Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Barber

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Despite and still, op. 41
• no. 1. A last song (Text: Robert Graves) *
• no. 2. My lizard (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• no. 3. In the wilderness (Text: Robert Graves) FRE
• no. 4. Solitary hotel (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
• no. 5. Despite and still (Text: Robert Graves) *
• Hermit songs (Chansons d'ermite, translated by Guy Laffaille), op. 29 FRE
• no. 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• no. 2. Church bell at night (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• no. 3. Saint Ita's vision (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) * FRE SPA
• no. 4. The heavenly banquet (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after St. Brigid) * FRE
• no. 5. The crucifixion [multi-text setting] (Text: Jones) SPA ENG FRE
• no. 6. Sea-snatch (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE GER
• no. 7. Promiscuity (Text: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE GER
• no. 8. The monk and his cat (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ FRE
• no. 9. The praises of God (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ FRE
• no. 10. The desire for hermitage (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• Mélodies passagères (Fleeting songs, translated by Thomas A. Gregg) (Melodies passatgeres, translated by Salvador Pila) (Vergängliche Weisen, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 27 ENG CAT GER
• no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER SPA
• no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG ENG GER
• no. 3. Tombeau dans un parc (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER
• no. 4. Le clocher chante (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
• no. 5. Départ (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
• Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music, op. 7
• no. 1. Jack and Jill (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 2. God bless you! (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. I love little pussy (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 4. Two old men [multi-text setting] (Text: Lear)
• no. 5. Tom, Tom, the piper's son (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 6. The Rockaby Lady (Text: Eugene Field)
• no. 7. I do not like thee, Dr. Fell (Text: Anonymous)
• Reincarnations, op. 16
• no. 1. Mary Hynes (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• no. 2. Anthony O'Daly (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• no. 3. The coolin (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• Three Songs, op. 45
• no. 1. Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
• no. 2. A green lowland of pianos (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) ⊗*
• no. 3. O boundless, boundless evening (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA
• Three Songs: The Words from Old England
• no. 1. Lady, when I behold the roses
• no. 2. An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• no. 3. Hey Nonny No!
• Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra", op. 40
• no. 1. On the death of Antony [multi-text setting] (Text: Shakespeare) FRE
• no. 2. On the death of Cleopatra (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• Two Poems of the Wind
• no. 1. Little children of the wind (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• no. 2. Longing (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Two Songs of Youth
• no. 1. Invocation to Youth (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• no. 2. I never thought that youth would go (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)
• Vanessa [opera]
• Under the willow tree (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
• Must the winter come so soon? (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Agnus Dei, op. 11 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER IRI ITA MUL
• A green lowland of pianos, op. 45 no. 2 (in Three Songs) (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) ⊗*
• A last song, op. 41 no. 1 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves) *
• An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (in Three Songs: The Words from Old England) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• Anthony O'Daly, op. 16 no. 2 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• A nun takes the veil, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 1 (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
• A slumber song of the Madonna (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• A stopwatch and an ordnance map, op. 15 (Text: Stephen Spender) [x]*
• At Saint Patrick's Purgatory, op. 29 no. 1 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• Au clair de la lune (Text: Anonymous) ENG GER SPA
• Bessie Bobtail, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: James Stephens)
• Church bell at night, op. 29 no. 2 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• Départ, op. 27 no. 5 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
• Dere two fella Joe (Text: Anonymous)
• Despite and still, op. 41 no. 5 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves) *
• Dover Beach, op. 3 (Text: Matthew Arnold) GER LIT
• Easter Chorale (Text: Pack Browning)
• God bless you!, op. 7 no. 2 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Anonymous)
• God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Hey Nonny No! (in Three Songs: The Words from Old England)
• Hunting song (Text: John Bennett)
• I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, op. 7 no. 7 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Anonymous)
• I hear an army, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• I love little pussy, op. 7 no. 3 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Anonymous)
• I never thought that youth would go (in Two Songs of Youth) (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)
• In the dark pinewood (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• In the wilderness, op. 41 no. 3 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves) FRE
• Invocation to Youth (in Two Songs of Youth) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• Jack and Jill, op. 7 no. 1 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Anonymous)
• Knoxville, Summer of 1915, op. 24 (Text: James Agee) *
• Lady, when I behold the roses (in Three Songs: The Words from Old England)
• La nuit (Text: Alfred Meurath)
• Le clocher chante, op. 27 no. 4 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
• Let down the bars, O Death, op. 8 no. 2 (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Little children of the wind (in Two Poems of the Wind) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Longing (in Two Poems of the Wind) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Love at the door (Text: John Addington Symonds after Meleager of Gadara) ⊗
• Love's caution (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Man (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
• Mary Hynes, op. 16 no. 1 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• Monks and raisins, op. 18 (Two songs) no. 2 (Text: José Garcia Villa) *
• Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
• Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• Must the winter come so soon? (in Vanessa) (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
• My Fairyland (Text: Robert T. Kerlin)
• My lizard, op. 41 no. 2 (in Despite and still) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Night wanderers (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Nocturne, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 4 (Text: Frederic Prokosch) *
• Now have I fed and eaten up the rose, op. 45 no. 1 (in Three Songs) (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
• Nuvoletta, op. 25 (Text: James Joyce)
• O boundless, boundless evening, op. 45 no. 3 (in Three Songs) (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA
• Of that so sweet imprisonment (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• On the death of Antony, op. 40 no. 1 [multi-text setting] (in Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra") (Text: Shakespeare) FRE
• On the death of Cleopatra, op. 40 no. 2 (in Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra") (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• Peace (Text: Paul Elmer More after Bhartrihari) ⊗
• Promiscuity, op. 29 no. 7 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE GER
• Puisque tout passe, op. 27 no. 1 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER SPA
• Rain has fallen, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL SPA
• Saint Ita's vision, op. 29 no. 3 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) * FRE SPA
• Sea-snatch, op. 29 no. 6 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE GER
• Sleep now, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
• Solitary hotel, op. 41 no. 4 (in Despite and still) (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Sure on this shining night, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 3 (Text: James Agee) * SPA
• The beggar's song (Text: William Henry Davies)
• The coolin, op. 16 no. 3 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí) ⊗
• The crucifixion, op. 29 no. 5 [multi-text setting] (in Hermit songs) (Text: Jones) SPA ENG FRE
• The daisies, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: James Stephens) SPA
• The desire for hermitage, op. 29 no. 10 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
• The heavenly banquet, op. 29 no. 4 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after St. Brigid) * FRE
• The monk and his cat, op. 29 no. 8 (in Hermit songs) (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ FRE
• The praises of God, op. 29 no. 9 (in Hermit songs) (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ FRE
• The queen's face on the summery coin, op. 18 (Two songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Horan) *
• There's nae lark (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• The Rockaby Lady, op. 7 no. 6 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Eugene Field)
• The secrets of the old, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 2 (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The Virgin Martyrs, op. 8 no. 1 (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Siegbert of Gembloux) ⊗
• Thy love GER
• To be sung on the water, op. 42 no. 2 (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
• Tombeau dans un parc, op. 27 no. 3 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER
• Tom, Tom, the piper's son, op. 7 no. 5 (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Anonymous)
• Twelfth Night, op. 42 no. 1 (Text: Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee) [x]*
• Two old men, op. 7 no. 4 [multi-text setting] (in Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music) (Text: Lear)
• Un cygne, op. 27 no. 2 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG ENG GER
• Under the willow tree (in Vanessa) (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
• With rue my heart is laden, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

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