Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Hoiby
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Chants d'Exil
- no. 1. Lucioles (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- no. 2. Anniversaire (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- no. 3. Chant du kisandji (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- Four Dickinson Songs (Vier Dickinsonlieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
- no. 1. A letter (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- no. 2. How the Waters closed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- no. 3. Wild nights (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
- no. 4. There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- I was there
- no. 1. Beginning my studies (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 2. I was there (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 3. A clear midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
- no. 4. O captain! My captain! (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
- no. 5. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
- Night Songs
- no. 1. Night (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- no. 2. Pierrot (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- no. 3. Angélique (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- no. 4. The shroud (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- O Florida, op. 39
- no. 1. Floral Decorations for Bananas (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 2. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- no. 3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 4. Before My Door (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 5. O Florida (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- Rain Forest
- no. 1. Giant Toad (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- no. 2. Strayed crab (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- no. 3. Giant snail (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- no. 4. Sandpiper (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Songs for Leontyne
- no. 1. The doe (Text: John Fandel) *
- no. 2. Evening (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 3. Autumn (Text: Harry Duncan after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER ITA
- no. 4. Winter song (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
- no. 5. In the wand of the wind (Text: John Fandel) *
- no. 6. The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- Songs of the Fool
- no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- no. 2. Come away, Death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 3. When that I was and a little boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- Sonnets and Soliloquies
- no. 1. If music be the food of love (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- no. 2. Sonnet 116 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER GER ITA
- no. 3. Sonnet 128 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
- no. 4. Portia's Plea (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE POL SPA
- Southern Voices
- no. 1. Butterflies (Text: Archibald Randolph Ammons) [x]*
- no. 2. Lullaby (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
- no. 3. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter (Text: John Crowe Ransom) *
- no. 4. Berenice Sadie Brown (Text: Carson McCullers) [x]*
- The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
- no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
- no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
- no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
- no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
- no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
- no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
- no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
- no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
- no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
- no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
- no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
- no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
- no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
- no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
- no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
- no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
- no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
- The Life of the Bee
- no. 1. Millennium Approaches (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- no. 2. The Spirit of the Hive (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- no. 3. The Queen (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- no. 4. The Sting (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- no. 5. The Swarm (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- Three Ages of Woman
- no. 1. Manners (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- no. 2. Filling Station (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- no. 3. Insomnia (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Three Women
- no. ?. Miss Alma Calls (Text: Tennessee Williams) [x]*
- no. 2. Lady of the harbor (Text: Emma Lazarus)
- no. 3. The waltz (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
- Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud
- no. 1. Le cœur volé (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- no. 2. L'éternité (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- no. 3. Rêve pour l'hiver (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- Two Songs of Innocence
- Winter and Summer
- no. 1. Winter Hubris (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
- no. 2. Summer's Retort (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
All titles of vocal settings in Opus order
- A clear midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
- A letter (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- always, it's Spring (Text: E. E. Cummings)
- Angélique (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- An Immorality (Text: Ezra Pound)
- Anniversaire (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- A pocket of time (Text: Elizabeth Bishop)
- Autumn (Text: Harry Duncan after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER ITA
- Beginning my studies (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter (Text: John Crowe Ransom) *
- Berenice Sadie Brown (Text: Carson McCullers) [x]*
- Bermudas (Text: Andrew Marvell)
- Butterflies (Text: Archibald Randolph Ammons) [x]*
- Chant du kisandji (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- Come away, Death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- Evening (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- Filling Station (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Giant snail (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Giant Toad (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Go and catch a falling star (Text: John Donne) ITA
- How the Waters closed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- If music be the food of love (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- Insomnia (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- In the wand of the wind (Text: John Fandel) *
- Investiture at Cecconi's (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- I was there (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Jabberwocky (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll)
- Jean qui rit (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
- Joy, shipmate, joy! (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
- Lady of the harbor (Text: Emma Lazarus)
- Le cœur volé (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- L'éternité (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- Lied der Liebe (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin)
- Litanie XXIII (Text: John Donne)
- Love love today (Text: Charlotte Mew)
- Lucioles (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
- Lullaby (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
- Manners (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Millennium Approaches (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- Miss Alma Calls (Text: Tennessee Williams) [x]*
- Night (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- O captain! My captain! (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
- O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- O star (Text: John Fandel) [x]*
- Pierrot (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- Portia's Plea (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE POL SPA
- Rêve pour l'hiver (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
- Sandpiper (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- She tells her love while half asleep (Text: Robert Graves) *
- Sonnet 116 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER GER ITA
- Sonnet 128 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
- Strayed crab (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
- Summer's Retort (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
- The darkling thrush (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
- The doe (Text: John Fandel) *
- The dust of snow (Text: Robert Frost)
- The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- The message (Text: John Donne)
- The nightingale and the lark (Text: William Ball after Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev)
- The Queen (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (Text: Ezra Pound after Li-Tai-Po)
- The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
- The shining place (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
- The shroud (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- The Spirit of the Hive (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- The Sting (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- The Swarm (Text: Jeffery Beam)
- The waltz (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
- To an Isle in the Water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI
- Twenty-eight young men (Text: Walt Whitman)
- What if... (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- When that I was and a little boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- Where the music comes from (Text: Lee Hoiby) *
- Wild nights (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
- Winter Hubris (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
- Winter song (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
- op. 39. O Florida
- no. 1. Floral Decorations for Bananas (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 2. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- no. 3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 4. Before My Door (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- no. 5. O Florida (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
Last update: 2023-10-01 05:23:00