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Spanning more than thirty years of art songs by Scarim, this collection gathers most of the shorter songs into a single volume. Settings of poems by Shakespeare, Keats, Blake, Hesse, Whitman, Nietzsche and many more. Most are for voice and piano, although there is a selection of songs for 3-part a cappella ensemble, based on Native American poems.
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Here is the song "Origins" on a poem by Francois Clemmons:
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Here is the song "The Learn'd Astronomer" on a text by Walt Whitman:
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Press play to listen to "O Mistress Mine," words by Shakespeare:
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To preview or purchase a copy of the book, click this link:
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40 SONGS by Nicholas Scarim
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