Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Beach

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Three Shakespeare choruses, op. 39
• no. 1. Over hill, over dale (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
• no. 2. Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
• no. 3. Through the house give glimmering light (Text: William Shakespeare)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

• A light that overflows (Text: R. Norwood) [x]
• A song for Little May (Text: Emily Huntington Miller)
• Birth (Text: Frederic Lawrence Knowles) [x]
• Clouds (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman) [x]
• Evening song [x]
• Hymn of trust (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• If women will not be inclined [x]
• My love come through the fields (Text: R. Norwood) [x]
• My star (Text: Robert Browning)
• The Arrow and the Song (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
• The Canticle of the Sun (Text: Matthew Arnold after Francis of Assisi, Saint ) GER SPA
• The Deep-Sea Pearl (Text: Edith M. Thomas)
• The heart that melts [x]
• The icicle lesson [x]
• The rainy day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
• Time has wings and swiftly flies [x]
• Whither? (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Wilhelm Müller) CAT DUT FIN FRE GRE IRI ITA KOR POR
• Who has seen the wind? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

• op. 1. Four Songs
  • no. 1. With violets (Text: Kate Vannah)
  • no. 2. Die vier Brüder (Text: Friedrich von Schiller)
  • no. 3. Jeune fille et jeune fleur (Text: François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand)
  • no. 4. Ariette (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE
• op. 2. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Twilight (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach)
  • no. 2. When far from her (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach)
  • no. 3. Empress of Night (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach)
• op. 10. Songs of the sea
  • no. 1. A Canadian Boat-Song (Text: Thomas Moore)
  • no. 2. The night sea (Text: Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford) [x]
  • no. 3. Sea song (Text: William Ellery Channing) [x]
• op. 11. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Dark is the night (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • no. 2. The western wind (Text: William Ernest Henley) CHI
  • no. 3. The blackbird (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
• op. 12. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Wilt thou be my dearie? (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE
  • no. 2. Ye banks and braes o' bonnie doon CZE FRE GER IRI
  • no. 3. My luve is like a red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• op. 13. Hymn of trust (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• op. 14. Four Songs
  • no. 1. The summer wind (Text: Walter Learned)
  • no. 2. Le secret (Text: Jules, le comte de Rességuier)
  • no. 2. The secret (Text: Anonymous after Jules, le comte de Rességuier)
  • no. 3. Sweetheart, sigh no more (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
  • no. 4. The thrush (Text: Edward Rowland Sill)
• op. 18. Eilende Wolken! Segler der Lüfte! (Text: Friedrich von Schiller) ENG
• op. 19. Three Songs
  • no. 1. For me the jasmine buds unfold (Text: Florence Earle Coates)
  • no. 2. Ecstasy (Text: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach)
  • no. 3. Golden gates (Text: Anonymous)
• op. 20. Across the world (Villanelle) (Text: Edith M. Thomas)
• op. 21. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Chanson d'amour (Text: Victor Hugo) ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG RUS
  • no. 2. Extase (Text: Victor Hugo) CHI ENG
  • no. 3. Elle et moi (Text: Félix Bovet)
• op. 26. Four songs
  • no. 1. My Star (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
  • no. 2. Just for this (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
  • no. 3. Spring (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
  • no. 4. Wouldn't that be queer (Text: Elsie J. Cooley) [x]
• op. 29. Four Songs
  • no. 1. Within thy Heart (Text: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach)
  • no. 2. The wandering knight (Text: John Gibson Lockhart after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
  • no. 3. Sleep, little darling (Text: Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford) [x]
  • no. 4. Haste, o beloved (Text: W. A. Sparrow) [x]
• op. 30. The rose of Avon-town (Text: Caroline Mischka)
• op. 31. Three Flower Songs
  • no. 1. The clover (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
  • no. 2. The yellow daisy (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
  • no. 3. The blue-bell (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT
• op. 35. Four songs
  • no. 1. Nacht ist's (Text: Ernst Scherenberg) CHI
  • no. 2. Allein! (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN FIN FRE FRE GRE ITA KOR LIT NOR RUS RUS RUS SPA
  • no. 2. Alone (Text: Anonymous after Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GRE ITA KOR LIT NOR RUS RUS RUS SPA
  • no. 3. Nähe des Geliebten (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT DAN DAN DUT ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE IRI ITA POR RUS RUS RUS
  • no. 4. Forget-me-not (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach)
• op. 37. Three Shakespeare Songs
  • no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
  • no. 2. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
  • no. 3. Fairy lullaby (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE
• op. 39. Three Shakespeare choruses
  • no. 1. Over hill, over dale (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
  • no. 2. Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
  • no. 3. Through the house give glimmering light (Text: William Shakespeare)
• op. 41. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Anita (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
  • no. 2. Thy beauty (Text: Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford) [x]
  • no. 3. Forgotten (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
• op. 43. Five Burns Songs
  • no. 1. Dearie (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE FRE GER
  • no. 2. Scottish Cradle Song (Text: Robert Burns) [x]
  • no. 3. Oh were my love yon lilac fair (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER SPA
  • no. 4. Far awa' (Text: Robert Burns)
  • no. 5. My lassie (Text: Robert Burns) [x]
• op. 44. Three Browning Songs
  • no. 1. The year's at the spring (Text: Robert Browning) CAT GER ITA
  • no. 2. Ah, Love, but a day (Text: Robert Browning) CAT GER ITA
  • no. 3. I send my heart up to thee (Text: Robert Browning) CAT GER ITA
• op. 48. Four Songs
  • no. 1. Come, ah come (Text: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach) [x]
  • no. 2. Good morning (Text: Agnes Lockhart Hughes , as A. H. Lockhart) [x]
  • no. 3. Good night (Text: Agnes Lockhart Hughes , as A. H. Lockhart) DUT
  • no. 4. Canzonetta (Text: Armand Silvestre)
• op. 49. A Song of Liberty (Text: Frank Lebby Stanton)
• op. 51. Four Songs
  • no. 1. Ich sagte nicht (Text: Eduard Wissman) ENG
  • no. 1. Silent love (Text: Isidora Martinez after Eduard Wissman)
  • no. 2. Wir drei (Text: Hans Eschelbach) ENG ENG
  • no. 2. We three (Text: Isidora Martinez after Hans Eschelbach)
  • no. 3. Juni (Text: Erich Jansen) ENG ENG
  • no. 3. June (Text: Isidora Martinez after Erich Jansen)
  • no. 4. Je demande à l'oiseau (Text: Armand Silvestre) ENG
  • no. 4. For my love (Text: Isidora Martinez after Armand Silvestre)
• op. 56. Four Songs
  • no. 1. Autumn song (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach)
  • no. 2. Go not too far (Text: Florence Earle Coates)
  • no. 3. I know not how to find the spring (Text: Florence Earle Coates)
  • no. 4. Shena Van (Text: William Black)
• op. 61. Give me not love (Text: Florence Earle Coates) [x]
• op. 62. When soul is joined to soul (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• op. 66. The chambered nautilus (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• op. 68. After (Text: Florence Earle Coates) [x]
• op. 69. Two Mother Songs
  • no. 1. Baby (Text: George MacDonald)
  • no. 2. Hush, baby dear (Text: Agnes Lockhart Hughes) [x]
• op. 71. Three Songs
  • no. 1. A prelude (Text: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach) [x]
  • no. 2. O sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
  • no. 3. An Old Love-Story (Text: Belle Lowe Stathem) [x]
• op. 72.
  • no. 1. Ein altes Gebet [multi-text setting] (Text: Spieker, Knak)
• op. 73. Two Songs
  • no. 1. With Granny (Text: John Bernhoff after Louis Zacharias)
  • no. 1. Grossmütterchen (Text: Louis Zacharias) ENG
  • no. 2. The children's thanks (Text: John Bernhoff after Louis Zacharias)
  • no. 2. Der Totenkranz (Text: Louis Zacharias) ENG
• op. 75. Four Children's Songs
  • no. 1. The candy lion (Text: Abbie Farwell Brown)
  • no. 2. A Thanksgiving fable (Text: Oliver Herford)
  • no. 3. Dolladine (Text: William Brighty Rands)
  • no. 4. Prayer of a tired child (Text: Abbie Farwell Brown)
• op. 76. Two Songs
  • no. 1. Separation (Text: John L. Stoddard)
  • no. 2. The Lotus Isles (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• op. 77. Two Songs
  • no. 1. I (Text: Cecil Fanning) [x]
  • no. 2. Wind o' the westland (Text: Dana Burnet)
• op. 78. Three Songs
  • no. 1. Meadow-Larks (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
  • no. 2. Night Song at Amalfi (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
  • no. 3. In blossom time (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
• op. 82. Dusk in June (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• op. 85. In the Twilight (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
• op. 88. Spirit divine (Text: A. Read) [x]
• op. 93. Message (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• op. 99. Four Songs
  • no. 1. When Mama sings (Text: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach) [x]
  • no. 2. Little brown-eyed laddie (Text: A. D. O. Greenwood) [x]
  • no. 3. The moonpath (Text: Katharine Adams) [x]
  • no. 4. The artless maid (Text: L. Barili) [x]
• op. 100. Two Songs
  • no. 1. A mirage (Text: Bertha Ochsner)
  • no. 2. Stella viatoris (Text: Jessie Hague Nettleton)
• op. 112. Jesus my saviour (Text: A. Elliott) [x]
• op. 113. Mine be the lips (Text: Leonora Speyer von Stosch)
• op. 115. Around the manger (Text: K. Davis) [x]
• op. 117. Three Songs
  • no. 1. The singer (Text: Muna Lee) *
  • no. 2. The host (Text: Muna Lee) [x]
  • no. 3. Song in the hills (Text: Muna Lee) [x]
• op. 120. Rendezvous (Text: Leonora Speyer von Stosch)
• op. 124. Springtime (Text: S. M. Heywood) [x]
• op. 125. Two Sacred Songs
  • no. 1. Spirit of mercy [x]
  • no. 2. Evening Hymn: The shadows of the evening hours (Text: Adelaide Anne Procter)
• op. 131. Dark garden (Text: Leonora Speyer von Stosch) [x]
• op. 132[143]. I shall be brave (Text: Katharine Adams)
• op. 135. To one I love (Text: S. R. Quick) [x]
• op. 136. Fire and flame (Text: Anna A. Moody) [x]
• op. 137. Two Mother Songs
  • no. 1. Baby (Text: S. R. Quick) [x]
  • no. 2. May flowers (Text: Anna A. Moody) [x]
• op. 142. I sought the Lord [x]
• op. 145. April dreams (Text: K. W. Harding) [x]
• op. 152. Though I take the wings of morning (Text: R. N. Spencer) [x]

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