Six Etudes for Voice and Piano

Song Cycle by Elliot Kaplan (b. 1931)

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in spite of ev'rything
 [ ... ]

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by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in is 5, first published 1926, copyright ©

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between green
              mountains
sings the flinger
of

fire   beyond red rivers
of fair perpetual
feet the
sinuous

        riot

the
flashing
bacchant.

partedpetaled
mouth,face
delirious.   indivisible
grace

      of dancing

Text Authorship:

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in XLI Poems, in 1. Songs, no. 7, first published 1925

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Tumbling-hair
                         picker of buttercups
                                                            violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
                                    through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
                    also picking flowers

Text Authorship:

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 3, first published 1923

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un
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by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), appears in Collected Poems, in New Poems, first published 1938, copyright ©

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hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe
little [itchy]¹
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob          hob-a-nob
little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies
with scuttling
eyes        rustle and run          and
hidehidehide
whisk
whisk          look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she'll do to yer
nobody knows
for she knows the devil            ooch
the devil        ouch
the devil
ach        the great
green
dancing
devil
devil
 
devil
devil
 
                    wheeEEE

Text Authorship:

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 2, first published 1923

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¹ W. Mayer: "twitchy"

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the
     sky
          was
can    dy    lu
minous
         edible
spry
        pinks shy
lemons
greens   coo   l choc
olate
s.

  un  der,
  a    lo
co
mo
      tive     s    pout
                            ing
                                 vi
                                 o
                                 lets

Text Authorship:

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in XLI Poems, in 1. Songs, no. 1, first published 1925

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Total word count: 202