Scope and Contents Dakota songs: Set I. For soprano and guitar. [Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. [Set to] Poems of Kathleen Norris. Five songs in set I: 1. Taking the blue -- 2. Stranded in Mobridge by a spring blizzard -- 3. Calentures -- 4. Calentures north -- 5. New year's eve in Bismarck, North Dakota. Dedication: for David. 1. Taking the blue: Trees gossip in the ghost-light. Early stars climb the sky and breeze descends, touching my arm lightly, like my grandmother at the last. 2. Stranded in Mobridge by...