Texts by E. Pound set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- A girl (The tree has entered my hands) - R. Heppener *
- Alba (As cool as the pale wet leaves) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
- Ancient Music (Winter is icumen in) - G. Bachlund
- An Immorality (Sing we for love and idleness) (from Ripostes) - A. Copland, L. Hoiby, J. Koch, B. Weber
- April (Nympharum membra disjecta) (from Personae) - H. Cowell *
- Aria () (from Canzoni) - W. Rummel [x]
- As cool as the pale wet leaves (from Lustra) - M. Dalby (Alba)
- Au bal masqué () - W. Rummel [x]
- A Virginal (No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately) (from Ripostes) - S. Gerber
- Beautiful Women (It rests me to be among beautiful women) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
- Blue mountains to the north of the walls (from Cathay) GER GER SLN - O. Greif
- By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand (from Cathay) - G. Bantock (Lament of the Frontier Guard)
- Canto XXX (Compleynt, compleynt) [x] *
- Coitus (The gilded phaloi of the crocuses) (from Lustra)
- Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are - J. Holbrooke (The Garret)
- Compleynt, compleynt - G. Binkerd (Canto XXX) [x] *
- Compleynt, compleynt (Compleynt, compleynt) - G. Binkerd [x] *
- Dance Figure (Dark-eyed,/ O woman of my dreams) (from Lustra) - S. Gerber
- Dark-eyed,/ O woman of my dreams (from Lustra) - S. Gerber (Dance Figure)
- Empty are the ways (from Lustra) - W. Strickland (Ione, Dead the Long Year)
- Envoi (Go, dumb-born book) (from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) - A. Hinton
- Epilogue (O chansons foregoing) (from Lustra)
- Epitaphs (Fu I/ Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill) (from Lustra) - G. Binkerd
- Eros (The gilded phaloi of the crocuses) (from Lustra) - A. Lerdahl
- Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord (O fan of white silk) (from Lustra)
- Fan-Piece (O fan of white silk) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
- Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days - D. Diamond (Ladies)
- Four Ladies (Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days) - D. Diamond
- Fu I/ Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill (from Lustra) - J. Avshalomov, G. Binkerd (Epitaphs)
- Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill (from Lustra) (Epitaphs) - J. Avshalomov, G. Binkerd
- Fu-Yi (Fu I/ Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill) (from Lustra) - J. Avshalomov
- Go, dumb-born book (from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) - A. Hinton (Envoi)
- Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth (from Lustra) (L'art, 1910) - G. Bachlund
- Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots - G. Bantock (Song of the Bowmen of Shu) ⊗
- Histrion (No man hath dared to write this thing as yet) - W. Bolcom *
- In a Station of the Metro (The apparition of these faces in the crowd) (from Lustra)
- Ione, Dead the Long Year (Empty are the ways) (from Lustra) - W. Strickland
- It rests me to be among beautiful women (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund, J. Holbrooke, J. Koch (Tame Cat)
- I would bathe myself in strangeness - R. Heppener *
- Ladies (Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days)
- Lament of the Frontier Guard (By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand) (from Cathay) - G. Bantock
- L'art, 1910 (Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth) (from Lustra)
- My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender - R. Heppener *
- No man hath dared to write this thing as yet - W. Bolcom *
- No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately (from Ripostes) - S. Gerber (A Virginal)
- Nympharum membra disjecta (from Personae) - H. Cowell (April) *
- N.Y. (My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender) - R. Heppener *
- O chansons foregoing (from Lustra) (Epilogue) - G. Bachlund
- O fan of white silk (from Lustra) - M. Dalby (Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord)
- O generation of the thoroughly smug (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke (Salutation)
- Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead - R. Heppener *
- Pan is dead (Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead) - R. Heppener *
- Salutation (O generation of the thoroughly smug) (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke
- See, they return; ah, see the tentative (from Ripostes) - W. Rummel (The return)
- Sing we for love and idleness (from Ripostes) - A. Copland, L. Hoiby, J. Koch, B. Weber (An Immorality)
- Song of the Bowmen of Shu (Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots) - G. Bantock ⊗
- Taking leave of a friend (Blue mountains to the north of the walls) (from Cathay) - O. Greif GER GER SLN
- Tame Cat (It rests me to be among beautiful women) (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke, J. Koch
- The apparition of these faces in the crowd (from Lustra) - M. Dalby (In a Station of the Metro)
- The faces (The apparition of these faces in the crowd) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
- The Garret (Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are) - J. Holbrooke
- The gilded phaloi of the crocuses (from Lustra) - A. Lerdahl (Coitus)
- The girl in the tea shop (The girl in the tea shop) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
- The girl in the tea shop (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund, J. Holbrooke, J. Koch (The Tea Shop)
- The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew GER GER UKR FRE RUS RUS - B. Hall-Johnston
- The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew) - B. Hall-Johnston GER GER UKR FRE RUS RUS
- The petals fall in the fountain (from Lustra) - M. Dalby (Ts'ai Chi'h)
- The plunge (I would bathe myself in strangeness) - R. Heppener *
- The return (See, they return; ah, see the tentative) (from Ripostes) - W. Rummel
- The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead) (from Cathay) - L. Hoiby, L. Regteren-Altena ⊗
- The River-Merchant's Wife (While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead) (from Cathay) - K. Ginther, L. Willingham ⊗
- The Tea-Shop Girl (The girl in the tea shop) (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke
- The Tea Shop (The girl in the tea shop) (from Lustra) - J. Koch
- The tree has entered my hands - R. Heppener *
- Three spirits came to me (from Personae) (April) - H. Cowell *
- Ts'ai Chi'h (The petals fall in the fountain) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
- While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead (from Cathay) - K. Ginther, L. Hoiby, L. Regteren-Altena, L. Willingham (The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter) ⊗
- Winter is icumen in - G. Bachlund
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