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 Opus order

Bright be the place of thy soul! (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DUT FRE GER RUS
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER
So we'll go no more a-roving (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
Stanzas for music (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
When we two parted (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CHI FRE

op. 9. Tearless - Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano
op. 11. Silver Rain
op. 13. Desire
op. 14. Heart on the Wall
op. 15. Three Songs for a high voice and piano
op. 18. 3 Songs for a Deep Voice and Piano
op. 19. 3 Lieder
op. 20. 3 Lieder
op. 21. 4 Motivations for Baritone and Piano
op. 24. Border Line
op. 27. Three Countee Cullen Songs
op. 29. Mortal Storm
op. 31. 3 Songs for Coloratura-Soprano and Piano
op. 41. 3 Songs for Baritone and Piano
op. 47. 3 Lieder
op. 102. Four Sonnets to Duse

Last update: 2025-01-03 04:14:47