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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Del Tredici

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David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023)

Website: https://www.daviddeltredici.com/

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano
    • no. 1. The Fever of Love (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
    • no. 2. Eating Babies (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
    • no. 3. Tired Sex (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
    • no. 4. The Stutter (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
    • no. 5. Clear and Cold (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
    • no. 6. Alone on the Mountain (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • Final Alice
    • no. 5. Acrostic Song (Alice Pleasance Liddell) (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
  • Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce
    • no. 1. Dove song (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
    • no. 2. She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 3. A flower given to my daughter (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
    • no. 4. Monotone (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
  • Gay Life for baritone and piano
    • no. 1. Ode to Wildwood (Text: Michael D. Calhoun) [x]*
    • no. 2. In the Temple (Text: Wilson Hand Kidde) [x]*
    • no. 3. Personals Ad (Text: Allen Ginsberg) [x]*
    • no. 4. After the Parade [x]*
    • no. 5. Here (Text: Paul Monette) [x]*
    • no. 6. Memory Unsettled (A Farewell), (Text: Thom Gunn) [x]*
  • Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano
    • no. 1. Children (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 2. A Giant Wave (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 3. A Few Romances (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 4. Walking (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 5. Rebellion (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 6. A Good Cry (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 7. A Point of Contention (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 8. Sweeter (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
    • no. 9. David (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • Love Addiction for baritone and piano
    • no. 1. I I I I I (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 2. Passion Lurking (Ballad) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 3. These Lousy Corridors (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 4. The "L" Word (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 5. Post-Performance Discussion (Recitative) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 6. This Solid Ground / The Best By Far (Aria) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 7. The State of the Soul (Chorale Prelude) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
    • no. 8. Brother (Lament) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano
    • no. 1. Alive and Taking Names (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
    • no. 2. The Happy Child (Text: Colette Inez) [x]
    • no. 3. Good News! Nilda is Back! (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
    • no. 4. The Beckoning (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
    • no. 5. Chateauneuf Du Pape, The Pope's Valet Speaks (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
  • My Favorite Penis Poems
    • no. 1. Now You Know (Text: Brad Burdick , as Antler) [x]*
    • no. 2. Die Forelle (Text: Marilyn Kalett) [x]*
    • no. 3. Street Instructions: At the Crotch (Text: Edward Field) [x]*
    • no. 4. Hot to Trot (Text: Alfred Corn) [x]*
    • no. 5. Importance of Gourdcrafting (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]*
    • no. 6. Please Master (Text: Allen Ginsberg) [x]*
  • Night Conjure-Verse
    • no. 1. Simples (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 2. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • On Wings of Song
    • no. 1. I Can Change (Text: David Brunetti) [x]*
    • no. 2. New Year's Eve (Text: Carla Drysdale) [x]*
    • no. 3. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
    • no. 4. Abide With Me (Text: Henry Francis Lyte) GER GER ITA
    • no. 5. A Visitation (Text: Edward Field) [x]*
  • Syzygy
    • no. 1. Ecce puer (Text: James Joyce)
    • no. 2. Nightpiece (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Three Baritone Songs
    • no. 1. Quietness (Text: Coleman Barks after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) *
    • no. 2. Drinking Song (Text: Michael Klein) [x]*
    • no. 3. Matthew Shepard (Text: Jaime Manrique) [x]*
  • Two Songs on Poems of James Joyce
    • no. 1. Bahnhofstrasse (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 2. Alone (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Abide With Me (in On Wings of Song) (Text: Henry Francis Lyte) GER GER ITA
  • Acrostic Song (Alice Pleasance Liddell) (in Final Alice) (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
  • A Few Romances (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • A flower given to my daughter (in Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
  • After the Parade (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) [x]*
  • A Giant Wave (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • A Good Cry (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • Alive and Taking Names (in Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
  • Alone on the Mountain (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • Alone (in Two Songs on Poems of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight (in Night Conjure-Verse) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • A Point of Contention (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • A Visitation (in On Wings of Song) (Text: Edward Field) [x]*
  • Bahnhofstrasse (in Two Songs on Poems of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Ballad in Yellow (Text: Jerome Rothenberg after Federico García Lorca) [x]*
  • Brother (Lament) (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • Chateauneuf Du Pape, The Pope's Valet Speaks (in Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
  • Children (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • Clear and Cold (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • David (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • Die Forelle (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Marilyn Kalett) [x]*
  • Dove song (in Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
  • Drinking Song (in Three Baritone Songs) (Text: Michael Klein) [x]*
  • Eating Babies (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • Ecce puer (in Syzygy) (Text: James Joyce)
  • Good News! Nilda is Back! (in Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
  • Here (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) (Text: Paul Monette) [x]*
  • Hot to Trot (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Alfred Corn) [x]*
  • I I I I I (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • I Can Change (in On Wings of Song) (Text: David Brunetti) [x]*
  • I hear an army (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Importance of Gourdcrafting (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]*
  • In the Temple (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) (Text: Wilson Hand Kidde) [x]*
  • Matthew Shepard (in Three Baritone Songs) (Text: Jaime Manrique) [x]*
  • Memory Unsettled (A Farewell), (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) (Text: Thom Gunn) [x]*
  • Monotone (in Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
  • New Year's Eve (in On Wings of Song) (Text: Carla Drysdale) [x]*
  • Nightpiece (in Syzygy) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Now You Know (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Brad Burdick , as Antler) [x]*
  • Ode to Wildwood (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) (Text: Michael D. Calhoun) [x]*
  • Passion Lurking (Ballad) (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • Personals Ad (in Gay Life for baritone and piano) (Text: Allen Ginsberg) [x]*
  • Please Master (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Allen Ginsberg) [x]*
  • Post-Performance Discussion (Recitative) (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • Quietness (in Three Baritone Songs) (Text: Coleman Barks after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) *
  • Rebellion (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • She weeps over Rahoon (in Four Songs on Texts of James Joyce) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Simples (in Night Conjure-Verse) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Street Instructions: At the Crotch (in My Favorite Penis Poems) (Text: Edward Field) [x]*
  • Sweeter (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • The Beckoning (in Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Colette Inez) [x]*
  • The Fever of Love (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • The Happy Child (in Miz Inez sez. A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Colette Inez) [x]
  • The "L" Word (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • These Lousy Corridors (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • The Soprano's Highest Note (Text: Brad Burdick , as Antler) [x]*
  • The State of the Soul (Chorale Prelude) (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • The Stutter (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • This Solid Ground / The Best By Far (Aria) (in Love Addiction for baritone and piano) (Text: John Kelly) [x]*
  • Tired Sex (in Chana's Story. A Cycle of Six Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Chana Bloch) [x]*
  • Vintage Alice (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) [x]
  • Walking (in Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. A Cycle of Nine Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Joshua Beckman) [x]*
  • What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (in On Wings of Song) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER

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