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SKU: A0.1402627

By David Warin Solomons. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary,Singer/Songwriter. Score. 10 pages. David Warin Solomons #985851. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1402627).

This song is based on parts of the poem by Paul Valéry Fragments du Narcisse which explains and ponders the idea of the origin of narcissism (self-love)

The words are as follows

Mais moi, Narcisse aimé, je ne suis curieux
Que de ma seule essence ;
Tout autre n’a pour moi qu’un cœur mystérieux,
Tout autre n’est qu’absence.

Ô mon bien souverain, cher corps, je n’ai que toi !
Le plus beau des mortels ne peut chérir que soi...
  Douce et dorée, est-il une idole plus sainte,
De toute une forêt qui se consume, ceinte,
Et sise dans l’azur vivant par tant d’oiseaux ?
Est-il don plus divin de la faveur des eaux,
Et d’un jour qui se meurt plus adorable usage
Que de rendre à mes yeux l’honneur de mon visage ?

Quitte enfin le silence, ose enfin me répondre,
Bel et cruel Narcisse, inaccessible enfant,
Tout orné de mes biens que la nymphe défend...

Formons, toi sur ma lèvre, et moi, dans mon silence,
Une prière aux dieux qu’émus de tant d’amour
Sur sa pente de pourpre ils arrêtent le jour !...

Dieux ! de l’auguste jour, le pâle et tendre reste
Va des jours consumés joindre le sort funeste ;
Il s’abîme aux enfers du profond souvenir !
Hélas ! corps misérable, il est temps de s’unir...
Penche-toi... Baise-toi. Tremble de tout ton être !
L’insaisissable amour que tu me vins promettre
Passe, et dans un frisson, brise Narcisse, et fuit..


English translation by D W Solomons

But I, beloved Narcissus, am curious only
about my very being
everything else has nothing more than a heart of mystery
everything else is nothing but absence
Only what I own, my dear sovereign body, is what I have
The most beautiful of mortals cannot cherish anything more than itself
Sweet and golden, is there a more holy idol
within an entire forest, self-consumed and held
and set in the living azure by so many birds?
Is there a more divine gift than the favour of the waters
and a more adorable use of the dying day
than to return to me the honour of my face?

Please don't be silent, please dare to reply
Beautiful and cruel Narcissus, unreachable child 
owning what I hold dear but guarded by the nymph

Let the two of us, you on my lips and I in my silence
make a prayer to the gods that they should be moved by so much love
that they would keep the day held in its purple sunset

Gods! only the pale and tender parts remain of the august day,
It joins the fate of other days that were consumed
It goes down into the hell of deep memory
Alas, miserable body, it is time to become as one
Bend down - kiss yourself - tremble with all your being
The intangible love that you promised
has gone by, and in a shiver, shatters Narcissus and flees.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1373984

Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #958551. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1373984).

This setting of Paul Verlaine's poem Nevermore plays on an ambiguity of major and minor modes, swaying back and forth between the tonal centres of G minor and E flat major 

The pdf contains score and separate guitar part

The poem and English translation are as follows:


Nevermore 

Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu? L'automne
Faisait voler la grive à travers l'air atone,
Et le soleil dardait un rayon monotone
Sur le bois jaunissant où la bise détone.

Nous étions seul à seule et marchions en rêvant,
Elle et moi, les cheveux et la pensée au vent.
Soudain, tournant vers moi son regard émouvant :
Quel fut ton plus beau jour? fit sa voix d'or vivant,

Sa voix douce et sonore, au frais timbre angélique.
Un sourire discret lui donna la réplique,
Et je baisai sa main blanche, dévotement.

-- Ah! les premières fleurs, qu'elles sont parfumées !
Et qu'il bruit avec un murmure charmant
Le premier oui qui sort de lèvres bien-aimées !

English translation by S N Solomons:

Memory, what would you have of me? Autumn
Drove the thrush up through the atonic air
And the pale sun pierced in monotone
The chill and windy woods and the leaf flare.

Together but alone we went our ways,
Hair blown awry and monad thoughts unfurled.
Sudden she turned to me her tender gaze:
What was your finest day? - a voice of gold,

Dulcet and low, ineffable and fresh.
And I said nothing, offered her a smile,
Seized her pale hand and pressed a kiss.

Ah those first flowers of spring how sweet they were,
And that first whispered Yes, how it beguiled,
Won from those lovely lips with gentle murmur.
(c) S N Solomons.

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SKU: A0.1205974

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Pop,Standards. Score. 3 pages. John Fries #804165. Published by John Fries (A0.1205974).

Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John.  Blackbird is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and alternatively by racial tension in the United States.

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SKU: A0.1205900

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Pop,Rock,Standards. Score. 2 pages. John Fries #804091. Published by John Fries (A0.1205900).

Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Thanks, John.  Can't Buy Me Love is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in March 1964 as the A-side of their sixth single.  It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership.  The song was included on the group's album A Hard Day's Night and was featured in a scene in Richard Lester's film of the same title. The single topped charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and Sweden.  In the UK, it was the fourth highest selling single of the 1960s.  The song's verse is a twelve-bar blues in structure, a formula that the Beatles seldom applied to their own material.  When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song's true meaning, McCartney stated: I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that 'Can't Buy Me Love' is about a prostitute, I draw the line.  He went on to say: The idea behind it was that all these material possessions are all very well, but they won't buy me what I really want.  However, he was to comment later: It should have been 'Can Buy Me Love' when reflecting on the perks that money and fame had brought him.

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SKU: A0.1201279

By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Pop,Rock,Standards. Score. 2 pages. John Fries #799930. Published by John Fries (A0.1201279).

Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Thanks, John.  Good Day Sunshine is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. The composition contains key changes and metric anomalies, and closes with voices chanting the song title.

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SKU: A0.1177975

Composed by Natasha Sultana. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz,Pop,Standards. Score. 3 pages. John Fries #777938. Published by John Fries (A0.1177975).

Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.Blackbird is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and alternatively by racial tension in the United States.

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SKU: HX.1114913

By Paul Gordon. Edited by Mariann Cook. This edition: scorch. Broadway,Musical/Show. Score. 5 pages. Hal Leonard - Digital #214685. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.1114913).

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By The Jam. By Paul Weller. For piano, voice, and guitar (chords only). Rock. 4 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music

(Popular Standard). By Chick Endor; Paul Rebere. For piano, vocal & chords. Key of C-Major. Traditional Pop. Score. Text Language: English. 7 pages. Published by Shapiro Bernstein Organization

(Popular Standard). By Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, etc. By Ray Henderson; B.G. De Sylva; Bud Green. For piano, vocal & chords. Key of F-Major. Traditional Pop. Score. Text Language: English. 7 pages. Published by Shapiro Bernstein Organi

By Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby etc. By Peter De Rose; Billy Hill. For piano, vocal & chords. Key of Eb-Major. Traditional Pop. Score. Text Language: English. 7 pages. Published by Shapiro Bernstein Organization