Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Gendel

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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) ENG 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 An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope) (Text: Wendell Berry) *
• At last (in The Space Between) (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) ENG 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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