Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Walker

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Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Heart in Hiding

no. 1. Joy (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 4. The Moon and the Sea (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. A Jewel, A Joy! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Emily! (from New England)

no. 1. My Letter to the World (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 2. The Moon and the Sea (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. The Frog in the Bog (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
no. 5. Passion (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
no. 6. Joy (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 7. All I Have to Bring (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

Feathers and Frogs

no. 1. Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
no. 2. I'm Nobody! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA

Harlem Songs

no. 1. Spirituals (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 2. Harlem Night Song (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 3. Tambourines (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 5. Wild Nights! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA

I've Known Rivers

no. 1. I've Known Rivers (Text: Langston Hughes) GER

Love Shall Live Forever

no. 3. She walks in beauty (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER GER ITA

Love! Yes!

no. 1. love is a place (Text: E. E. Cummings)
no. 2. love is more thicker (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 3. now is a bird(singing in a tree) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
no. 4. let's open the year (Text: E. E. Cummings) *

Our Dream of Freedom

no. 1. Freedom Will Not Come Today (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 2. Hold Fast to Dreams (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 3. The Dream Keeper (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 4. Dream of Freedom (Text: Langston Hughes)

Passion and Remembrance

no. 2. Mindful of You (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Rejoice!

no. 2. Love Came Down at Christmas (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Sing Evermore!

no. 4. Refuge (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE

Songs from the High Sierra

no. 3. Yosemite Falls (Text: John Muir)

The Golden Harp (Die goldene Harfe, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER

no. 1. Invocation - I am here to sing thee songs (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER
no. 2. Beloved - If you speakest not (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER ITA
no. 3. Prayer - This is my prayer (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ GER
no. 4. Light, my light [multi-text setting] (Text: Tagore) GER ENG DUT ITA FRE
no. 5. Thou art - Thou art the sky (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER ITA
no. 6a. My Tears of Sorrow - Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ GER
no. 6b. Death, my death, come and whisper to me (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER GER
no. 7. Salutation - In one salutation to thee, my God (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER

The Great Lakes

no. 1. Lyric (Text: William Wilfred Campbell)
no. 2. By blue Ontario's Shore (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
no. 3. Erie Waters (Text: Emily Pauline Johnson)
no. 4. Lake Huron [x]
no. 5. Songs From the Shore; On the breakwater (Text: Carl Sandburg)
no. 5b. Flying Fish (Text: Carl Sandburg)
no. 5c. Fog (a soft shoe) (Text: Carl Sandburg) GER
no. 5d. From the Shore (Text: Carl Sandburg) *
no. 6. Lake Superior (Text: Samuel Griswold Goodrich)
no. 7. As Birds in Flight (Text: William Wilfred Campbell)

The Poet's Heart

no. 1. Joy (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 2. One Being (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. Bliss (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 4. Moon and Sea (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. Remembrance (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

The Sun is Love

no. 2. Quietness (Text: Coleman Barks after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) ⊗*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Acquaintance With Nature (Text: Henry David Thoreau)
A Jewel, A Joy! (in A Heart in Hiding) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
A Kingdom's Worth of Bliss (Text: Emily Dickinson)
All I Have to Bring (in Emily! (from New England)) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
As Birds in Flight (in The Great Lakes) (Text: William Wilfred Campbell)
Beloved - If you speakest not (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER ITA
Bliss (in The Poet's Heart) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
By blue Ontario's Shore (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
Carol of the Brown King (Text: Langston Hughes) *
Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
Dazzling as the Sun (Text: Delores Dufner)
Death, my death, come and whisper to me (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER GER
Dream of Freedom (in Our Dream of Freedom) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Equality Is in the Air We Breathe (Text: Langston Hughes)
Erie Waters (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Emily Pauline Johnson)
Flying Fish (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Fog (a soft shoe) (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Carl Sandburg) GER
Forever at His Side to Walk (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Freedom Will Not Come Today (in Our Dream of Freedom) (Text: Langston Hughes)
From the Shore (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Carl Sandburg) *
God Speaks to Each of Us (Text: Anita Barrows; Joanna Macy after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
Harlem Night Song (in Harlem Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Hold Fast to Dreams (in Our Dream of Freedom) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (in Feathers and Frogs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
I'm Nobody! (in Feathers and Frogs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
Invocation - I am here to sing thee songs (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER
I Thank You God (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
I, Too, Sing America (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
I've Known Rivers (in I've Known Rivers) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
Joy (in Emily! (from New England)) (in A Heart in Hiding) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Joy (in The Poet's Heart) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Lake Huron (in The Great Lakes) [x]
Lake Superior (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Samuel Griswold Goodrich)
Let America Be America Again (Text: Langston Hughes)
let's open the year (in Love! Yes!) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Light, my light [multi-text setting] (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Tagore) DUT ENG FRE ITA GER
Love Came Down at Christmas (in Rejoice!) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
love is a place (in Love! Yes!) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
love is more thicker (in Love! Yes!) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Lyric (in The Great Lakes) (Text: William Wilfred Campbell)
Mindful of You (in Passion and Remembrance) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Moon and Sea (in The Poet's Heart) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Mother to Son (Text: Langston Hughes)
My Letter to the World (in Emily! (from New England)) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
My Tears of Sorrow - Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ GER
No Ordinary Woman (Text: Lucille Clifton) *
now is a bird(singing in a tree) (in Love! Yes!) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
One Being (in The Poet's Heart) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Passion (in Emily! (from New England)) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
Prayer - This is my prayer (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ GER
Quietness (in The Sun is Love) (Text: Coleman Barks after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) ⊗*
Refuge (in Sing Evermore!) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
Remembrance (in The Poet's Heart) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Salutation - In one salutation to thee, my God (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER
Shepherd's Song at Christmas (Text: Langston Hughes)
She walks in beauty (in Love Shall Live Forever) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER GER ITA
Songs From the Shore; On the breakwater (in The Great Lakes) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Spirituals (in Harlem Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Tambourines (in Harlem Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
The Day is Done (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
The Dream Keeper (in Our Dream of Freedom) (Text: Langston Hughes)
The Frog in the Bog (in Emily! (from New England)) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
The Moon and the Sea (in Emily! (from New England)) (in A Heart in Hiding) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Thou art - Thou art the sky (in The Golden Harp) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ FRE GER ITA
Wild Nights! (in Harlem Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
Yosemite Falls (in Songs from the High Sierra) (Text: John Muir)

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