Musical Scores

Song of Myself: Intoned Poems of Walt Whitman

A Composition by Cris Forster
1977

For two-page views, this file includes the front and back cover, and four blank pages.

• Privately published performance score for Voice, Chrysalis I, and Harmonic/Melodic Canon.

• High quality printing on archival paper: 11 in. × 14 in.

• Laminated cover.

• Wire binding.

• pp. i–xiv: Detailed just intonation tuning charts and sequences for Chrysalis I and Harmonic/Melodic Canon, and detailed descriptions of instrument notations and performance practices.

• pp. 1–73: Musical score of the following eleven poems from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.

1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself

6. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands

7. Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

18. With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums

19. This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger

21. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul

34. Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth

38. Enough! enough! enough!

50. There is that in me ― I do not know what it is ― but I know it is in me

51. The past and present wilt ― I have fill’d them, emptied them

52. The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering

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♫ For information about the poems on the Audio CD, please visit New Song of Myself Album.