Compositions

Welcome to the library for Joe’s compositions! Below you will find many of Joe’s compositions organized by Category and Parts (instrumentation). On the site so far, we have Joe’s art song cycle – Rexroth: one hundred poems from the Japanese, the Emily Dickinson Song Cycle, and others, with more to come!

Click on each song title to view and download the sheet music, and listen to a midi file of the piece. Let us know if you have any questions, and contact Joe if you are planning to perform one of his compositions.

Compositions Category Parts
Li Po: Looking for Master Yung Ts'un Near His Hermitage
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Tu Fu: To A Guesst
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Li Po: Zazen on Ching-t'ing mountain - VERSION 2
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Li Po: Summer Days In The Mountains
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Li Po: Summer Days in the Mountains (Version Two)
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Li Po: Listening to a Flute in Yellow Crane Pavilion
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Li Po: Quiet Night Thoughts
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Li Po: In memory of Ho Chi-chen
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Basho. Even in Kyoto (haiku)
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Hart Crane. As Silent As A Mirror Is Believed
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Li Po: O-Mei Mountain Moon
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Tu Fu. Listless.
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Tu Fu: Lone Wild Goose
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Li Po: Mirror Lake
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Tu Fu: The Abbot Min
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Li Po: Going To Visit a Taoist Recluse
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InTheDawn.Revised22Aug21
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Emerson: The Bell
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Scarlatti Sonata L. 108 in a transformed state
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Li Po: Taking Leave Of A Friend
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Tu Fu: River Pavilion
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Li Po: The Woman of Ch'ang-an
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Piece for Oboe and Five Keyboards
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Anonymous Chinese 4th Century C.E.
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Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking - Part 3 of 3
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Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking - part 2 of 3 parts
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Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking - Part One (of 3)
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Hart Crane: Harbor Dawn
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Hart Crane: My Grandmother's Love Letters
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The Day Yeats Died: by Auden
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Lenador: Garcia Lorca
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The Mists Rise Over Asuka: 100 Poems from the Japonese
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Verlaine: Mon Reve Familier
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Diurnal Convection: by Roy Doughty
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Yeats.FirstLove
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Yeats: The Lake at Innisfree
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Chinese Lullaby
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Stopping at Jung-Yang (Po Chu-I)
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Autumn Rain: Po-Chu-I
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Someone Passes (Rexroth #54)
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Po-Chu-I: After Getting Drunk
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After the Storm - Rexroth #58
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I Can Feel The Loneliness - Rexroth #53
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The River Izumi - Rexroth #37
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In The Dawn
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Korean Poem: Shah Poori
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Like A Wave Crest
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As I Row Over The Plain
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Rexroth 73: That Spring Night
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Eliot Prelude No. 4
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Eliot Preludes No. 2
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Eliot Preludes No. 3
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Eliot Preludes No. 1
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Basho: Clouds in the Distance
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Heine: We Stood On The Corner
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Heine: The Letter
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Musset Nuit De Mai
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Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm
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When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer (Whitman)
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Roy Doughty: Traveling North Part 2
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Roy Doughty: Traveling North Part 1
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By The Winding River
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Roy Doughty: Traveling North
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The Pear Blossoms Original Version
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Rexroth Chinese 111: The Old Anguish
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Rexroth Chinese 84: The Pear Blossoms (Revised Jan 6)
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Rexroth Chinese 32: Homecoming - Late At Night
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South Wind - Tu Fu
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The Pear Blossoms Version 2
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Rain In The Aspens
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Spring Sun
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The Pear Blossoms
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We Are Like You And Me Pine Needles
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The Crying Plovers
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An Answer to Ting Yuan Chen
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Emily Dickinson: The Heart Asks Pleasure First
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Shelley Loves Philosophy
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The Snow Storm
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Silent Night
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Lorelei
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TuFu: New Moon
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TuFu: Clear After Rain
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El Nino Mudo
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Bredon Hill
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Rhodora
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I Have Always Known
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I Have Always Known (Live Version)
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This Is Not The Moon
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The Mists Rise Over Asuka
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No The Human Heart Is Unknowable
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I Go Out Of The Darkness
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From Yoshino Mountain
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Will I Cease To Be
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Though the Purity of the Moonlight
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I Am Unhappy
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The Hanging Raindrops
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Piece For Clar
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Somewhere I Have Never...
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My Grandmother's Love Letters
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That Time of Year
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Composed on Westminster
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Did Those Feet In Ancient Times
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Piano Suite for Anne Rainwater, Movement IV
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Piano Suite for Anne Rainwater, Movement III
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Piano Suite for Anne Rainwater, Movement II
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Piano Suite for Anne Rainwater, Movement I
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Vocalise
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After Great Pain
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The Sky Is Low
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There Is A Certain Slant of Light
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We Learned The Whole Of Love
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The Spider Holds A Silver Ball
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The Sky Is Low
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These Are The Days When Birds Come Back
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There Is No Silence
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There Came A Wind Like A Bugle
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The Last Night That She Lived
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The Distance That The Dead Have Gone
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Safe Despair It Is That Raves
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Pain Has An Element Of Blank
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On This Long Storm
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Of God We Asked One Favor
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Nor Vengeance Ever Come
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My Life Closed Twice
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I Never Saw A Moor
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I Could Not Stop For Death
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After Great Pain
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A Charm Invests A Face
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There Is A Certain Slant of Light
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Rexroth 100: The Deer on Pine Mountain
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Rexroth 99: I Think of the Days/Others May Forget You
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Rexroth 98: We Were Together
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Rexroth 96: The Frost Lies White
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Rexroth 95: Mist Floats
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Rexroth 94: The Wind Rustles the Bamboos
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Rexroth 93: I Lie Long Abed
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Rexroth 90: The Cry of the Stag
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Rexroth 89: Moth Eye Brows
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Rexroth 88: I Will Come to You
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Rexroth 87: It Does Not Matter
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Rexroth 86: Like a Wave Crest
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Rexroth 85: No, the Human Heart is Unknowable
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Rexroth 84: Out in the Reeds
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Rexroth 78: In the Eternal Light
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Rexroth 75: As I Row Over the Plain
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Rexroth 69: Though You Can Tell Me You Heard
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Rexroth 67: Involuntary, I May Live On
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Rexroth 66: If Only the World
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Rexroth 65: A Cuckoo Calls
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Rexroth 64: Do Not Smile to Yourself
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Rexroth 62: The Stakes of the Nets Appear at Dawn
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Rexroth 60: When I Am Lonely
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Rexroth 58: After the Storm
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Rexroth 57: Even in the Age of Strong Swift Gods
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Rexroth 56: I Have Always Known
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Rexroth 55: This is not the Moon
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Rexroth 53: I Can Feel the Loneliness Grow
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Rexroth 52: I Am Unhappy
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Rexroth 50: In the Mountain Village
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Rexroth 47: In the Dawn
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Rexroth 46: From Yoshino Mountain
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Rexroth 44: Imperceptible it Withers
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Rexroth 43: As Certain As Color Fades
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Rexroth 42: When I Went Out in the Spring Fields
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Rexroth 38: I Dreamed I had a Sword
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Rexroth 36: Although I Hide It
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Rexroth 34: The Hanging Raindrops
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Rexroth 33: I Go Out of Darkness
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Rexroth 32: Will I Cease to Be; Solo with Flute
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Rexroth 29: Hitomaro; I Waited for my Lover
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Rexroth 17: The Empty Mountains, Version 2
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Rexroth 17: The Empty Mountains, Version 1
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Rexroth 12: I Think of the Days
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Rexroth 11: In a Gust of Wind
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Rexroth 10: The Cicada Sings in the Rotten Willow
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Rexroth 9: The Purity of the Moonlight
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Rexroth 8: Though the Purity of the Moonlight
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Rexroth 5 version 2: The mists rise over Asuka
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Rexroth 5: The mists Rise over Asuka
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Rexroth 1: When I went out into the Spring Meadows
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Rexroth 1: Snow on Fuji
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I Never Saw a Moor
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