Barber: 65 Songs

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Description

Manuscripts from the Library of Congress and other sources were consulted for all songs. The edition includes extensive historical information about each song, a lengthy and insightful article about Barber, and facsimiles of selected manuscripts.

Songs published during the composer 's lifetime:

• Three Songs, Op. 2: The Daisies; with rue my heart is laden; Bessie Bobtail
• Three Songs, Op. 10: Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army
• Four Songs, Op. 13: A Nun Takes the Veil; The Secrets of the Old; Sure on this shining night; Nocturne
• Two Songs, Op. 18: The queen's face on the summery coin; Monks and Raisins
• Nuvoletta, Op. 25
• Mélodies passagères, Op. 27: Puisque tout passé; Un cygne; Tombeau dans un parc; Le clocher chante; Départ
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29: At Saint Patrick's Purgatory; Church Bell at Night; St. Ita's Vision; The Heavenly Banquet; The Crucifixion; Sea-Snatch; Promiscuity; The Monk and His Cat; The Praises of God; The Desire for Hermitage
• Despite and Still, Op. 41: A Last Song; My Lizard (Wish for Young Love); in the Wilderness; Solitary Hotel; Despite and Still
• Three Songs, Op. 45: Now have I fed and eaten up the rose; A Green Lowland of Pianos; O boundless, boundless evening

Songs published posthumously (first published in this edition noted with *):

• Ask me to rest *
• Au claire de lune *
• Beggar's Song
• Fantasy in Purple *
• in the dark pinewood
• La nuit *
• Love at the Door
• Love's Caution
• Man *
• Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
• Music, when soft voices die *
• Night Wanderers
• of that so sweet imprisonment
• Peace *
• Serenader
• A Slumber Song of the Madonna
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening *
• Strings in the earth and air *
• There's nae lark
• Three Songs, The Words from Old England: Lady, when I behold the roses ; An Earnest Visit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him ; Hey nonny no!
• Two Poems of the Wind: Little Children of the Wind *; Longing *
• Two Songs of Youth: I never thought that youth would go *; Invocation to Youth
• Watchers *
• Who carries corn and crown *