Composer: Rick Sowash (b. 1950)

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Website: http://www.sowash.com/

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Along the River
• no. 1. Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• no. 2. I would in that sweet bosom be (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 3. From dewy dreams, my soul, arise (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
• no. 4. Silently she's combing, (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 5. This heart that flutters near my heart (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
• no. 6. O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 7. Sleep now, O sleep now, (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
• Bright April
• no. 1. A little while (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. A maiden (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. Less than the cloud to the wind (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 4. I shall not care (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 5. Grey eyes (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 6. Gifts (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 7. Reprise: A little while (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Chansonata #1: Philosophical Anecdotes
• no. 2. The search (Text: Samuel Rowlands)
• Silvery Songs
• no. 1. The shepherd (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• no. 2. Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) FRE GER
• no. 3. The snowflake (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• no. 4. Wanderers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 5. Rain (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• Songs of assiduity
• no. 1. How very small (Text: Marcius Willson)
• no. 2. Coral insects (Text: Marcius Willson)
• no. 3. A thoughtful boy (Text: Marcius Willson)
• Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
• no. 1. A June Day (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. Love me (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. The tune (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
• no. 4. Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 5. The net (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 6. The sea lover (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 7. Let it be you (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale
• no. 1. Youthful Love: "Love Me" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 2. Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 3. Love at the End: "Let it be You" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Three myths for coloratura soprano
• no. 1. Pan (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 2. Sphere music (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 3. Orpheus (Text: Anne Terry White) *
• Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye
• no. 1. The elm tree (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• no. 2. The Town Beyond the Mountain (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• no. 3. October (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)
• no. 1. The first dandelion (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 2. A noiseless patient spider (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. A Farm Picture (Text: Walt Whitman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Advent hymn (Text: Charles Wesley) [x]
• A Farm Picture (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A Hawthorne Berry (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
• A June Day (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Alexander Throckmorton (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• A little while (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Alone (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• A maiden (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• American Sampler Song
• A noiseless patient spider (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A pavane for the nursery (Text: William Jay Smith) *
• A Seal's Lullabye (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE
• A thoughtful boy (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
• Bid adieu (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Buffalo Bills defunct (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Can't help I'm feelin' so blue (Text: Rick Sowash) [x]*
• Carol of the golden lamb (Text: Kathleen Addlesperger) [x]*
• Cat (Text: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , as J.R.R. Tolkien) *
• Christmas farewell (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
• Coral insects (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
• Creation (Text: Joseph Addison)
• Dear to me, this soil (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
• Earth song (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
• Epitaph for a Kickapoo friend (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
• Everyone sang (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
• From dewy dreams, my soul, arise (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
• From 'The Enchanted April' (Text: Mary Annette 'Elizabeth' von Arnim)
• Gifts (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Give me the splendid silent sun (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Grey eyes (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• High-bouncing lover (Text: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald , as Thomas Parke D'Invilliers)
• How very small (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
• Hunting Song (Text: Donald Finkel) *
• I hear America singing (Text: Walt Whitman)
• I hear America singing (Text: Walt Whitman)
• I shall not care (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• i thank You God for most this amazing (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• It's not (Text: Anonymous ) [x]
• I was remembering this morning (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
• I would in that sweet bosom be (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Less than the cloud to the wind (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Let it be you (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Light is her step (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
• Lo, 'tis autumn (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Love at the End: "Let it be You" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Love me (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Love song (Text: William Carlos Williams)
• Lucinda Matlock (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Lullaby (Text: James Agee) *
• Mr Franklin Proffers Thanks (Text: Benjamin Franklin)
• My Love in her attire (Text: Anonymous 17^th century )
• Newborn baby (Text: William Buckland Ignatius) *
• Night clouds (Text: Amy Lowell)
• Nothing gold can stay (Text: Robert Frost) *
• Nothing gold can stay (Text: Robert Frost) *
• O cool is the valley now (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• October (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• Ohio Farmer (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• On a night of snow (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) *
• Orpheus (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Anne Terry White) *
• Out of Africa (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness , as Isak Dinesen) [x]*
• Pan (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Prairie Prayer (Text: Kathryn Jackson)
• Rain (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• Reprise: A little while (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Silently she's combing, (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Silver (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) FRE GER
• Sleep now, O sleep now, (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
• Song of the Marsh (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• Sphere music (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Strings in the earth and air (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Summer is gone (Text: Odell Shepard)
• Swift things are beautiful (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) [x]*
• The Banks of the Devon (Text: Robert Burns)
• The black swan (Text: Randall Jarrell) [x]*
• The days of our glory (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• The elm tree (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• The first dandelion (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The flower-fed buffaloes (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
• The forgotten butterfly of revelation (Text: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov) [x]*
• The humble heart (Text: Anonymous ) [x]
• The King shall come (Text: Charles Wesley) [x]
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE HUN ITA
• The man who loves nature (Text: Louis Bromfield) [x]*
• The moth and the star (Text: James Grover Thurber) [x]*
• The net (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The Owl and the Pussycat (Text: Edward Lear) GER RUS
• The Picture (Text: Frederick Oakes Sylvester)
• The planting of the apple tree (Text: William Cullen Bryant)
• The sea lover (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The search (in Chansonata #1: Philosophical Anecdotes ) (Text: Samuel Rowlands)
• The shepherd (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• The snowflake (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) *
• The Town Beyond the Mountain (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• The tune (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
• This heart that flutters near my heart (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
• Thoreau (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
• Twig of willow (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
• Twilight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Velvet shoes (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• Walking in the Valley of the Shadow (Text: Odell Shepard) *
• Wanderers (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Western wind (Text: Anonymous ) [x]
• What any lover learns (Text: Archibald MacLeish) *
• When thou commandest me to sing (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER
• When you are old and grey (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN ITA
• Yellow leaves (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE FRI ITA RUS
• Youthful Love: "Love Me" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (Text: Sara Teasdale)

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Last update: 2019-07-23 00:41:18