manners at the opera ; Envoi. |
| General note | For voice and piano; 5th song cycle originally for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. |
| General note | "The articles in this collection are excerpted ... from: Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life, by Dominick Argento." |
| General note | Includes biographical note on the composer (p. ii-iii), composer's pref. (p. vi-vii), and composer's comments preceding each song cycle. |
| General note | Authors of texts include E. E. Cummings (1st cycle), Thomas Nash, Samuel Daniel, Shakespeare, Henry Constable, and Ben Jonson (2nd cycle), Virginia Woolf (3rd cycle), Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and Knut Frænkel (4th cycle), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (5th cycle), and Judith Martin (6th cycle). |
| ISBN | 9790051933815 |
| UPC |
884088075255 |
| ISMN |
M051933815 |
| Publisher number | HL48019176 H. Leonard |
