Song of Myself: Intoned Poems of Walt Whitman
A Composition by Cris Forster
1977
Copyright © 1980 by Cris Forster
First Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Cris Forster
Second Edition, corrected and improved.
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• Privately published performance score for Chrysalis I, Harmonic/Melodic Canon, and Voice.
• High quality printing on archival paper: 11 in. × 14 in.
• Laminated cover.
• Wire binding.
• pp. i–xi: Detailed just intonation tuning charts 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.