Spirit Above the Dust

(1981)
Spirit Above the Dust is a song cycle by Miriam Gideon for voice and chamber ensemble.

Songs:

1. Prologue | Text: Anne Bradstreet
2. Know the World | Text: Archibald MacLeish
3. The Two Trees | Text: Archibald MacLeish
4. The Linden Branch | Text: Archibald MacLeish
5. Black Boy | Text: Norman Rosten
6. My Caliban Creature | Text: Norman Rosten
Interlude
7. The Snow Fall | Text: Archibald MacLeish

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  • Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
    Ellie M. Hisama

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  • The Music Makers
    Deena and Bernard Rosenberg, eds.

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