Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Baxter

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Composer's Thoughts
• no. 1. Nights without sleep (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. A little while (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
• Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• no. 2. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• no. 3. I am gone, sir (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE
• no. 4. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• Four Views of Love
• no. 1. When you are old (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA
• no. 2. Let it be you (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• no. 4. A thunderstorm in town (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• From the Heart: Three American Women - Three from Sara
• no. 1. There will come soft rains (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. The Inn of Earth (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. February twilight (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• From the Heart: Three American Women - Two Remembrances
• no. 1. August (Text: Susan Laura Lugo) *
• no. 2. Gone with the wind (Text: Susan Laura Lugo) *
• From the Heart: Three American Women - Willa
• no. 1. The tavern (Text: Willa Cather)
• no. 2. The hawthorn tree (Text: Willa Cather)
• no. 3. L'envoi (Text: Willa Cather)
• no. 4. Spanish Johnny (Text: Willa Cather)
• The Battle Cry
• no. 1. My Love's gone a-fighting (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. The battle (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. The man he killed (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• no. 4. Drummer Hodge (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. A wife in London (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Three madrigals
• no. 1. There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• no. 2. The silver swan (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER
• no. 3. Love me not for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
• Three Poems by Linda Pastan
• no. 1. Self Portrait at 44 (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• no. 2. Marks (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• no. 3. Caroline (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• Two Songs from the House of Bernarda Alba
• no. 1. Little Lamb (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca)
• no. 2. Here come the reapers (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca) ⊗
• Two Songs of Reflection
• no. 1. What death can touch (Text: Chaim Stern) *
• no. 2. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A cradle song (in Two Songs of Reflection) (Text: William Blake)
• A little while (in A Composer's Thoughts) (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
• A thunderstorm in town (in Four Views of Love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• August (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Two Remembrances) (Text: Susan Laura Lugo) *
• A wife in London (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Caroline (in Three Poems by Linda Pastan) (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story) (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Come away, come away, death (in Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• Drummer Hodge (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• February twilight (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Three from Sara) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• Gone with the wind (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Two Remembrances) (Text: Susan Laura Lugo) *
• Grandmother, think not I forget (Text: Garth Baxter; Katherine Baxter after Willa Cather)
• Here come the reapers (in Two Songs from the House of Bernarda Alba) (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca) ⊗
• I am gone, sir (in Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE
• If you had known (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• L'envoi (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Willa) (Text: Willa Cather)
• Let it be forgotten (in Four Views of Love) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• Let it be you (in Four Views of Love) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Little Lamb (in Two Songs from the House of Bernarda Alba) (Text: Anonymous after Federico García Lorca)
• Love me not for comely grace (in Three madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
• Marks (in Three Poems by Linda Pastan) (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• My Love's gone a-fighting (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Nights without sleep (in A Composer's Thoughts) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• O mistress mine (in Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Self Portrait at 44 (in Three Poems by Linda Pastan) (Text: Linda Pastan) *
• Spanish Johnny (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Willa) (Text: Willa Cather)
• Still falls the rain (Text: Edith Sitwell)
• The battle (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The hawthorn tree (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Willa) (Text: Willa Cather)
• The Inn of Earth (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Three from Sara) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The Journey to Ithaca (Text: Lisa van Auken after Constantine P. Cavafy) FRE ITA
• The long hill (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The man he killed (in The Battle Cry) (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• There is a lady sweet and kind (in Three madrigals) (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• There will come soft rains (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Three from Sara) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The silver swan (in Three madrigals) (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER
• The tavern (in From the Heart: Three American Women - Willa) (Text: Willa Cather)
• What death can touch (in Two Songs of Reflection) (Text: Chaim Stern) *
• When that I was and a little tiny boy (in Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• When you are old (in Four Views of Love) (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA
• Wild Mountain Thyme (Text: Volkslieder )
• Your face is beautiful (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Last update: 2025-06-17 17:11:45