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Alan Duff Berman: The Syntax of Things

Alan Duff Berman: The Syntax of Things
A Cummings Love Song Cycle for Voice and Guitar

$14.00

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NEW SECOND EDITION, AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD! A sensuous, contemplative cycle of four E. E. Cummings settings for alto voice and guitar. The guitar and voice parts are richly resonant; the textures range from impressionistic, minimalist fabrics to slide guitar. The cycle is dedicated to alto vocalist Alexandra Grabarchuk, who premiered the cycle with the composer on guitar in 2014.

This new edition is formatted 9 x 12in ("Concert" size), ideally proportioned for tablet viewing in an iPad and includes numerous corrections and layout improvements.


  1. Berman: since feeling is first
  2. Berman: i like my body when it is with your
  3. Berman: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
  4. Berman: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

"since feeling is first", "i like my body when it is with your", "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in", "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond". Copyright (c) 1923, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1959, 1980, (c) 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright (c) 1976, 1979, 1985 by George James Firmage.