Author: Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972)
Text Compilations
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- 1943 (What sparks and wiry cries
) (from The Lordly Hudson) *
- N. Rorem: What sparks and wiry cries
- A prayer to Saint Harmony (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) - N. Rorem [x] *
- A sermon on miracles - N. Rorem [x] *
- A terrible disaster (A terrible disaster befell me ) - N. Rorem *
- A terrible disaster befell me
*
- N. Rorem: A terrible disaster
- Absalom (In the roomy oak among the fluttering leaves ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
- Boy with a Baseball Glove (See now the beauty with the glove ) (from A Warning/At My Leisure) - N. Rorem *
- Clouds (So effortlessly we are not given) - N. Rorem *
- Creator of the worlds, O Joy (Creator of the worlds, O Joy ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Creator of the worlds, O Joy
(from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Creator of the worlds, O Joy
- Creator spirit, please (Creator spirit, please let your soft lamp) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem *
- Creator spirit, please let your soft lamp (from Hawkweed) *
- N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Creator spirit, please
- Creator spirit who dost (Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem *
- Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem *
- Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not
(from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) *
- N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Creator spirit who dost
- Dawn (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Driver, what stream is it?" I asked, well knowing
(from The Lordly Hudson) *
- N. Rorem: The Lordly Hudson
- Father, guide and lead me (Father, guide and lead me stray) (from Empire City) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem *
- Father, guide and lead me stray (from Empire City) *
- N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Father, guide and lead me
- For Susan (How like a wild flower untended ) - N. Rorem *
- Four Senseless Little Prayers of Convalescence (On all, the wicked and) (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
- N. Rorem: On all, the wicked and
- God bless my small home (God bless this small home that) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
- God bless this small home that (from Hawkweed) [x] *
- N. Rorem: God bless my small home
- God, I prayed, to me restore (God, I prayed, to me restore) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
- God, I prayed, to me restore (from Hawkweed) [x] *
- N. Rorem: God, I prayed, to me restore
- His Beauty Sparkles (His beauty sparkles, his big eyes blaze) - N. Rorem *
- His beauty sparkles, his big eyes blaze *
- N. Rorem: His Beauty Sparkles
- How like a wild flower untended
*
- N. Rorem: For Susan
- I opened with my key, to my astonished joy (from Hawkweed) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Long lines
- I thought I woke: the midnight sun (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
- N. Rorem: The midnight sun
- I waited in the parlor (I waited in the parlor, Lord) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
- I waited in the parlor, Lord (from Hawkweed) [x] *
- N. Rorem: I waited in the parlor
- In the roomy oak among the fluttering leaves
(from The Lordly Hudson) *
- N. Rorem: Absalom
- Long lines (I opened with my key, to my astonished joy) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
- My world, my only! as I see (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
- J. Powell: My world, my only! as I see
- Novices of art understate (We see that novices of art) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Now is the dreadful midnight (Now is the dreadful midnight you) - N. Rorem *
- Now is the dreadful midnight you *
- N. Rorem: Now is the dreadful midnight
- O God of fire and the secret (O God of fire and the secret mus-) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
- O God of fire and the secret mus- (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
- N. Rorem: O God of fire and the secret
- Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (from The Lordly Hudson - Sentences) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave
- On all, the wicked and (On all, the wicked and) (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) - N. Rorem [x] *
- On all, the wicked and (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
- N. Rorem: On all, the wicked and
- Out of the tulip tree (Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes
) *
- N. Rorem: The tulip tree
- Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes
*
- N. Rorem: The tulip tree
- Rain - D. Hagen [x] *
- Rain in spring (There fell a beautiful clear rain) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Rest well (Rest well thy weary head and heart) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem [x] *
- Rest well thy weary head and heart (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
- N. Rorem, N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Rest well
- Rest well thy weary heart (Rest well thy weary head and heart) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Sally's smile (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
- See now the beauty with the glove
(from A Warning/At My Leisure) *
- N. Rorem: Boy with a Baseball Glove
- So effortlessly we are not given *
- N. Rorem: Clouds
- Such beauty as hurts to behold (Such beauty as hurts to behold) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Such beauty as hurts to behold (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Such beauty as hurts to behold
- The Lordly Hudson (Driver, what stream is it?" I asked, well knowing ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
- The midnight sun (I thought I woke: the midnight sun) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
- The tulip tree (Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes ) - N. Rorem *
- There fell a beautiful clear rain [x] *
- N. Rorem: Rain in spring
- Three Little Prayers to Saint Harmony (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
- N. Rorem: A prayer to Saint Harmony
- To Dawn (Manner of Sappho) (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Dawn
- We see that novices of art (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
- N. Rorem: Novices of art understate
- What sparks and wiry cries (What sparks and wiry cries ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
- What sparks and wiry cries
(from The Lordly Hudson) *
- N. Rorem: What sparks and wiry cries
Last update: 2015-05-09 15:46:38