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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Purves-Smith

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Michael Purves-Smith (b. 1945)

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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.:

  • Contrasts in Love
    • no. 1. Upon a black twist rounding the arm of the Countess of Carlisle (Text: Robert Herrick)
    • no. 2. Oh, llama de amor viva (Text: Saint John of the Cross, né Juan de Yepes Alvarez)
    • no. 3. Cancion (Text: Íñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana) [x]
    • no. 4. Sous le pont Mirabeau (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire) CHI ENG HUN HUN HUN
    • no. 5. Jeanne était au pain sec (Text: Victor Hugo)
  • Woodland Sketches
    • no. 1. Amor vitae (Text: Archibald Lampman)
    • no. 2. The bird and the hour (Text: Archibald Lampman)
    • no. 3. Solitude (Text: Archibald Lampman)
    • no. 4. In November (Text: Archibald Lampman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Amor vitae (in Woodland Sketches ) (Text: Archibald Lampman)
  • Cancion (in Contrasts in Love) (Text: Íñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana) [x]
  • In November (in Woodland Sketches ) (Text: Archibald Lampman)
  • Jeanne était au pain sec (in Contrasts in Love) (Text: Victor Hugo)
  • Music when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
  • Oh, llama de amor viva (in Contrasts in Love) (Text: Saint John of the Cross, né Juan de Yepes Alvarez)
  • Solitude (in Woodland Sketches ) (Text: Archibald Lampman)
  • Song (Text: John Keats)
  • Sous le pont Mirabeau (in Contrasts in Love) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire) CHI ENG HUN HUN HUN
  • The bird and the hour (in Woodland Sketches ) (Text: Archibald Lampman)
  • Thina sizwe e zi mnyama (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Upon a black twist rounding the arm of the Countess of Carlisle (in Contrasts in Love) (Text: Robert Herrick)

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