Duncan Major
Duncan Major is an Artist and Poet from Newfoundland. The set "Available Light" is a series of poems exploring love and loss.
Current Song Cycles
Available Light
1. I Tend this Fire
2. When I Walk
3. Plain love Tempo
4. Four Chords
5. Available Light
A word about the poetry and the selection process
These songs have a broad range of styles and lengths. All texts stay true to the poem; no words have been omitted or altered. Some of the songs are quite long (Easter 1916 is about 9 Minutes) while others are short. Winds of May from Joyce's Chamber music is over after a dashing 45 seconds!
Some of the poems are quite well known, others less so. The songbook is constantly expanding, and new songs will be added as they come into existence. We are interested in finding new material so please reach out if you have a suggestion!
Some of the listed songs are partial works of the whole. Notable is Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol. The work is simply massive, however composition is in progress. Currently the first completed parts encompass the first 42 lines of the poem. As other pieces are completed, that number of lines will be extended further.