Texts by E. Bishop 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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- Across the floor flits the mechanical toy - J. Harbison (Cirque d'hiver) *
- Alone on the railroad track - J. Harbison (Chemin de Fer) *
- Anaphora (Each day with so much ceremony) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
- And now creeps down - J. Hall (Imber Nocturnus) *
- An endless and flooded - J. Plant *
- A pocket of time (We lived in a pocket of Time) - L. Hoiby
- Argument (Days that cannot bring you near) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
- At four o’clock - J. Hall (Roosters) *
- A washing hangs upon the line (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison (Ballad for Billie I) *
- A word with you () - J. Hall [x] *
- Ballad for Billie I (A washing hangs upon the line) (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison *
- Ballad for Billie II (The time has come to call a halt) (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison *
- Bedlam () (from Questions of Travel) - N. Rorem [x] *
- Beneath that loved and celebrated breast (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - E. Carter (O breath) *
- Breakfast song (My love, my saving grace) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
- Caught -- the bubble - A. Thomas *
- Chemin de Fer (Alone on the railroad track) - J. Harbison *
- Cirque d'hiver (Across the floor flits the mechanical toy) - J. Harbison *
- Conversation (The tumult in the heart) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - N. Rorem *
- Days that cannot bring you near (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter (Argument) *
- Dear, my compass... (Dear, my compass) - J. Harbison *
- Dear, my compass - J. Harbison *
- Each day with so much ceremony (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter (Anaphora) *
- Filling Station (Oh, but it is dirty!) - L. Hoiby *
- From a magician's midnight sleeve (from North and South) - J. Harbison (Late air) *
- From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning - S. Smith (Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore) *
- Giant snail (The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all) - L. Hoiby *
- Giant Toad (I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me) - L. Hoiby *
- I am in need of music that would flow - J. Cloud, C. Hatzis, A. Henderson, L. Laitman, B. Moore, T. Picker (Sonnet) *
- I am in need of music (I am in need of music that would flow) - C. Hatzis, A. Henderson, L. Laitman, B. Moore, T. Picker *
- I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me - L. Hoiby (Giant Toad) *
- I caught a tremendous fish - W. Bolcom *
- Imber nocturnus (And now creeps down) - J. Hall *
- Insomnia (The moon in the bureau mirror) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby *
- Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore (From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning) - S. Smith *
- Late air (From a magician's midnight sleeve) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
- Manners (My grandfather said to me) - L. Hoiby *
- Moving from left to left, the light (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter (View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress) *
- My grandfather said to me - L. Hoiby *
- My love, my saving grace (from North and South) - J. Harbison (Breakfast song) *
- O breath (Beneath that loved and celebrated breast) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - E. Carter *
- Oh, but it is dirty! - L. Hoiby (Filling Station) *
- One art () - J. Hall [x] *
- Roosters (At four o’clock) - J. Hall *
- Sandpiper (The roaring alongside he takes for granted) (from Questions of Travel) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby, J. Plant *
- Sleep standing up () - D. Schlosberg [x] *
- Song (Summer is over upon the sea) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
- Sonnet (1928) (I am in need of music that would flow) - J. Cloud *
- Sonnet (Caught -- the bubble) - A. Thomas *
- Sonnet (I am in need of music that would flow) *
- Sonnet () - J. Hall [x] *
- Strayed crab (This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must) - L. Hoiby *
- Summer is over upon the sea (from North and South) - J. Harbison (Song) *
- Sunday, 4 a.m. (An endless and flooded) - J. Plant *
- The fish (I caught a tremendous fish) - W. Bolcom *
- The moon in the bureau mirror (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby (Insomnia) *
- The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night (Giant Snail) - L. Hoiby *
- The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all - L. Hoiby (Giant Snail) *
- The roaring alongside he takes for granted (from Questions of Travel) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby, J. Plant (Sandpiper) *
- The silken water is weaving and weaving (The silken water is weaving and weaving) (from Cape Breton) - A. MacLean *
- The silken water is weaving and weaving (from Cape Breton) - A. MacLean *
- The time has come to call a halt (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison (Ballad for Billie II) *
- The tumult in the heart (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - N. Rorem (Conversation) *
- The wave () - J. Hall [x] *
- This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must - L. Hoiby (Strayed Crab) *
- This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? (Strayed Crab) - L. Hoiby *
- View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress (Moving from left to left, the light) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
- Visits to St. Elizabeth's () (from Questions of Travel) - N. Rorem [x] *
- We lived in a pocket of Time - L. Hoiby
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