Author: Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Text Compilations
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
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.
- And their faces grew pale [possibly misattributed] * - Earl Kim (The Departure)
- At the (edge) of the forest [possibly misattributed] * - Earl Kim (The girl with orange lips)
- Credentials or Think, think lucky () (from Waiting for Godot) - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati [x] *
- fin fond du néant (from Mirlitonnades) * - Stefano Gervasoni
- from Drunken Boat (I have seen the low sun (stained) with mystic signs) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] *
- I have seen the low sun (stained) with mystic signs [possibly misattributed] * - Earl Kim (from Drunken Boat)
- imagine si ceci (from Mirlitonnades) * - Stefano Gervasoni
- I picked this spray of Heather [possibly misattributed] GER HUN * - Earl Kim (The Farewell)
- it's raining women's voices as if they were dead even in memory [possibly misattributed] GER * - Earl Kim (It's raining)
- It's raining (it's raining women's voices as if they were dead even in memory) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] GER *
- Listen to it rain, listen to it rain [possibly misattributed] * - Earl Kim (Listen to it rain)
- Listen to it rain (Listen to it rain, listen to it rain) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] *
- On the calm black water where the stars sleep [possibly misattributed] ITA * - Earl Kim (Ophelia)
- Ophelia (On the calm black water where the stars sleep) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] ITA *
- The Departure (And their faces grew pale) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] *
- The Farewell (I picked this spray of Heather) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] GER HUN *
- The girl with orange lips (At the (edge) of the forest) - Earl Kim [possibly misattributed] *
- Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? (from Waiting for Godot) * - Jeffrey Cohen (Was I sleeping ...?)
- Was I sleeping ...? (Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now?) (from Waiting for Godot) - Jeffrey Cohen *
Last update: 2020-02-04 22:04:04