Music's Power to...
SONGS ABOUT MUSIC'S ABILITY TO AFFECT US: C'est l'amour vainquer (LES
CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Oeser or Kaye edition; sung by Nicklausse); Violons
dans le soir (Saint Saens); Music, when soft voices die (Quilter or
Parry); Speak, music (Elgar); Music (Tippett); Music to hear (Stravinsky,
THREE SONGS FROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE); Urge me no more (Purcell); Music's
the cordial of a troubled breast (Blow); Music for a while (Purcell,
ORPHEUS BRITANNICUS); During Music (Ireland); Orpheus with his Lute
(Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Sullivan, et al); Welcome, every guest (Blow);
The Song in the Twilight (Bax); The Sound of Music (Rodgers); An die Musik
(Schubert); Like as the lute delights (Danyel); Muzyka (Rachmaninov, Op.
34); The Singer (Warlock or Gurney - I prefer the Gurney setting); Meine
Lieder (Brahms, Op. 106); Can Doleful notes? (Danyel); A piper (Michael
Head or John Duke); Geheimnis. An Franz Schubert (Schubert, D.491);
IMPASSION: O mio Fernano (LA FAVORITA); Jeg elsker Dig
(I Love You - Grieg); Meeting (Druecke mich an deine Brust - Farwell);
Obojmi, poceluj (Embrace, kiss - Balakirev)
SEDUCE: Printemps qui commence; Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (SAMSON ET
DALILA); Habanera; Seguidille (CARMEN); Geliebter komm (TANNHAUESER, Paris
version, in which Venus is a mezzo); Whatever Lola wants (DAMN YANKEES);
Turn back, O man (GODSPELL); Pridi ko mne (Come to me - Balakirev);
Cabaret (Alexandre Tansman); Liebestaendelei (Schubert, D.206)
INSPIRE: Keep the Home Fires Burning (Novello); O Divine Redeemer
(Gounod); Simple Song (Bernstein, MASS); When you walk through a storm
(CAROUSEL); Climb ev'ry mountain (THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
ELATE: Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur (Beethoven, Op. 48); My spirit sang
all day (Finzi); Wohlauf! Wohlauf! (Busoni, op. 18); Alle (Schoeck, op.
60); Lust, o Lust (Clara Schumann, SECHS LIEDER, op.
23)
EXCITE OR AGITATE: Iris, Hence away (Handel, SEMELE); Stella del marinar
(LA GIOCONDA); The bold, unbiddable child (Stanford); Give him this orchid
(Britten: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA); La Marseillaise; Non so piu (LE NOZZE DI
FIGARO); Rataplan (LA FORZA DEL DESTINO)
SADDEN OR DEPRESS: The Empty-Handed Traveller (THE CONSUL); He was
despised (MESSIAH); Va! laisse couler mes larmes (WERTHER); Rebecca Wasson
(Downes, SONGS FROM SPOON RIVER); Je n'ai plus que les os (Poulenc, POEMES
DE RONSARD); The Old Folks (JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN
PARIS); Yesterday When I was Young (Aznavour); Um Mitternacht (Mahler,
RUECKERTLIEDER); Schubert: LACRIMAS (D.857); When I am laid in earth (DIDO
AND AENEAS); Far from the home I love (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF); How could I
ever know? (THE SECRET GARDEN); Sur les lagunes (Berlioz, LES NUITS D'ETE)
SOOTH: Lullaby (Menotti, THE CONSUL); Rest, Sweet Nymphs (Warlock); Ar Hyd
y Nos (Welsh song); He shall feed his flock (MESSIAH); Bist du bei mir
(Bach); Ombra mai fu (Handel, SERSE); Cradle Song (Britten); O can ye sew
cushions? (Britten folk song setting); Cradle Song (Warlock); Cradle Song
(Ives); Never, never land (PETER PAN);
AMUSE: The Droll Lover (Warlock); I hate men (KISS ME, KATE); Lime Jello
Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise (Bolcom); Song of a nightclub
proprietress (Madeleine Dring, BETJEMAN SONGS); The Physician (Cole
Porter); Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage Mrs. Worthington (Coward);
Could I Leave You? (Sondheim); Gooch's Song (MAME); I was a constant
faithful wife (Walton, THE BEAR); The monk and his cat (Barber, HERMIT
SONGS); Liza Lehmann's settings of Hilaire Belloc's FOUR CAUTIONARY
TALES AND A MORAL; Hoiby: BON APPETIT!; My Ghost (Menotti); Poulenc:
QUATRE CHANSONS POUR ENFANTS; Richard Rodney Bennett: A GARLAND FOR
MARJORY FLEMING; Mussorgsky: Song of the Flea; Mussorgsky: DETSKAJA (THE
NURSERY); Bernstein: LA BONNE CUISINE; The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
(CAMELOT)
SCANDALISE: I never do anything twice (Sondheim); La dame de Monte-Carlo
(Poulenc); Surabaya Johnny (Kurt Weill, HAPPY END); Take me, take me, some
of you (James Hook; need to transpose from soprano key); La belle jeunesse
(Poulenc, CHANSONS GAILLARDES); The foggy, foggy dew (Britten folk-song
arrangement); Aldonza (MAN OF LA MANCHA); Little Sir William (Britten
folk-song setting, original words); The Song of Sexual Slavery (Weill,
THREE SONGS, Brecht translated by Cathy Berberian); Die Harlem Daenzerin
(Zemlinsky, op. 27)
SHOCK OR HORRIFY: Prison Song (Henze, STIMMEN); Loewenbraut (Schumann, Op.
31); Polkovodec (Mussorgsky, PESNI I PLJASKI SMERTI); The Electric Cop
(Henze, STIMMEN); Ruth Seeger: 2 RICARE; Stride la vampa; Condotta ell'era
in ciepi (IL TROVATORE); Bolero (Glinka, PROSHCHANIJE S. PETERBURGON)
I'm sure I could come up with more, if you need them...
KM
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We're sitting in the opera house;
We're waiting for the curtain to arise
With wonders for our eyes,
A feeling of expectancy,
A certain kind of ecstasy,
Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's.
- Charles Ives
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