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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Owens

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Robert Owens (1925 - 2017)

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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)
    • no. 2. Dream (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]
    • no. 3. Juliet (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 4. Man (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • 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. Jaime (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 4. Faithful one (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • 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) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS 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)
    • 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 RUS
  • 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: Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff) CAT ENG FRE
  • Desert, op. 24 no. 15 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • Desire, op. 13 no. 1 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Die Beiden, op. 47 (3 Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) CZE ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA
  • Die Nacht, op. 19 (3 Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr 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) CAT 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)
  • 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) CAT ENG
  • 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 we must die , op. 41 no. 2 (in 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Claude Mckay)
  • If, op. 15 no. 1 (in Three Songs for a high voice and piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • Im Nebel, op. 20 (3 Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Hermann Hesse) CAT ENG ENG FRE IRI ITA
  • In time of silver rain, op. 11 no. 1 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Jaime, op. 29 no. 3 (in Mortal Storm) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • 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)
  • Manche freilich, op. 47 (3 Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) FRE ITA
  • Man, op. 13 no. 4 (in Desire) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Montmartre, op. 24 no. 13 (in Border Line) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • Morgendämmerung, op. 19 (3 Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff) ENG 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 brings no joy, op. 18 no. 3 (in 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano) (Text: Emily Brontë)
  • Sleep, op. 11 no. 7 (in Silver Rain) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • 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) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS 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) ENG FRE ITA
  • Walls , op. 9 no. 4 (in Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • 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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