Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. MacDowell

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Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

See Opus Order

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Eight Love Songs, op. 47

no. 1. The robin sings in the apple tree (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Midsummer lullaby (Text: Anonymous after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) FRE
no. 3. Folk song (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 4. Confidence (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 5. The west-wind croons in the cedar-trees (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 6. In the woods (Text: Anonymous after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT FRE GER ITA POL
no. 7. The sea (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 8. Through the meadow (Text: William Dean Howells)

Four Little Poems

no. ?. The eagle (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER

Four Songs, op. 56

no. 1. Long ago sweetheart mine (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. The Swan bent low to the Lily (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. A maid sings light, and a maid sings low (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 4. As the gloaming shadows creep (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

Six Love Songs, op. 40

no. 1. Sweet blue-eyed maid (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 2. Sweetheart tell me (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 3. Thy beaming eyes (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 4. For sweet love's sake (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 5. O lovely rose (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 6. I ask but this (Text: William Henry Gardner)

Three Songs (Drei Lieder), op. 58 GER

no. 1. Constancy (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 2. Sunrise (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 3. Merry Maiden Spring (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER

Three Songs, op. 60

no. 1. Tyrant Love (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Fair Springtide (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. To the Golden Rod (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A maid sings light, and a maid sings low, op. 56 no. 3 (in Four Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
As the gloaming shadows creep, op. 56 no. 4 (in Four Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Confidence, op. 47 no. 4 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Constancy, op. 58 no. 1 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
Cradle hymn (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT FRE GER
Das Rosenband, op. 12 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock) CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA SPA
Der Fischerknabe, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 3 (Text: Friedrich von Schiller) CAT ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS SPA
Du liebst mich nicht, op. 11 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE RUS
Fair Springtide, op. 60 no. 2 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Folk song, op. 47 no. 3 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: William Dean Howells)
For sweet love's sake, op. 40 no. 4 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
I ask but this, op. 40 no. 6 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
Idyl, op. 33 no. 3 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT FRE ITA
In the starry sky above us, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 1 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Heinrich Heine) [x]
In the woods, op. 47 no. 6 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT FRE GER ITA POL
Long ago sweetheart mine, op. 56 no. 1 (in Four Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Mein Liebchen, op. 11 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE FRE FRE ITA LIT POL RUS
Merry Maiden Spring, op. 58 no. 3 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
Midsummer lullaby, op. 47 no. 2 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) FRE
Nachtlied, op. 12 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Emanuel von Geibel) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG FIN FRE SWE
Oben, wo die Sterne glühen, op. 11 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Oben, wo die Sterne glühen, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
O lovely rose, op. 40 no. 5 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
Schweizerlied, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 2 (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE
Slumber song, op. 9 (Two old songs) no. 2 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Springtime, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 2 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [x] CAT DUT FRE SWG
Sunrise , op. 58 no. 2 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
Sweet blue-eyed maid, op. 40 no. 1 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
Sweetheart tell me, op. 40 no. 2 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
The blue-bell, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 5 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT
The clover, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 3 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
The eagle (in Four Little Poems ) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
The fisher-boy, op. 27 (Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)) no. 3 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Friedrich von Schiller) [x] CAT FRE RUS SPA
The mignonette, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 6 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland)
The myrtle, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 2 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) GER
The pansy, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 1 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) GER
The robin sings in the apple tree, op. 47 no. 1 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
The Rose and the Gardener, op. 3 no. 2 (Text: Austin Dobson)
The sea, op. 47 no. 7 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: William Dean Howells)
The Swan bent low to the Lily, op. 56 no. 2 (in Four Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
The west-wind croons in the cedar-trees, op. 47 no. 5 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
The Witch, op. 5 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell , as Edgar Thorn)
The yellow daisy, op. 26 (From an old garden (six songs)) no. 4 (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
Through the meadow, op. 47 no. 8 (in Eight Love Songs) (Text: William Dean Howells)
Thy beaming eyes, op. 40 no. 3 (in Six Love Songs) (Text: William Henry Gardner)
To the Golden Rod, op. 60 no. 3 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
Tyrant Love, op. 60 no. 1 (in Three Songs) (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
War Song, op. 6 (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell , as Edgar Thorn)

Last update: 2023-05-11 10:51:46