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Selected songs : voice & piano

Title

Selected songs : voice & piano / Chester Biscardi.

Author

Biscardi, Chester

Publication

New York, New York : Biscardi Music Press, [2018]
©2018

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Request for On-site Use Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Notated music	Use in library	JNF 18-228	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Description

1 score (xxi, 100 pages) : portrait; 28 cm

Uniform Title

Songs. Selections

Alternative Title

Songs.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musical settings.
Songs.
Scores.
Vocal scores.

Note

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.

Language (note)

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.

Call Number

JNF 18-228

ISBN

0692046658
9780692046654

OCLC

1021721884

Author

Biscardi, Chester, composer.

Title

Selected songs : voice & piano / Chester Biscardi.

Publisher

New York, New York : Biscardi Music Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

English words.

Staff notation.

Added Author

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, author.

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, author.

Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980, author.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.

Butler, Henry, 1919-1998, librettist.

Zinsser, William, 1922-2015, lyricist.

Kaplan, Shirley, author.

Harnick, Sheldon, lyricist.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Gift of life. Mama never forgets her birds.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Baby song of the four winds.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Recovering.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Guru.

Container of (expression): Biscardi, Chester. Tight-rope. Poet's aria. Vocal score.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Prayers of steel.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. What a coincidence.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. Someone new.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Modern love songs. At any given moment.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Child comes every winter.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Chez vous.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. You've been on my mind.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. Play me a song.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. I dance the tango.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Sailors & dreamers, voice, piano. It's time to feel alright now.

Container of (work): Biscardi, Chester. Broken stars that go dark.

Publisher No.

B48-18-1 Biscardi Music Press

48-18-1 Biscardi Music Press

Research Call Number

JNF 18-228

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