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Chris Rainier: voice and Adapted Guitar 1


The score's title page reads:

"DECEMBER, 1942
- Three Settings for Guitar (Adapted) and Voice -

1. Come Away, Death (Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night')
2. The Heron (Tsuryuki - Waley Trans.) (13th century Japanese)
3. The Rose (Ella Young)

-//-

To Clara Shanafelt"


The score's colophon reads:
"New York City"

Texts:
1. Exact edition of "Twelfth Night" unknown
2. K. Tsurayuki, A. Waley (trans.), "Japanese Poetry: The Uta", Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1919.
3. E. Young,"Marzilian and Other Poems", Oceano, Harbison & Harbison, 1938.

//

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Come Away, Death

Come away, come away death and in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O prepare it! My part of death, no one so true did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet on my black coffin let there be strown
Not a friend, not a friend greet my poor corpse,
where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save
Lay me O! where sad true lover never find my grave to weep there

The Heron

The heron – its cry is mournful in the reed plain,
As though it had called to mind something, which it wanted to forget

The Rose

The rose that blooms in paradise, burns with an ecstasy
too sweet for mortal eyes
To lose it is to lose delight beyond compare,
to have it is to have despair

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from Chris Rainier Sings The Music Of Harry Partch, released February 21, 2024

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some kind of folk music. various microtonal guitars, weissenborn [a hollowneck lap steel, often with preparations]…also occasional singing, and other instrumental odds and ends.

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