Copland, Aaron - Art Songs and Arias

Art Songs and Arias

This collection of 25 songs and arias draws on works that span the composers lifetime, including his early experimental and mature Americana periods.

Instrumentation: High Voice And Piano
Arranger: Sheston, Susanne
Binding: Saddle stitching
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, New York
ISMN: M-051-93393-8
ISBN: 979-0-051-93393-8

Contents

• Notes on the Songs and Aria
• Dirge in Woods -Old Poem
• Pastorale
• Poets Song -Vocalise
• Night
• A Summer Vacation
• My Heart Is in the East
• Alone
• Nature, the gentlest mother
• There came a wind like a bugle
• Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
• The world feels dusty
• Heart, we will forget him
• Dear March, come in!
• Sleep is supposed to be
• When they come back
• I felt a funeral in my brain
• Ive heard an organ talk sometimes
• Going to Heaven!
• The Chariot
• Lauries Song (from The Tender Land)
• Martins Song (from The Tender Land)
• The sun is coming up (from The Tender Land)
• Queenies Song (from The Second Hurricane)