The Art of Music
A Collection of Writings,
Volume 1
Compiled and Edited by Elizabeth C. Axford
This anthology includes ninety music-related poems by forty contemporary North
American poets, authors, and songwriters. Includes winning poems from the Art of Music Annual Writing Contest.
Paperback, 64 pp. Vol. 1 ISBN: 0-9673325-8-3. $9.95 (PP1009)
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Contents
A Great Song (Thomas)
A Member of the Orchestra Aboard the Titanic (Cooperman)
Al Purdy, Colleen Peterson, and Forever (Madole)
Attempted Music (Cooperman)
Audience of One (Vaughn)
Can You See Me? (Zipper)
Caressed by a Cello (Lyons)
Chopin Funhouse (Mahaffey)
Counterpoint (Humphrey)
Daddio's Patio (While the Music Played) (Black)
Dancing (Cooperman)
Deborah (Zipper)
Elected Silence (sing to me) (Gilchrist)
Face the Music (Drucker/Stone)
Friends Close to Home (Axford)
Garden of Earthly Delights (Tower)
Goya (Dolcimascolo)
Gregorian Chants (Cooperman)
Healing Music (J. M. Hall)
Holy Fire (Clark)
How We Sang! (J. M. Hall)
How'm I Gonna Sing Tonight? (Stone)
I Do a Dance (Minanel)
Impetus (Cooperman)
In Appreciation of Garrick Ohlsson (Schibig)
Jazzman Takes a Break (Mahaffey)
La Boheme (Zipper)
Lament of an Aging Opera-Goer (Vaughn)
Lifting Voices (Cooperman)
Long Time Dead (Belt)
Man Playing Ravel (Mahaffey)
Master Class, Licia Albanese, February 21, 1998 (Vaughn)
Maybe the Music (Bennett)
Mozart Quintet (Napolin)
Music (Lenicheck)
Music 101 (Turner)
Music Feeds the Soul (Schibig)
Music in the Ground (Zipper)
Music is Heaven (Gilchrist)
Musical Chairs (Clark)
Musings in G# (Gilchrist)
Night Sounds (Taylor)
Nightfall (Napolin)
On Listening to "Fanfare for the Common Man" on the Anniversary of Aaron
Copland's One-Hundredth Birthday (Cooperman)
On the Anniversary of Glen Gould's Death (Behm)
One Sister and A Piano (Dolcimascolo)
Opus (Dolcimascolo)
Overture (Humphrey)
Papa's Imbalance (Dolcimascolo)
P-I-A-N-O (Swarts)
Pianoforte? (Gilchrist)
Pianos (Dolcimascolo)
Prelude to a Serenade (Muth)
Programme (Humphrey)
Remembering Schubert (Straus)
Resonance (Madole)
Resurrection (Simms)
Scheherazade (Zipper)
Serial Love (Grossman)
Sharps and Flats (Dunlap)
Sitting Down to My Guitar (Axford)
Slowing (Annicks)
Something in the Music (Turner)
Summer Symphony (Mula)
Symphony Beat (Straus)
Symphony in D Minor (Adagio Introduction) (Muth)
Symphony in October Minor (Behm)
That's Entertainment (J. M. Hall)
The Blessing (M. Hall)
The Celloist (Sinha-Morey)
The Constants (Zipper)
The Dancer (Axford)
The Joint is Jumpin'! (Gold)
The Drum (Duncan)
The Last Lullaby (Simms)
The Most Beautiful City (Cooperman)
The Piano (Winters)
The Piano Teacher (Cooperman)
The Prodigal Son (Cooperman)
The Sun and the Music (Axford)
The Violin Thief (Cooperman)
The Waltz (Axford)
To Marti (Grossman)
Violin (Muth)
Visage (McMaster)
Wasted Reflection (M. Hall)
What Is Music? (Behm)
Whispering, Rustling, Heeding the Tempo (McMaster)
Wolfgang (McMaster)
Woodstock in the Basement (Cooperman)
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