Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Moore
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Flowers of Darkness
- no. 1. Flowers of Darkness (Text: Frank Marshall Davis) *
- no. 2. Creole Girl (Text: Leslie Morgan Collins) * GER
- no. 3. Harlem Sweeties (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 4. At Early Morn (Text: Binga Dismond) [x]*
- no. 5. The Glory of the Day was in Her Face (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
- no. 6. O Daedalus, Fly Away Home (Text: Robert Hayden) *
- From the Dark Tower
- no. 1. O black and unknown bards (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
- no. 2. Southern mansions (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
- no. 3. Willow bend and weep (Text: Herbert Clark Johnson) *
- no. 4. Old Black Men (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
- no. 5. No Images (Text: Waring Cuney) GER
- no. 6. Dream variation (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 7. To a poet (Text: Countee Cullen)
- no. 8. From the Dark Tower (Text: Countee Cullen)
- Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death
- no. 1. I had no thought of violets of late (Text: Alice Ruth Moore , as Alice Nelson Dunbar)
- no. 2. Joy (Text: Clarissa M. Scott Delany)
- no. 3. Some things are very dear to me (Text: Gwendolyn B. Bennett) *
- no. 4. He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black (Text: Gwendolyn B. Bennett) *
- no. 5. Song for a Dark Girl (Text: Langston Hughes) GER GER
- no. 6. Idolatry (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
- no. 7. Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds (Text: Countee Cullen)
- no. 8. Invocation (Text: Helene Johnson) *
- Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe
- Ah, my beloved (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- And when like her (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- Come fill the cup (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- Would but some winged angel (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- The wordly hope (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- Ah, my beloved (in Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- And when like her (in Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- At Early Morn (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: Binga Dismond) [x]*
- Come fill the cup (in Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- Creole Girl (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: Leslie Morgan Collins) * GER
- Dream variation (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Flowers of Darkness (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: Frank Marshall Davis) *
- From the Dark Tower (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Countee Cullen)
- Harlem Sweeties (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Gwendolyn B. Bennett) *
- Idolatry (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
- I had no thought of violets of late (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Alice Ruth Moore , as Alice Nelson Dunbar)
- Invocation (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Helene Johnson) *
- Joy (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Clarissa M. Scott Delany)
- No Images (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Waring Cuney) GER
- O black and unknown bards (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: Robert Hayden) *
- Old Black Men (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
- Some things are very dear to me (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Gwendolyn B. Bennett) *
- Song for a Dark Girl (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER GER
- Southern mansions (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
- The Glory of the Day was in Her Face (in Flowers of Darkness) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
- The weary blues (Text: Langston Hughes)
- The wordly hope (in Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- To a poet (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Countee Cullen)
- Willow bend and weep (in From the Dark Tower) (Text: Herbert Clark Johnson) *
- Would but some winged angel (in Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
- Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds (in Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death) (Text: Countee Cullen)
Last update: 2023-05-11 11:44:40