Six Songs or a Young Man or Baritone and Piano by Alan Belkin or Réal Alan Belkin, 2007
My Six Songs or a Young Man cover my entire comosing career to date, rom 1974 to the 2008. Although not originally intended as a cycle, they can be sung as such, in the order and the transositions here given. They can also be sung individually.. The original dates o comosition are as ollows; most, however have recently been very much revised. Whoso List to Hunt: 1974 Passing Stranger: 1979 Bore my Bearer: 1981 To an Absent Loved One: 1978 had a Dove: 1999 Against my Love: 2007
SX SONGS FOR A YOUNG MAN Voice Andante q=75 1) Whoso List to hunt (original key: C minor) oco rit. a temo music by Alan Belkin text by Thomas Wyatt Piano Andante q=75 oco rit. Who - so list a temo to hunt, 7 know where is an hind, as or me, But he - las, 12 may no more. The vain tra - vail hath wear - ried me so Coyright Alan Belkin, 1974, minor revisions 2006
2 17 iù o those sore, am that ar - thest come be - hind, 22 wear - Yet may - by - no means - my - ied mind draw rom the Deer. 27 as she leeth a - ore, aint - ing ol - low. leave o there
2 ore since in a net seek to hold the wind. 7 Who list her hunt ( ut him out o doubt) As well as may 4 send his time in vain, And gra - ven with dia - monds in let - ters
4 48 throat round Poco Meno Mosso lain There is writ - ten her air a - bout "No - li me Poco Meno Mosso 5 a temo tang - e - re" or Ceas - ar's am and wild or to hold, a temo 58 though seem tame. rit. rit.
5 2) To a Stranger (original key: G major) Voice Piano Slowly q=65 Slowly q=65 by Alan Belkin text by Walt Whitman 5 10 Pass - ing strang - er! Alan Belkin, 1974, revised 1979, 2006
6 14 Poco Meno Mosso you do not know howlong - ing - ly look u - on you, Poco Meno Mosso 18 be he to me You must wasseek - ing or she wasseek - ing (it comes 21 as o a dream,) have some - where sure - ly lived a lie o
joy 24 with you, All is re - called as we lit by each oth - er, 7 27 oco rit. a temo lu - id, a - ec - tion - ate, chaste, ma - tured, oco rit. a temo 1 You grew u with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
8 4 cresc. ate with you and slet with you, your cresc. bo dy 7 my bo dy - has be - come not yours on - ly nor let - mine on - ly, 40 me the leas cresc. You give - ure o your eyes, ace, cresc.
9 44 lesh, as we ass, you take o my beard, breast, 50 hands in re- turn, 55 am not to seak m to you am to think o you when sit a - lone or
10 58 wake at night oco rit. a temo a - lone, am to wait, oco rit. a temo 62 to see that do not doubt am to meet you a - again, am to it oco rit. 65 Poco Meno Mosso do not lose rit. you. oco rit. Poco Meno Mosso rit.
11 ) bore my bearer (original key) Voice Adagio q =50 music by Alan Belkin text by James Agee Piano 6 Adagio q =50 bore mybear - er on a wast - ed moun - tain, His weight be - ing no - thing, 10 though the rame stayed whole (But or the wings): Yes, it was tothat Alan Belkin, 1981, revised 2006
12 14 Foun - tain Where irst saw him drink, took his soul; 17 oco rit. took his soul: oco rit. 21 a temo So cloyed with clay, so sti - ened ull o stone, hard - ly a temo
1 24 orced it o - en or his rest, where once a liq - uid more a live - had grown 28 oco Than ev - er cher - ished in a moth - er's breast, oco 2 By what cause, cresc. right, or means, ev - er should
14 6 grieve? The im - mort - al sring it - sel is dead. 40 Tear - less laid mykilled soul to the 44 dry Root o his nur - ture. Yet the oor lace bred just dam e -
15 47 to mark nough to lit u the leaves in time the grave, 50 the crime. heal the wound, and hide dim. 5 rit. dim. rit. una corda
16 4) To an Absent Loved One (originally a minor third higher) Voice Con Moto q=80 music and words by Alan Belkin Piano Con Moto q=80 5 Nights o low - ing ca - ress Alan Belkin, 1984(?), revised 199
8 have de 5 - di - - ca - ted - to you. 17 11 You ol - low me 14 as a know - ledge that li - ckers and is
18 16 aint, but ten - der - ly con - quers a hard - er re - a - li - ty 18 that care not to con cede. 21 una corda
19 26 Hands mov - ing, stroke va - cant 29 air; hands curl - ed with 2 oth - er hands in a ges - ture gentl - er than lov - ers lov - ing can ro
20 5 duce. Lis that sot - ly and 8 si - lent - ly e - mit a kiss o sub - tle close - ness, known to ver - y ew. 41
21 44 To you, 47 give ree - ly all o this, lov - er yet un - 49 known!
22 5) had a Dove (original a tritone higher) Voice Piano Adagio q = 60 Adagio q = 60 music by Alan Belkin text by John Keats 5 had a dove and the 8 sweet dove died; 5 And have thought it died o griev - ing Alan Belkin, 1999, revised 2006
2 11 O, were tied what could it grieve or? ts eet 14 With a silk - en thread o my own hands' weav ing 17 Sweet lit - tle red eet! Why would you die
24 20 Why would you leave me sweet bird why? 2 You lived a lone Poco Meno Mosso Poco Meno Mosso - on the or - est tree, 26 not live Why, ret - ty thing, could you with me?
29 kissed you ot and gave you white eas; Why not live sweet ly, 25 2 as in the green trees? allarg. allarg. 5 Meno Mosso Temo 1 rit. Meno Mosso Temo 1 una corda rit.
26 Voice Lento q=55 6) Against my love (original key) music by Alan Belkin words by Shakeseare Lento q=55 Piano legato, dolce 4 7 A - gainst my love With Time's in - jour - ious hand shall be as am now, crush'd and o'er - worn; Alan Belkin, 1999, 2006
27 9 When hours have drain'd his blood and ill'd his brow With 11 lines and wrin - kles; when his youth - ul morn Hath 1 tra - vell'd on to a - ge's stee - y night And all those
28 15 beaut - ies where - o now he's king Are van - ish - ing or 17 van - ished out o sight, Steal - ing a - way the trea - sure o his 19 sring; For such a time do
29 21 ossia now or now or - ti - y - ti - y A - - gainst con -ound -ing a A - gainst con ound - - ing a - ge's cru - el - ge's cru - el 2 knie, That he shall ne - ver cut rom me - mo - ry My 25 sweet love's beau - ty, though my lo - ver's lie: His
0 27 cresc. shall live, beau - ty shall in these black lines be seen, And they cresc. 29 and he in them still green. 1 allarg. allarg. a temo a temo iu total duration: about 17 minutes