Composer: Robert Owens (1925 - 2017)

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano, op. 18
• no. 1. The old stoic (Text: Emily Brontë)
• no. 2. Tell me, tell me (Text: Emily Brontë)
• no. 3. Sleep brings no joy (Text: Emily Brontë)
• 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano, op. 41
• no. 1. The lynching (Text: Claude Mckay)
• no. 2. If we must die (Text: Claude Mckay)
• no. 3. To the white fiends (Text: Claude Mckay)
• 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano and Piano, op. 31
• no. 1. A song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) [x]
• no. 2. The secret (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 3. The sparrow (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano, op. 21
• no. 1. The cottager to her infant (Text: Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth)
• no. 2. Hope (Text: William Wordsworth) [x]
• no. 3. A complaint (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 4. Could I but ride indefinite (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Border Line, op. 24
• no. 1. Border line (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 2. Night: Four Songs (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. Dustbowl (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 4. Burden (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 5. One (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 6. Beale Street (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 7. Gifts (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 8. Circles (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 9. Grave yard (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 10. Convent (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 11. Poppy flower (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 12. Gypsy melodies (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 13. Montmartre (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• no. 14. Fragments (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 15. Desert (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• no. 16. The end (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Desire, op. 13
• no. 1. Desire (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 2. Dream (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 3. Juliet (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 4. Man (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Four Sonnets to Duse, op. 102
• no. 1. To Eleonora Duse (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. To a picture of Eleonora Duse in "The Dead City" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. To a picture of Eleonora Duse in "The Dead City" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 4. To a picture of Eleonora Duse as "Francesca da Rimini" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Heart on the Wall, op. 14
• no. 1. Heart (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 2. Remembrance (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. Girl (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 4. Havana Dreams (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 5. For dead mimes (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Mortal Storm, op. 29
• no. 1. A house in Taos (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 2. Little song (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. Jame (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 4. Faithful one (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 5. Genius child (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Silver Rain, op. 11
• no. 1. In time of silver rain (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 2. Fulfillment (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. Night song (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• no. 4. Silence (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 5. Carolina Cabin (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 6. Songs (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 7. Sleep (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Stanzas for Music
• no. 1. Stanzas for music (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER ITA RUS
• no. 2. When we two parted (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CHI FRE
• no. 3. Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER
• no. 4. So we'll go no more a-roving (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
• Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano, op. 9
• no. 1. Vagabonds (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 2. Luck (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. Exits (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 4. Walls (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 5. Chippy (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 6. Dancers (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 7. Grief (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 8. Prayer (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Three Countee Cullen Songs, op. 27
• no. 1. From the Dark Tower (Text: Countee Cullen)
• no. 2. Yet do I marvel (Text: Countee Cullen)
• no. 3. For a poet (Text: Countee Cullen)
• Three Songs for a high voice and piano, op. 15
• no. 1. If (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 2. No Images (Text: Waring Cuney) GER
• no. 3. The secret (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A complaint, op. 21 no. 3 (in 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• A house in Taos , op. 29 no. 1 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• A song , op. 31 no. 1 (in 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano and Piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) [x]
• Beale Street, op. 24 no. 6 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Border line, op. 24 no. 1 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Bright be the place of thy soul! (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DUT FRE GER
• Burden, op. 24 no. 4 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Carolina Cabin, op. 11 no. 5 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Chippy , op. 9 no. 5 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Circles, op. 24 no. 8 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Convent, op. 24 no. 10 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Could I but ride indefinite, op. 21 no. 4 (in 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Dancers, op. 9 no. 6 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Der verliebte Reisende, op. 19 (3 Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff) ENG FRE
• Desert, op. 24 no. 15 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Desire, op. 13 no. 1 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Die Beiden, op. 47 (3 Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA
• Die Nacht, op. 19 (3 Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff) ENG FRE
• Dream, op. 13 no. 2 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Dustbowl, op. 24 no. 3 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Eine Geige in den Gärten, op. 20 (3 Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Hermann Hesse) ENG FRE
• Exits , op. 9 no. 3 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Faithful one, op. 29 no. 4 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• For a poet, op. 27 no. 3 (in Three Countee Cullen Songs) (Text: Countee Cullen)
• For dead mimes, op. 14 no. 5 (in Heart on the Wall) (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Fragments, op. 24 no. 14 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Fremde Stadt, op. 20 (3 Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Hermann Hesse) FRE
• From the Dark Tower, op. 27 no. 1 (in Three Countee Cullen Songs) (Text: Countee Cullen)
• Fulfillment, op. 11 no. 2 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Genius child, op. 29 no. 5 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Gifts, op. 24 no. 7 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Girl, op. 14 no. 3 (in Heart on the Wall) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Grave yard, op. 24 no. 9 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Grief , op. 9 no. 7 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Gypsy melodies, op. 24 no. 12 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Havana Dreams, op. 14 no. 4 (in Heart on the Wall) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Heart, op. 14 no. 1 (in Heart on the Wall) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Hope , op. 21 no. 2 (in 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano) (Text: William Wordsworth) [x]
• If, op. 15 no. 1 (in Three Songs for a high voice and piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• If we must die , op. 41 no. 2 (in 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Claude Mckay)
• Im Nebel, op. 20 (3 Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Hermann Hesse) ENG ENG FRE IRI ITA
• In time of silver rain, op. 11 no. 1 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Jame , op. 29 no. 3 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Juliet, op. 13 no. 3 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Little song , op. 29 no. 2 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Luck , op. 9 no. 2 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Man, op. 13 no. 4 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Manche freilich, op. 47 (3 Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) FRE ITA
• Montmartre, op. 24 no. 13 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Morgendämmerung, op. 19 (3 Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff) FRE
• Night: Four Songs, op. 24 no. 2 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Night song, op. 11 no. 3 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• No Images, op. 15 no. 2 (in Three Songs for a high voice and piano) (Text: Waring Cuney) GER
• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom (in Stanzas for Music) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER
• One, op. 24 no. 5 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Poppy flower, op. 24 no. 11 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Prayer, op. 9 no. 8 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Remembrance, op. 14 no. 2 (in Heart on the Wall) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Silence, op. 11 no. 4 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Sleep, op. 11 no. 7 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) * GER
• Sleep brings no joy, op. 18 no. 3 (in 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano) (Text: Emily Brontë)
• Songs, op. 11 no. 6 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• So we'll go no more a-roving (in Stanzas for Music) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
• Stanzas for music (in Stanzas for Music) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER ITA RUS
• Tell me, tell me, op. 18 no. 2 (in 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano) (Text: Emily Brontë)
• The cottager to her infant , op. 21 no. 1 (in 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth)
• The end, op. 24 no. 16 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• The lynching , op. 41 no. 1 (in 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Claude Mckay)
• The old stoic, op. 18 no. 1 (in 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano) (Text: Emily Brontë)
• The secret , op. 31 no. 2 (in 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano and Piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The secret, op. 15 no. 3 (in Three Songs for a high voice and piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The sparrow, op. 31 no. 3 (in 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano and Piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• To a picture of Eleonora Duse as "Francesca da Rimini", op. 102 no. 4 (in Four Sonnets to Duse) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• To a picture of Eleonora Duse in "The Dead City", op. 102 no. 3 (in Four Sonnets to Duse) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• To a picture of Eleonora Duse in "The Dead City", op. 102 no. 2 (in Four Sonnets to Duse) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• To Eleonora Duse, op. 102 no. 1 (in Four Sonnets to Duse) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• To the white fiends, op. 41 no. 3 (in 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Claude Mckay)
• Vagabonds, op. 9 no. 1 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Vorfrühling, op. 47 (3 Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) FRE ITA
• Walls , op. 9 no. 4 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• When we two parted (in Stanzas for Music) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CHI FRE
• Yet do I marvel, op. 27 no. 2 (in Three Countee Cullen Songs) (Text: Countee Cullen)

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Last update: 2020-06-12 00:50:59