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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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. 15 no. 3 (in Three Songs for a high voice and piano) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The secret , op. 31 no. 2 (in 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano 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. 2 (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 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)
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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