Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Mayer
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A Death in the Family [opera]
- no. ?. Butterfly aria (Text: William Mayer) *
- no. ?. How far we all come away from ourselves (Text: William Mayer) *
- Eight Miniatures
- no. ?. Deeply down (Text: Elizabeth Aleinikoff)
- no. ?. "... For no man" (Text: William Mayer)
- no. ?. Prophetic soul (Text: Dorothy Parker)
- no. ?. Land of dead dreams (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- no. ?. Isn't there some mistake? (Text: William Mayer)
- Enter Ariel
- no. ?. hist whist (Text: E. E. Cummings)
- no. ?. Flotsam (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Four Madrigals
- no. 1. The passionate shepherd to his love (Text: Christopher Marlowe) GER GER
- no. 2. The nymph's reply to the passionate shepherd (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
- no. 3. Corinna's going a-Maying (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 4. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
- Passage
- no. ?. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
- no. ?. Limited (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- Two News Items
- no. 1. Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (a mélange of clichés) (Text: William Mayer) *
- no. 2. Distraught soprano undergoes unfortunate transformation (Text: William Mayer) *
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- Ae fond kiss (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER
- Butterfly aria (in A Death in the Family) (Text: William Mayer) *
- Corinna's going a-Maying (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Deeply down (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Elizabeth Aleinikoff)
- Distraught soprano undergoes unfortunate transformation (in Two News Items) (Text: William Mayer) *
- Dream variations (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Fern Hill (Text: Dylan Thomas)
- First song (Text: Galway Kinnell) *
- Flotsam (in Enter Ariel) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- "... For no man" (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: William Mayer)
- Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (a mélange of clichés) (in Two News Items) (Text: William Mayer) *
- hist whist (in Enter Ariel) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
- How far we all come away from ourselves (in A Death in the Family) (Text: William Mayer) *
- Isn't there some mistake? (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: William Mayer)
- Khartoum (Text: William Mayer) *
- La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
- La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
- Land of dead dreams (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- Limited (in Passage) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- Lover's lament (Text: William Mayer) [x]*
- Prophetic soul (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Dorothy Parker)
- That purple bird (Text: William Mayer) [x]*
- The nymph's reply to the passionate shepherd (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
- The passionate shepherd to his love (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Christopher Marlowe) GER GER
- To Electra (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
- What lips my lips have kissed (in Passage) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
Last update: 2024-02-25 22:15:47