Five Songs
by
for Soprano
LEO ORNSTEIN
Five Songsfor Soprano
By
LEO ORNSTEINWords by Waldo Frank
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I.
Leo Ornstein
Dawn be yond
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Dawn Beyond Windows
wind ows Morn ing
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be yond my soul
Words by Waldo Frank
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I cold am hard
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Iam
like death with in.
Sun is af flame out side me,
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in me, Rays
Poco piu animato
Piu I want the sun with
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sleep There is no
molto cresc.
wak ing my hid den
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riseI
dim
word bet ween us, There's no
light bet ween us, How can
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Teneramente
( )
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Since you are be yond my win dow
Tempo I
Morn ing be yond my hung er ing
Come to mehands
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strength be yond me Light ed tho' it be the need of hope,
Since you be yond my see ing with in my
see ing Strength less Though there be
are
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me strug gle toward you? Is that my soul
could I have hope were flame not in my flesh not ag
low with in me?poco rit.
Tempo I
are you far to make
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Since you're there be yond
my win dow Per
ab laze be yond
Draw ing me to my own self splend or
Lento Mallincolio
!!! !!
haps with in
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II
Streets of stone un
end ing Walls
tower ing and sky less This
is my way to toil Ston y tasks
Streets of StoneModerato 72
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Leo Ornstein
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end less toil
What is sun to me since
I am pris oned
from it walled by the stone hours
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now let me for get sun the far now let me toil since
toil toil
un end ing is my
stran ger
with a little more fire
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fate
Sure and all em
brac ing is this task
poco piu animato
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it Task
ais world warmsthat
amI with inLo! con tent
it
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glow
aI toil Sun
world that holdsa shines and
as
Sun a in me
upbow upbow upbow upbow upbow upbow
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glow in me I toilas
are we not
one
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Streets of stone un end ing Walls
sky less Thistower ing and
Tempo I
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is my way to toil
Ston y tasks end less toil
let it die off
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III.
Life burns
bright loneIand am a Can
Life Burns Bright
Moderato 72 Leo Ornstein
it be
that we are one to geth er?
Melancolico
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Reas makeson it so and yet it leaves me
lone ly O how sim ple
poco a poco cresc.
poco a poco cresc.
animato
to say and oh so
animato
hard to feel it
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hard to live it hard
Calmato 84
Why when I have
when I havesaid it we are one
Take your time to get to the D#
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I do notcalled and "my sun"hailed
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molto meno mosso
feel I do not feel It is not so
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Poco piu animato
Let me sing it ev er ev er sing it
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Let me sing it ev er ev er sing it
Joys a bove all reas on and be yond all know ing
Joys a bove
all reas on and be yond all know
ing
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Life is this song e'en while I live this
Calmato 84
won drous un ion Liv ing surewith in my
self and now sun is
e
fad ing
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E'er sun was more than known so it is
meno
meno
gone merged in sha dow y dream
Life burns
Tempo I
bright loneIand am a
Almost as though speaking to one's self
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Can it be that we are one to
geth er? Gone now yet glow ing lives sun's
mem o ry and strong its ma gic still pre vails once
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more I dwell with in that dwell with ining
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grey ness see light lean to ward
splen dor
poco a poco rit.
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!
!
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death
joy Rise from this
morendo
morendo
dark Live from this
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IV. All Man is Song
Allegro con fuoco Leo Ornstein
Sing!
the sun, the earth is song
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all man's a rous ing song
man is songAll
Sing life, live
song,
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Love!
Sing life, live the world issong,
shout ing Sing Yea!
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The
the sun the is love,heav'n
The earth is love
trees, the
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hills, tidesthe up wardmove
fullflash love
poco a poco dim.
Bright beast and
bird spin God's
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All
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that cir cles
round the earth swathes earth in love;
moons
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and
stars suns link love's chain
I with
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Allegro molto
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Hands toil at their
task they weave the
web from man to man; Their web of love
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Each an em
To
hand is
brace from one
one, and all make One
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Sing!
earth is song
the sun, the
man is songAll
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Sing life, live all man's asong,
rous ing
Sing life, live the world is shout ingsong,
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song
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sing yea!
The sun the is love,heav'n
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Love!
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the earth
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is love
The trees, the hills, the tides move
Bright beast and flash ful bird Spin
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God's
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love
glissando
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V. Shades of Tremulous ColorLeo Ornstein
Shades of trem u lous col or gar
ment the sin gle hued sun light of
Moderato sostenuto 120
Introspectively and with great sadness
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be
my what
that
canjoy
soul and initmakes faint me
this twi light
poco piu animato
sick lies o'er my
poco piu animato
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Think when
may
iting
tideone ebis andbing
the
twi light
thought a rise
con anima
con forza
is
ten
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tide flowsone
molto rit
molto rit 72
noon tide
has bled a way
I too go down
Tenderly
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flood has
shrunk to grey
down
sky's
I too go
Life woo
cresc
poco a poco agitato
poco a poco agitato
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woo ing
ceasesur
has
ing
For now
of
molto
for life's
cresc
come howthoughts
More and more fervently
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birth
Appasionato
The life of
life that's
rit.
meno
livedmolto rit.
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Shades of trem u lous col or gar
ment the sin gle hued sun light of
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my joy Lo!
misterioso
misterioso
Unhurriedly and with tenderness
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a deep er joy a dark er
joy I've lived
rall
Ah!
Lento
Lento
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m.g.
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