Songs for Today: The Moon

I plan to run a series of posts where I look at several pieces of music connected by a theme or common musical elements.  I'll start off on a lighter note this evening with a set of songs about the moon. The classical canon is rich enough here, but I have a few other directions in mind as well. (For the classical cannon, see Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture.) Later posts will bear some degree of analysis; for this topic, I believe these settings can speak for themselves. They reveal night as a time for reflection, rebellion, or exultation, according to each writer's own unique... idiom. Guten Abend, alle.

Felix Mendelssohn, Der Mond: Mein Herz ist wie die dunkle Nacht, from the song cycle Op. 86, Six Songs for Voice and Piano, early 19C.
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Schoenberg, The Moonfleck, from the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire, 1912

Cat Stevens, Moonshadow, from the album Teaser and the Firecat, 1971

Jonathan Larson, Over the Moon, from the musical Rent, 1994

Spongmonkies, We Like the Moon, 2006

Honorable mentions:

• Orff, Der Mond
• Dvorak,  Rusalka, Song to the Moon (I recommend Renee Fleming's fully-staged performances)
• Songs for a New World, Stars and the Moon
• Les Miserables, Harvest Moon
• See also Les Miserables, Stars
• A lovely song in French and English called La Luna that I can't seem to find anywhere but my iTunes.
• Ozzy, Bark at the Moon
• Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
• Sinatra, Old Devil Moon
• Rush, Between Sun & Moon