Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Gendel

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Scott Gendel (b. 1977)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope [multi-composer]

At last, composed by Scott Gendel (Text: Wendell Berry) *

Evensong

no. 1. To The Evening Star (Text: William Blake) CZE GER
no. 2. Interlude
no. 3. The angel (Text: William Blake)

Forgotten Light

no. 1. Wild Nights! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
no. 2. A quiet way (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. Bring me the sunset (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 4. Heart! We will forget him (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
no. 5. I reason (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. The silent end (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 7. After great pain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER

For Miriam

no. 1. Beside thee (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
no. 2. Awash with roses (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
no. 3. Nearer thee (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
no. 4. Declaring Beauty (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
no. 5. Angels (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *

I'm Afraid it's You

no. 1. Valentine (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
no. 2. Loss (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
no. 3. After the lunch (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
no. 4. The orange (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
no. 5. Variation on a Lennon and McCartney song (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
no. 6. A vow (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*

Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined

no. 1. Caro mio ben (Text: Anonymous) ENG ENG FRE GER GER POR SPA
no. 2. O del mio dolce ardor (Text: Raniero de' Calzabigi) DUT ENG GER POR SPA SPA
no. 3. Come raggio di sol ENG POR SPA
no. 4. Sebben, crudele ENG GER POR
no. 5. Se tu m'ami (Text: Paolo Antonio Rolli) ENG FRE GER POR SPA SPA
no. 6. Amarilli, mia bella (Text: Giovanni Battista Guarini; Alessandro Guarini) ENG ENG FRE GER IRI POR SPA SPA
no. 7. Le violette (Text: Adriano Morselli) ENG FRE GER GRE IRI POR SPA
no. 8. Danza, danza, fanciulla (Text: Lorenzo Pagans) FRE POR SPA

Keats Songs

no. 1. A valentine (Text: John Keats)
no. 2. To sleep (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
no. 3. Daisy's song (Text: John Keats)
no. 4. A vision (Text: John Keats)
no. 5. One day (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE

Love Songs of Marichiko

no. 1. I love you (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 2. Ten thousand miles (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 3. Before we were lovers (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 4. Listen (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 5. Sea water (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 6. A single ray (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 7. My full heart (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 8. Only dreams (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 9. Love me (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 10. I waited all night (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 11. My sorrow (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 12. Alone (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
no. 13. Half in a dream (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*

My Songs Do Not Belong To Me

no. 1. What do I care? (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 2. Understanding (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 3. Moonlight (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 4. Alone (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
no. 5. Blue squills (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 6. My heart is heavy (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Shadow Songs

no. 1. Hear my voice (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. Mad song (Text: William Blake) CAT
no. 3. Memory (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. Fade away (Text: William Blake)

Songs for Marie’s Lutebook

no. 1. The blue-eyed grass (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
no. 2. The sea is quiet (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
no. 3. From the plum (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
no. 4. What years are these? (Greensleeves) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *

The Space Between

no. 1. The peace of wild things (Text: Wendell Berry) *
no. 2. Whatever happens (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
no. 3. A song of thanks (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
no. 4. In this world (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
no. 5. Hate has no world (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
no. 6. We will not leave (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
no. 7. At last (Text: Wendell Berry) *

Violi Songs

no. 1. Sleeping dactyls and lurking Iambs (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
no. 2. Serenade (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
no. 3. Progression (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
no. 4. Good news (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*

What we did not know

no. 1. A feather in Times Square (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
no. 2. As you leave the train (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
no. 3. Cnidarian (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
no. 4. What we did not know (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
no. 5. Starlight at Canaan (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Advice to those like me, with hearts like kindling (Text: Clementine von Radics) *
A feather in Times Square (in What we did not know) (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
After great pain (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
After the lunch (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
Alone (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
Alone (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Amarilli, mia bella (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Giovanni Battista Guarini; Alessandro Guarini) ENG ENG FRE GER IRI POR SPA SPA
Angels (in For Miriam) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
Annabel Lee (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE RUS
A quiet way (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
A single ray (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
A song of thanks (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
As you leave the train (in What we did not know) (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
At last (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) *
At last (in An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope) (Text: Wendell Berry) *
A valentine (in Keats Songs) (Text: John Keats)
A vision (in Keats Songs) (Text: John Keats)
A vow (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
Awash with roses (in For Miriam) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
Before we were lovers (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Beside thee (in For Miriam) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
Blue squills (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Bring me the sunset (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Caro mio ben (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Anonymous) ENG ENG FRE GER GER POR SPA
Cnidarian (in What we did not know) (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
Come raggio di sol (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) ENG POR SPA
Daisy's song (in Keats Songs) (Text: John Keats)
Danza, danza, fanciulla (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Lorenzo Pagans) FRE POR SPA
Declaring Beauty (in For Miriam) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
DiPrima Songs [song cycle] (Text: Diane DiPrima) [x]*
Facts about the moon (Text: Dorianne Laux) [x]*
Fade away (in Shadow Songs) (Text: William Blake)
From the plum (in Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
Gic to Har (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
Good news (in Violi Songs) (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
Half in a dream (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Hate has no world (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
Hear my voice (in Shadow Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Heart! We will forget him (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
I dreamed (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
I love you (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Interlude (in Evensong)
In this world (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
I reason (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
I waited all night (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Kids who die (Text: Langston Hughes)
Le violette (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Adriano Morselli) ENG FRE GER GRE IRI POR SPA
Listen (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Loss (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
Love me (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Mad song (in Shadow Songs) (Text: William Blake) CAT
Meditation at Oyster River (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Memory (in Shadow Songs) (Text: William Blake)
Metamorphosis (Text: Daniel Neer) [x]*
Moonlight (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
My beloved (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
My full heart (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
My heart is heavy (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
My sorrow (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
My symphony (Text: William Ellery Channing)
Nearer thee (in For Miriam) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
O del mio dolce ardor (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Raniero de' Calzabigi) DUT ENG GER POR SPA SPA
One day (in Keats Songs) (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE
Only dreams (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Outside the leaves were falling (Text: Lawrence Ferlinghetti) [x]*
Patterns (Text: Amy Lowell)
Player piano (Text: Randall Jarrell) [x]*
Progression (in Violi Songs) (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
Return and return again (Text: James Laughlin) *
Sea water (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
Sebben, crudele (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) ENG GER POR
Serenade (in Violi Songs) (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
Se tu m'ami (in Italian Art Songs & Arias, Reimagined) (Text: Paolo Antonio Rolli) ENG FRE GER POR SPA SPA
Since I left you (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Sleeping dactyls and lurking Iambs (in Violi Songs) (Text: Paul Violi) [x]*
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Spring (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
Starlight at Canaan (in What we did not know) (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
Ten thousand miles (in Love Songs of Marichiko) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) [x]*
The angel (in Evensong) (Text: William Blake)
The blue-eyed grass (in Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
The orange (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
The peace of wild things (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) *
The saddest noise (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The sea is quiet (in Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
The silent end (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
To sleep (in Keats Songs) (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
To The Evening Star (in Evensong) (Text: William Blake) CZE GER
To Wander in the Dark [song cycle] [x]
Understanding (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Valentine (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
Variation on a Lennon and McCartney song (in I'm Afraid it's You) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
We will not leave (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
What do I care? (in My Songs Do Not Belong To Me) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Whatever happens (in The Space Between) (Text: Wendell Berry) [x]*
What we did not know (in What we did not know) (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
What years are these? (Greensleeves) (in Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth) *
Wild Nights! (in Forgotten Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA

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