Abandoned Songs (Besset, Julian Raoul)

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Mooning Time (No.1)

For Bassoon and Piano

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Jurabe (2018/9/14)

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The Scutch Fire Lament (No.10)

For Viola and Piano

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Misc. Notes This arrangement is a prolongation of The Leaf Burners, the melodic line is this time taken up by the viola, with a few necessary adjustments, and is slightly extended. The composer has seen fit to adapt the original poem in French, under the title Complainte d'automne, in an abbreviated form.
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Mooning Time (No.1)

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Misc. Notes The bassoon part is an adaptation of the baritone part
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The Scutch Fire Lament (No.10)

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Misc. Notes The song The Leaf Burners (No.10) is here slightly accommodated to be played on the viola, the composer having used that instrument to replace the vocal line when working at its reconstruction. The "scutch fire" in question is an allusion to Stanley Baldwin's heartfelt description of the English countryside in the olden days, where he remembers "(...) the smell of wood smoke coming up in an autumn evening, or the smell of the scutch fires (...)", this title transfer suggested itself on account of my reading S.B.'s evocation when a high school student, long before its vocal transpositiion.
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General Information

Work Title Abandoned Songs
Alternative. Title Reconsidered Lieder
Composer Besset, Julian Raoul
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IJB 93
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 9 pieces
1. The Rival (1970 ca.)
2. Curfew (1970s & 2019)
3. Echo (1971)
4. A Vision (Version 1. 1972 & 2019; Version 2. no date & 2019)
5. The Bourne (Versions 1 & 2 - 1972 & 2019)
6. Needs (undated & 2019)
7. Puritan Sonnet (1988 & 2019)
8. Life (n. d. & 2019)
9. The Bride (n.d. ca.1971, rev. 2019)
10. The Leaf Burners (1970s & 2019)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1970-2019 (see listing)
First Publication. 2018, 2019
Librettist 1. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) and Composer
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
3. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
4. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
5. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
6. Composer's own text
7. Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
8. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
9. John Suckling (1609-1642)
10. Ernest Rhys (1859-1946)
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Modern
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation voice (or bassoon, or viola), piano
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This segment is intended to serve as a 'reclaiming center' for those songs (as described in the composer's works list) that were abandoned at one point (before the advent of the personal computer) and never reconsidered. The composer intends to review those 'stumps' and eventually publish those that he believes are worthwhile. They will be numbered accordingly.