Texts by C. Symphosius set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Aenigmata

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.

• All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men * - E. Vercoe
• ambo sumus lapides, una sumus, ambo iacemus (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• A modest maid am I, yet not, perhaps, too meek (Echo) -
• Chain (To me, and through me fortune is unkind) - E. Vercoe *
• Chick in the Egg (Mine was the strangest birth under the sun) - E. Vercoe *
• clepsydra (water clock) (lex bona dicendi, lex sum quoque dura tacendi) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• Dentibus innumeris sum toto corpore plena (from Aenigmata) ENG
• Echo (A modest maid am I, yet not, perhaps, too meek)
• Echo (virgo modesta nimis legem bene servo pudoris) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• Est domus in terris, clara quae voce resultat (from Aenigmata) ENG
• Four equal sisters and they run with skill (Wheels) -
• Hard rule of silence I, good rule of speech (Water clock) -
• Hobnail (Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head) - E. Vercoe *
• Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head * - E. Vercoe
• I bite when bitten; but because I lack * - E. Vercoe
• I have borne more than a body ought to bear * - E. Vercoe
• In caput ingredior, quia de pede pendeo solo (from Aenigmata) ENG
• lex bona dicendi, lex sum quoque dura tacendi (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• Mill / Mule (Though twain, I'm one, two stones together lie)
• Mine was the strangest birth under the sun * - E. Vercoe
• Mira tibi referam nostrae primordia vitae (from Aenigmata) ENG
• Mirror (No shape is strange to me, yet none I know)
• mola / mula (mill / mule) (ambo sumus lapides, una sumus, ambo iacemus) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• Mordeo mordentes, ultro non mordeo quemquam (from Aenigmata) ENG
• Mother of Twins (I have borne more than a body ought to bear) - E. Vercoe *
• Nexa ligor ferro, multos habitura ligatos (from Aenigmata) ENG
• No shape is strange to me, yet none I know (Mirror) -
• Nos sumus, ad caelum quae scandimus alta petentes (from Aenigmata) ENG
• nulla mihi certa est, nulla est peregrina figura (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• Onion (I bite when bitten; but because I lack) - E. Vercoe *
• Plus ego sustinui quam corpus debuit unum (from Aenigmata) ENG
• quattuor aequales currunt ex arte sorores (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• River and Fish (Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound) - E. Vercoe *
• rotae (wheels) (quattuor aequales currunt ex arte sorores) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• Saw (All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men) - E. Vercoe *
• Sleep (Unbidden do I come, in varied guise)
• somnus (sleep) (sponte mea veniens varias ostendo figuras) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• speculum (mirror) (nulla mihi certa est, nulla est peregrina figura) (from Aenigmata) - M. Ippolito ENG
• sponte mea veniens varias ostendo figuras (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• Stairs (Unequal in degree, alike in size) - E. Vercoe *
• Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound * - E. Vercoe
• Though twain, I'm one, two stones together lie (Mill / Mule) -
• To me, and through me fortune is unkind * - E. Vercoe
• Unbidden do I come, in varied guise (Sleep) -
• Unequal in degree, alike in size * - E. Vercoe
• virgo modesta nimis legem bene servo pudoris (from Aenigmata) ENG - M. Ippolito
• Water clock (Hard rule of silence I, good rule of speech)
• Wheels (Four equal sisters and they run with skill)

Last update: 2023-05-10 18:38:14