Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Sowash

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Rick Sowash (b. 1950)

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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) GER
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) GER
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

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) *
Hymn: Advent Hymn
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
Joy in the morning FRE POL
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: 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; Byron 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) GER
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 RUS
Youthful Love: "Love Me" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Last update: 2023-02-06 00:54:48