Composer: Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)

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

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.

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)
• 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)
• 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

• A mighty matter I rehearse ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• At Half past Three, a single Bird ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Bind me -- I still can sing ([No title]) (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Blazing in gold and quenching in Purple ([No title]) (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Dying at my music! ([No title]) (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Fair ship, that from the Italian shore ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• I'm nobody! Who are you? ([No title]) (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
• It is a lonesome Glee ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• It rises -- passes -- on our South ([No title]) (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• It rises -- passes -- on our South ([No title]) (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Lightning ([No title]) (in among dawn flowers) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō)
• Of Being is a Bird ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Orchid -- breathing ([No title]) (in among dawn flowers) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō)
• O true and tried, so well and long ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Out of sight? What of that? ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light ([No title]) (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) SWE
• Strong Son of God, immortal Love ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Superfluous were the Sun ([No title]) (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• The Bird her punctual music brings ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• The Thrill came slowly like a Boon for ([No title]) (in Berkshire Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• This nature full of hints and mysteries ([No title]) (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• To interrupt His Yellow Plan ([No title]) (in Sun Songs -- Three Micro-Operas) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird ([No title]) (in Purple Syllables) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Wild nights! -- Wild nights! ([No title]) (in Chanting to Paradise) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• Alleluia (Midsummer Blaze) [x]
• A serenade (in Love Songs) (Text: Edward Coate Pinckney)
• Butterfly (in Four Basho Settings) (Text: Anonymous after Matsuo Bashō)
• Cor Cordium (in Love Songs) (Text: William Sharp)
• Crossing the Bar (in Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• 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)
• Eloise to Abelard (in Love Songs) (Text: Alexander Pope)
• 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)
• 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) *
• Love (in Love Songs) (Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• 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)
• 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) *
• Sunlight Echoes [x]
• 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 windhover (in Daylight Divine) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
• To the Rain [x]

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Last update: 2019-09-12 00:17:09