Texts by Matsuo Bashō set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers.
Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. First lines appear in italics.
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.

• Basho: Blühendes Gras (Blühendes Gras) - H. Holliger (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Bell tones () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Blühendes Gras - H. Holliger (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Butterfly (Wake, butterfly) - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Cloche () - A. Souris (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Contrasts (The Autumn gloaming deepens into night) (from The Master-Singers of Japan) ⊗
• Cuckoo --/ sing, fly, sing - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Cuckoo (Cuckoo --/ sing, fly, sing) - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Dawn flowers (While moon sets) - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Die grauen Berge (from Liebe, Tod und Vollmondnächte. Übertragungen japanischer Gedichte) ⊗
• Dieser Herbststurm (Dieser Herbststurm!) - D. Lapinskas ENG ⊗ *
• Dieser Herbststurm! ENG - D. Lapinskas ⊗ *
• È sera ormai (è sera ormai) - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• è sera ormai - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Four Short Pieces for Soprano [song cycle] () - L. Alston [x]
• Guardiamo la neve (Vieni, andiamo) - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• 古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音
• Hawk's eyes () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• In my dark winter - P. Amsel (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Kommt ins Helle und atmet nicht! (from Liebe, Tod und Vollmondnächte. Übertragungen japanischer Gedichte) (Schneeflocke) - F. Focke ⊗
• Lightning gleam () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Lightning --/ heron-cry (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Lightning - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Nothing in the cry ⊗ *
• Old pond () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• On a journey () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Orchid -- breathing - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Per arrivare alle nuvole (Prendiamo/ il sentiero paludoso) - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Poem (The Autumn gloaming deepens into night) (from The Master-Singers of Japan) - P. Campbell ⊗
• Prendiamo/ il sentiero paludoso - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Schneeflocke (Kommt ins Helle und atmet nicht!) (from Liebe, Tod und Vollmondnächte. Übertragungen japanischer Gedichte) ⊗
• Skylark on moor - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Skylark (Skylark on moor) - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• So cold are the waves ⊗
• Song of the cuckoo () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
• So still... () - B. Connyngham (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) [x] ⊗
• Spring morning marvel - P. Amsel (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• The Autumn gloaming deepens into night (from The Master-Singers of Japan) - P. Campbell (Contrasts) ⊗
• Two white butterflies (Will we meet again?) - M. Garwood (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Under my tree-roof - P. Amsel (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Vieni, andiamo - C. Ferrari (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Wake, butterfly - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• While moon sets - A. Thomas (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Will we meet again? - M. Garwood (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
• Winter evening snow - P. Amsel (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗

Last update: 2025-06-24 02:12:08