1971
War Scenes
Composed by 
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem Text by 
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Song Collection
War Scenes sets five texts of Walt Whitman for medium-low voice and piano.
About
Most of the texts from this cycle come from Whitman’s prose work Specimen Days (1882) and are written in the style of a diary entry.
Photo: Antietam, Maryland, Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID: cwpb 01097
Sheet Music
War Scenes
Ned Rorem
1. A Night Battle
2. A Specimen Case
3. An Incident
4. Inauguration Ball
5. The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
2. A Specimen Case
3. An Incident
4. Inauguration Ball
5. The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
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