Song cycles
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered musical works composed in the form of the song cycle. A second heading for medium is assigned, e.g. Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
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Four Civil War poems of Herman Melville
Item
Identifier: PS022
Scope and Contents
Four Civil War Poems of Herman Melville. [Set to music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Contents: 1. The Portent 1859 -- 2. Ball’s Bluff 1861 -- 3. Shiloh 1862 -- 4. The College Colonel. Text by Herman Melville. Choral, a cappella 1. The Portent - 1859: Hanging from the beam, slowly swaying gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! and the stabs shall heal no more. Hidden in the cap is the anguish none can draw; so your future veils its face, Shenandoah!But the streaming bears is shown, (Weird...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1976 - 2016