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The Long Departed Lover (1930)

from Chris Rainier Sings The Music Of Harry Partch by Chris Rainier

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Chris Rainier: voice and Adapted Guitar 1


Originally composed for voice and Adapted Viola
(New Orleans, December 1930)

Text:
L. Po, S. Obata (trans.), "The Works of Li Po The Chinese Poet Done into English verse", New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1928.


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lyrics

Fair one, when you were here, I filled the house with flowers.
Fair one, now you are gone – only an empty couch is left.
On the couch the embroidered quilt is rolled up;
I cannot sleep. It is three years since you went.
The perfume you left behind haunts me still.
The perfume strays about me forever, but where are you, Beloved?
I sigh – the yellow leaves fall from the branch.
I weep – the dew twinkles white on the green mosses.

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

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Chris Rainier London, UK

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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