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Title of the work

I Sing the Body Electric

Composer
Beischer-Matyó Tamás
Original / Hungarian title
I Sing the Body Electric
Foreign language / English title
I Sing the Body Electric
Subtitle
Alternative musical on Walt Whitman´s Poem
Year of composition
2001
Type
Computer music
Instrumentation
voice - environmental sounds, eletronics, voice modified by electronics
Duration
55 min
Movements, parts
1. Bevezetés / I sing the body electric
2. The love of the body of man or woman
3. I knew a man, a common farmer
4. I have perceiv´d that to be with those I like is enough
5. This is the female form
6. The male is not less the soul
7. A man´s body at auction
8. A woman´s body at auction
9. O my body!
Text
WHITMAN, Walt
Language
English
Publisher / Source
MS
Available here!
Recordings
2001 - Tünde Estefán (A.) (Premiere recording) (Available at www.beischermatyo.hu)
1 min. sample
1 1. Bevezetés / I sing the body electric
2 2. The love of the body of man or woman
3 3. I knew a man, a common farmer
4 4. I have perceiv´d that
5 5. This is the female form
6 6. The male is not less the soul
7 7. A man´s body at auction
8 8. A woman´s body at auction
9 9. O my body!
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1998 - 2001