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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Thomas

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Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)

Website: http://www.augustareadthomas.com/

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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.:

  • among dawn flowers
    • no. 1. Orchid -- breathing (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
    • no. 2. Lightning (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Berkshire Songs
    • no. 1. The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 2. I'm nobody! Who are you? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
    • no. 3. It rises -- passes -- on our South (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Bubble: Rainbow (spirit level)
    • no. 1. Sonnet (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 2. Delight is as the flight (poem #257) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Chanting to Paradise (En chantant au Paradis) FRE
    • no. 1. Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 2. Dying at my music! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 3. Blazing in gold and quenching in Purple (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 4. Wild nights! -- Wild nights! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
    • no. 5. Bind me -- I still can sing (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Daylight Divine
    • no. 1. The windhover (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
    • no. 2. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
  • Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
    • no. 1. Final soliloquy of the interior paramour (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
    • no. 2. The poem that took the place of a mountain (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
  • Four Basho Settings
    • no. 1. Skylark (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
    • no. 2. Cuckoo (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
    • no. 3. Butterfly (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
    • no. 4. Dawn flowers (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Love Songs
    • no. 1. Eloise to Abelard (Text: Alexander Pope)
    • no. 2. A serenade (Text: Edward Coate Pinckney)
    • no. 3. Cor Cordium (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 4. Jacqueline (Text: Samuel Rogers)
    • no. 5. Don Juan (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
    • no. 6. Romeo and Juliet (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
    • no. 7. Love (Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • Purple Syllables (Syllabes pourpres) FRE
    • no. 1. The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 2. Of Being is a Bird (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 3. The Bird her punctual music brings (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 4. It is a lonesome Glee (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 5. Out of sight? What of that? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 6. At Half past Three, a single Bird (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 7. Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
    • no. 1. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) SWE
    • no. 2. Fair ship, that from the Italian shore (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 3. Strong Son of God, immortal Love (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 4. That God, which ever lives and loves (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 5. A mighty matter I rehearse (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 6. This nature full of hints and mysteries (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 7. Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
  • Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas (Chants du Soleil - Trois Micro-Opéras) FRE
    • no. 1. To interrupt His Yellow Plan (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 2. Superfluous were the Sun (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 3. It rises -- passes -- on our South (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Two E. E. Cummings Songs
    • no. 1. (kiss me) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
    • no. 2. the sky was (Text: E. E. Cummings)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Alleluia (Midsummer Blaze) [x]
  • A mighty matter I rehearse (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • A serenade (in Love Songs) (Text: Edward Coate Pinckney)
  • At Half past Three, a single Bird (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Bind me -- I still can sing (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Blazing in gold and quenching in Purple (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Butterfly (in Four Basho Settings) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Cor Cordium (in Love Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Crossing the Bar (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
  • Cuckoo (in Four Basho Settings) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Dawn flowers (in Four Basho Settings) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Delight is as the flight (poem #257) (in Bubble: Rainbow (spirit level)) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Don Juan (in Love Songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
  • Dying at my music! (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Eloise to Abelard (in Love Songs) (Text: Alexander Pope)
  • Fair ship, that from the Italian shore (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • Final soliloquy of the interior paramour (in Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
  • Fruit of my spirit (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • I'm nobody! Who are you? (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
  • It is a lonesome Glee (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • It rises -- passes -- on our South (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • It rises -- passes -- on our South (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Jacqueline (in Love Songs) (Text: Samuel Rogers)
  • Juggler of Day (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • (kiss me) (in Two E. E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Lightning (in among dawn flowers) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Love (in Love Songs) (Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • Of Being is a Bird (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Orchid -- breathing (in among dawn flowers) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • O true and tried, so well and long (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • Out of sight? What of that? (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Pied Beauty (in Daylight Divine) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
  • Prairie Sketches I: Diamonds on Orchid Velvet (Text: Suzann Zimmerman) *
  • Psalm 91: Verse 11 for chorus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) SWE
  • Romeo and Juliet (in Love Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
  • Roses [x]
  • Skylark (in Four Basho Settings) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō) ⊗
  • Song in Sorrow [x]
  • Sonnet (in Bubble: Rainbow (spirit level)) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Strong Son of God, immortal Love (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • Sunlight Echoes [x]
  • Superfluous were the Sun (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • The Bird her punctual music brings (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • The poem that took the place of a mountain (in Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
  • The rewaking (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
  • The rub of love (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
  • the sky was (in Two E. E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • The windhover (in Daylight Divine) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
  • This nature full of hints and mysteries (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • To interrupt His Yellow Plan (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • To the Rain [x]
  • Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Wild nights! -- Wild nights! (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA

Last update: 2025-07-04 04:40:01

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