«The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs»
«Nowth upon Nacht» for (high) voice and piano
texts from «Finnegans Wake» by James Joyce

Joan La Barbara (voice)
William Winant (piano)
California, Skywalker Music, July 1990

night by silent sailing night, 
Isobel, 
wildwoods eyes and primarose hair, 
quietly, 
all the woods so wild 
in mauves of moss and daphne dews 
how all so still she lay 
'neath of the white thorn, 
child of tree 
like some lost happy leaf 
like blowing flower stilled 
as fain would she anon 
for soon again 'twill be, 
win me, woo me, wed me, 
ah! weary me 
deepy, 
now even calm lay sleeping 
night, 
Isobel, 
Sister Isobel, 
Saintette Isobel, 
Madame Isa Veuve La Belle.

nowth upon nacht, while in his tumbril Wachtman Havelook 
seequeerscenes, from yonsides of the choppy, punkt by his 
curserbog, went long the grassgross bumpinstrass that henders 
the pubbel to pass, stowing his bottle in a hole for at whet his 
whuskle to stench ecrooksman, sequestering for lover's lost pro- 
pertied offices the leavethings from allpurgers' night, og gneiss 
ogas gnasty, kikkers, brillers, knappers and bands, handsboon 
and [bad word]  sminkysticks and eddiketsflaskers.