Author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

Text Compilations

• Composition as Explanation
• Geography and Plays
• Portraits and Prayers
• Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems
• Tender Buttons
• The World Is Round

Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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• A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A blue coat)
• A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A blue coat)
• A blue coat (A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A blue coat (A blue coat is guided guided away, guided and guided away) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A box (Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A box (Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A charm a single charm is doubtful (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (Nothing elegant)
• A charm a single charm is doubtful (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (Nothing elegant)
• A cool red rose and a pink cut pink (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (Red Roses)
• A cool red rose and a pink cut pink (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (Red roses)
• A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A paper)
• A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A paper)
• A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is monstrous ordinarily (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A red hat)
• A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is monstrous ordinarily (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A red hat)
• A dog (A little monkey goes like a donkey) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A dog (A little monkey goes like a donkey) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Michael Ippolito (A Feather)
• A Feather (A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Michael Ippolito
• A fire (What was the use of a whole time to send and not send) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A fire (What was the use of a whole time to send and not send) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• Aider, why aider why whow, whow stop touch, aider whow (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (This is this dress, aider)
• Aider, why aider why whow, whow stop touch, aider whow (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (This is this dress, aider)
• A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A petticoat)
• A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A petticoat)
• A little monkey goes like a donkey (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A dog)
• A little monkey goes like a donkey (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A dog)
• An elegant use of foliage and grace (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (More)
• An elegant use of foliage and grace (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (More)
• A paper (A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A paper (A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing (from Geography and Plays) (A Portrait of F. B.)
• A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing (from Geography and Plays) - Virgil Garnett Thomson (Portrait of F. B. (Frances Blood))
• A petticoat (A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A petticoat (A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A pleasant simple habitual and tyrannical and authorised and educated (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A time to eat)
• A pleasant simple habitual and tyrannical and authorised and educated (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A time to eat)
• A Portrait of F. B. (A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing) (from Geography and Plays)
• April Fool Baby (It seems to be a note to she the sweet sweetie) - Paul Frederic Bowles
• A red hat (A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is monstrous ordinarily) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A red hat (A dark grey, a very dark grey, a quite dark grey is monstrous ordinarily) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A sound (Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A sound (Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• A time to eat (A pleasant simple habitual and tyrannical and authorised and educated) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• A time to eat (A pleasant simple habitual and tyrannical and authorised and educated) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded () - Wayland Rogers [x]
• Cousin to Clare washing (from Composition as Explanation) (Preciosilla)
• Cousin to Clare washing (from Composition as Explanation) - Virgil Garnett Thomson (Preciosilla)
• Does he or she does she or he - Vivian Fine (The human mind)
• Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A sound)
• Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A sound)
• George and Genevieve. Geronimo with a with whether they thought they were with whether (from Portraits and Prayers) (George Hugnet)
• George and Genevieve (from Portraits and Prayers) (George Hugnet)
• George and Genevieve (from Portraits and Prayers) - Christopher Berg (George Hugnet)
• George Hugnet (George and Genevieve) (from Portraits and Prayers)
• George Hugnet (George and Genevieve) (from Portraits and Prayers) - Christopher Berg
• Go lack go lack use to her (from Tender Buttons - Food) (Orange in)
• Go lack go lack use to her (from Tender Buttons - Food) - Alan Thomas (Orange in)
• I am Rose my eyes are blue (from The World Is Round - There) - David Leo Diamond, Daron Aric Hagen, Ned Rorem (I am Rose)
• I am Rose (I am Rose my eyes are blue) (from The World Is Round - There) - David Leo Diamond, Daron Aric Hagen, Ned Rorem
• I knew too that through them I knew too that he was through [x] - William Flanagan (Valentine to Sherwood Anderson)
• In the country () - Wayland Rogers [x]
• It seems to be a note to she the sweet sweetie - Paul Frederic Bowles (April Fool Baby)
• Letter to Freddy (My dear Freddy) - Paul Frederic Bowles
• Loving is certain if one is going on loving [x] - Wayland Rogers (Loving is certain)
• Loving is certain (Loving is certain if one is going on loving) - Wayland Rogers [x]
• Meditation (Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose) (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems) - Gunther Schuller
• More (An elegant use of foliage and grace) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• More (An elegant use of foliage and grace) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• My dear Freddy, I did not answer sooner because being a little troubled about you
• My dear Freddy - Paul Frederic Bowles (Letter to Freddy)
• Nothing elegant (A charm a single charm is doubtful) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• Nothing elegant (A charm a single charm is doubtful) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• Orange in (Go lack go lack use to her) (from Tender Buttons - Food)
• Orange in (Go lack go lack use to her) (from Tender Buttons - Food) - Alan Thomas
• Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A box)
• Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A box)
• Play, play every day, play and play and play away, and then play (Play)
• Play, play every day, play and play and play away, and then play - Steffen Reinhold (Play)
• Play (Play, play every day, play and play and play away, and then play)
• Play (Play, play every day, play and play and play away, and then play) - Steffen Reinhold
• Portrait of F. B. (Frances Blood) (A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing) (from Geography and Plays) - Virgil Garnett Thomson
• Preciosilla (Cousin to Clare washing) (from Composition as Explanation)
• Preciosilla (Cousin to Clare washing) (from Composition as Explanation) - Virgil Garnett Thomson
• Red Roses (A cool red rose and a pink cut pink) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• Red roses (A cool red rose and a pink cut pink) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• Stanza LXXXIII (Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose) (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems)
• Susie Asado (Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea) (from Geography and Plays)
• Susie Asado (Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea) (from Geography and Plays) - Christopher Berg, Virgil Garnett Thomson
• Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea (from Geography and Plays) (Susie Asado)
• Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea (from Geography and Plays) - Christopher Berg, Virgil Garnett Thomson (Susie Asado)
• The human mind (Does he or she does she or he) - Vivian Fine
• This is this dress, aider (Aider, why aider why whow, whow stop touch, aider whow) (from Tender Buttons - Objects)
• This is this dress, aider (Aider, why aider why whow, whow stop touch, aider whow) (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas
• Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (I knew too that through them I knew too that he was through) - William Flanagan [x]
• Well Welcome (Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose) (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems) - Richard Hundley
• What was the use of a whole time to send and not send (from Tender Buttons - Objects) (A fire)
• What was the use of a whole time to send and not send (from Tender Buttons - Objects) - Alan Thomas (A fire)
• Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems) - Gunther Schuller (Meditation)
• Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems) (Stanza LXXXIII)
• Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose (from Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems) - Richard Hundley (Well Welcome)

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