Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Coates

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson (15 chants sur des poèmes d'Emily Dickinson, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Fünfzehn Lieder auf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson, translated by Bertram Kottmann) FRE GER
• no. 1. (I'm) Nobody (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 2. I've Seen a Dying Eye (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 3. I Held a Jewel (In my Fingers) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 4. Wild Nights (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 5. Armistice (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 6. Mine by the Right (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 7. A Word is Dead (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 8. Bind me, I Still Can Sing (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 9. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 10. Vitality, Begun (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 11. After Great Pain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
• no. 12. Bride of the Holy Ghost (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 13. In Falling Timbers Buried (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 14. Now I Lay Thee Down / On the Death of a Child (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 15. Will There Really be a 'Morning'? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)
• no. 1. Aria: Junge Witwe (Text: Charlotte Hagedorn) *
• no. 2. Recitative: BBC Weather Report (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. Aria: The Flying Bombers; ideas and thoughts of Phyllis McGinley in 1942 (Text: Gloria Coates after Phyllis McGinley) ⊗*
• no. 4. Rezitativ: Brief der Lehrerin Elfriede Birndorfer (Text: Elfriede Birndorfer) *
• no. 5. Aria: Rinne, Regen, Rinne; aus einer bayerischen Zeitung von 1943 (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 6. Aria: All These Dyings; thoughts of Marianne Moore from In Distrust of Merits, 1942

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• After Great Pain (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
• Aria: All These Dyings; thoughts of Marianne Moore from In Distrust of Merits, 1942 (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime))
• Aria: Junge Witwe (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)) (Text: Charlotte Hagedorn) *
• Aria: Rinne, Regen, Rinne; aus einer bayerischen Zeitung von 1943 (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)) (Text: Anonymous)
• Aria: The Flying Bombers; ideas and thoughts of Phyllis McGinley in 1942 (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)) (Text: Gloria Coates after Phyllis McGinley) ⊗*
• Armistice (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• A Word is Dead (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• Bind me, I Still Can Sing (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Bride of the Holy Ghost (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• I Held a Jewel (In my Fingers) (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• (I'm) Nobody (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
• In Falling Timbers Buried (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• I've Seen a Dying Eye (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• Komplementär (Text: Friederike Mayröcker) * ENG
• Mine by the Right (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Now I Lay Thee Down / On the Death of a Child (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Recitative: BBC Weather Report (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)) (Text: Anonymous)
• Rezitativ: Brief der Lehrerin Elfriede Birndorfer (in Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime)) (Text: Elfriede Birndorfer) *
• Verwelkte Bücher (Text: Alexandra Coates)
• Vitality, Begun (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• Wild Nights (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• Will There Really be a 'Morning'? (in 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Last update: 2026-09-25 16:15:27