Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by V. Fine

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Vivian Fine (1913 - 2000)

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4 Victorian Songs

no. 1. Aloof (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 2. Cadmus and Harmonia (Text: Matthew Arnold)
no. 3. Invictus (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER GER
no. 4. Sonnet from the Portuguese (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER

5 Victorian Songs

no. 1. Aloof (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 2. Cadmus and Harmonia (Text: Matthew Arnold)
no. 3. Spring and Fall: to a young child (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 4. Invictus (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER GER
no. 5. Sonnet from the Portuguese (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER

Epigram and Epitaph

no. 1. Epigram (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 2. Epitaph (Text: Henry Wotton, Sir)

Four Elizabethan Songs

no. 1. Daybreak (Text: John Donne)
no. 2. Spring's welcome (Text: John Lyly)
no. 3. Dirge (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 4. The bargain (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)

Four Songs

no. 1. The lover in winter plaineth for the spring (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
no. 3. She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 4. Tilly (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER

Inscriptions

no. 1. One's self I sing (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. A child said, What is the grass? (Text: Walt Whitman) GER GER
no. 4. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
no. 5. Inscription (Text: Walt Whitman)

Ode to Henry Purcell

no. 1. Sonnet to Orpheus (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE FRE
no. 2. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
no. 3. Sonnet to Orpheus (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG FRE
no. 4. Henry Purcell (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Songs of Love and War

no. 1. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. Stabat mater (Text: Joy Davidman after Jozef Wittlin) *
no. 3. The Song of Songs (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE FRE LAT RUS
no. 4. My Triumph lasted till the drums (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 5. Reconciliation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE

Sonnets for Baritone and Orchestra

no. 1. To one who has been long in city pent (Text: John Keats) ITA
no. 2. On the sea (Text: John Keats)
no. 3. To a cat (Text: John Keats)

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love and Her Reply

no. 1. The passionate shepherd to his love (Text: Christopher Marlowe)
no. 2. Her reply (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A child said, What is the grass? (in Inscriptions) (Text: Walt Whitman) GER GER
Aloof (in 4 Victorian Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Aloof (in 5 Victorian Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Cadmus and Harmonia (in 4 Victorian Songs) (Text: Matthew Arnold)
Cadmus and Harmonia (in 5 Victorian Songs) (Text: Matthew Arnold)
Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (in Four Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
Daybreak (in Four Elizabethan Songs) (Text: John Donne)
Dirge (in Four Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
Epigram (in Epigram and Epitaph) (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Epitaph (in Epigram and Epitaph) (Text: Henry Wotton, Sir)
Henry Purcell (in Ode to Henry Purcell) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Her reply (in The Passionate Shepherd to his Love and Her Reply) (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
Inscription (in Inscriptions) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Invictus (in 4 Victorian Songs) (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER GER
Invictus (in 5 Victorian Songs) (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER GER
Look down, fair moon (in Inscriptions) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Look down, fair moon (in Songs of Love and War) (Text: Walt Whitman)
My Triumph lasted till the drums (in Songs of Love and War) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
One's self I sing (in Inscriptions) (Text: Walt Whitman)
On the sea (in Sonnets for Baritone and Orchestra) (Text: John Keats)
Pied Beauty (in Ode to Henry Purcell) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
Reconciliation (in Songs of Love and War) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
She weeps over Rahoon (in Four Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
Sonnet from the Portuguese (in 4 Victorian Songs) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
Sonnet from the Portuguese (in 5 Victorian Songs) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
Sonnet to Orpheus (in Ode to Henry Purcell) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE FRE
Sonnet to Orpheus (in Ode to Henry Purcell) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG FRE
Spring and Fall: to a young child (in 5 Victorian Songs) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Spring's welcome (in Four Elizabethan Songs) (Text: John Lyly)
Stabat mater (in Songs of Love and War) (Text: Joy Davidman after Jozef Wittlin) *
The bargain (in Four Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
The human mind (Text: Gertrude Stein)
The lover in winter plaineth for the spring (in Four Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
The passionate shepherd to his love (in The Passionate Shepherd to his Love and Her Reply) (Text: Christopher Marlowe)
The Song of Songs (in Songs of Love and War) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE FRE LAT RUS
Tilly (in Four Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
To a cat (in Sonnets for Baritone and Orchestra) (Text: John Keats)
To one who has been long in city pent (in Sonnets for Baritone and Orchestra) (Text: John Keats) ITA
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (in Inscriptions) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE

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