Discordants

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart that you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always, -
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.

by Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) , "Discordants", from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse, published 1916

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) , "Music I heard with you", published 1977 [SAMezzoTBarB, orchestra], from Songfest, no. 9.
by George Cory (1920?-) , "Music I heard with you", published 1969. [soprano or tenor, piano]
by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) , "Music I Heard", L. 891 (1961).
by Herbert Elwell (1898-1974) , "Music I heard with you", published 1946. [voice, piano]
by Richard Bruce Faith (1926-) , "Music I heard with you", published 1971. [chorus: SATB, piano]
by Willard Samuel Fast (1922-) , "Bread and music", published 1967. [chorus: TTBB, a cappella]
by Richard Hageman (1882-1966) , "Music I heard with you", published 1938. [voice, piano or orchestra]
by Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) , "Music I heard with you", published 1920 [voice, piano or orchestra], from Three Songs of Love
by Paul Nordoff (1909-1977) , "Music I heard with you", published 1938. [voice, piano]
by Reginald Chauncey Robbins (1871-1955) , "Bread and music", published 1941 [high voice, piano], from Songs by Reginald C. Robbins
by James Spencer Houston (1895-1967) , "Bread and music", published 1938. [medium to high voice, piano]
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "Music I heard", published 1921 [voice, piano], from Songs by Bryceson Treharne
by Richard H. Williams , "Music I heard", published 1964. [partsong: TBB, piano]

Date added to the website: 2004-02-09.

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