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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Schafer

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Raymond Murray Schafer (b. 1933)

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Beyond the Great Gate of Light
    • no. 3. Lustro, part two - Alo amar alo ogo bhubon-bhora (Text: Rabindranath Tagore) ENG
  • Felix's Girls
    • Jou-Jou (Text: Henry Felix) [x]*
  • Four Songs on Texts by Tagore (Vier Lieder auf Tagore-Texte, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
    • no. 1. Gitanjali no. 1 (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE FRE GER
    • no. 2. Gitanjali no. 29 (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER
    • no. 3. Gitanjali no. 2 (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE GER
    • no. 4. Gitanjali no. 57 (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Gitanjali
    • no. 1. Light, my light, the world-filling light (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
    • no. 2. Thou hast made me endless (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE FRE GER
    • no. 3. When thou commandest me to sing (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE GER
    • no. 4. Interlude [x]
    • no. 5. You came down and stood at my cottage door (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER ITA
    • no. 6. I am here to sing thee songs (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER
  • Letters from Mignon
    • no. 1. Dearest, dearest, dearest (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 2. Dearest Love (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 3. Mein lieber, heisshungriger Wolf (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 4. My love:/ Be strong! Not like the giant oak, but like the grass in the wind (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 5. A mio grande amore! (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 6. My love:/ Last night I had a beautiful dream: I was in a forest (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 7. My love:/ There are droplets of water on the leaves and on the little spider webs (Text: Eleanor James) *
    • no. 8. Teuerster Geliebter (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Minnelieder
    • no. 1. Sommer
    • no. 2. Verlangen (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
    • no. 3. Ûf der Lindenwipfel (Text: Dietmar von Aist , as Dietmar von Eist)
    • no. 4. Mahnung (Text: Heinrich von Veldeke)
    • no. 5. Wîp unde Vederspil (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
    • no. 6. Frouwen Wonne (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
    • no. 7. Verwirrung (Text: Heinrich von Morungen)
    • no. 8. Gefunden (Text: Meinloh von Sevelingen )
    • no. 9. Einsam (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
    • no. 10. Herzenschlüzel (Text: Wernher[r] von Tegernsee) ENG GER
    • no. 11. Der Falke (Text: Dietmar von Aist) GER
    • no. 12. Minne stets die Alte (Text: Heinrich von Veldeke)
    • no. 13. Unter der Linden (Text: Walther von der Vogelweide) ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER GER GER
    • no. 14. Des Dichters Grabschrift (Text: Heinrich von Morungen)
  • Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours
    • no. 1. Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE
    • no. 2. Ich liebe meines Wesens Dunkelstunden (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE
    • no. 3. Du, Nachbar Gott (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
    • no. 4. Was wirst du tun (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
    • no. 5. Ich verrinne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
    • no. 6. Das waren Tage Michelangelo's (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • The fall into light
    • no. 6. Requiem (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A mio grande amore! (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Das waren Tage Michelangelo's (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • Dearest, dearest, dearest (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Dearest Love (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Der Falke (in Minnelieder) (Text: Dietmar von Aist) GER
  • Des Dichters Grabschrift (in Minnelieder) (Text: Heinrich von Morungen)
  • Du, Nachbar Gott (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Einsam (in Minnelieder) (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
  • Frouwen Wonne (in Minnelieder) (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
  • Gefunden (in Minnelieder) (Text: Meinloh von Sevelingen )
  • Gitanjali no. 1 (in Four Songs on Texts by Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE FRE GER
  • Gitanjali no. 29 (in Four Songs on Texts by Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER
  • Gitanjali no. 2 (in Four Songs on Texts by Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE GER
  • Gitanjali no. 57 (in Four Songs on Texts by Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Herzenschlüzel (in Minnelieder) (Text: Wernher[r] von Tegernsee) ENG GER
  • I am here to sing thee songs (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER
  • Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE
  • Ich liebe meines Wesens Dunkelstunden (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE
  • Ich verrinne (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Interlude (in Gitanjali) [x]
  • Jou-Jou (in Felix's Girls) (Text: Henry Felix) [x]*
  • Light, my light, the world-filling light (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Lustro, part two - Alo amar alo ogo bhubon-bhora (in Beyond the Great Gate of Light ) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore) ENG
  • Mahnung (in Minnelieder) (Text: Heinrich von Veldeke)
  • Mein lieber, heisshungriger Wolf (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Minne stets die Alte (in Minnelieder) (Text: Heinrich von Veldeke)
  • My love:/ Be strong! Not like the giant oak, but like the grass in the wind (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • My love:/ Last night I had a beautiful dream: I was in a forest (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • My love:/ There are droplets of water on the leaves and on the little spider webs (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Requiem (in The fall into light) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
  • Sommer (in Minnelieder)
  • Teuerster Geliebter (in Letters from Mignon) (Text: Eleanor James) *
  • Thou hast made me endless (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE FRE GER
  • Thunder: Perfect Mind (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
  • Ûf der Lindenwipfel (in Minnelieder) (Text: Dietmar von Aist , as Dietmar von Eist)
  • Unter der Linden (in Minnelieder) (Text: Walther von der Vogelweide) ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER GER GER
  • Verlangen (in Minnelieder) (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
  • Verwirrung (in Minnelieder) (Text: Heinrich von Morungen)
  • Was wirst du tun (in Songs from Rilke's Book of Hours) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
  • When thou commandest me to sing (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) DUT FRE GER
  • Wîp unde Vederspil (in Minnelieder) (Text: Der von Kürenberg)
  • You came down and stood at my cottage door (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER ITA

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