Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Hailstork

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Charm at Parting
• no. 1. Call this whatever name (Text: Anonymous after Stepan Shchipachyov) [x]
• no. 2. I loved you (Text: Zola Essman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) [x] CHI CZE FRE ITA POL RUS UKR
• no. 3. Finis (Text: Waring Cuney) [x]*
• no. 4. A charm at parting (Text: Mary Phelps) [x]
• Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest
• no. 1. Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting]
• no. 2. A love letter (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 3. A frolic (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 4. The Awakening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 5. Thou art my lute (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 6. Little Brown Baby (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 7. A Negro Love Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 8. Discovered (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 9. Accountability / A Hymn / An Ante-Bellum Sermon [multi-text setting]
• no. 10. He had his Dream (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 11. Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting]
• Five Dunbar Lyrics
• no. 1. Morning (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 2. Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 3. The Awakening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 4. Sunset (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 5. Good Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Four Love Songs
• no. 1. My Heart to Thy Heart (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 2. Invitation to Love (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 3. Longing (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 4. Goodnight (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• I've Seen the Day
• no. 1. Midway (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
• no. 2. For my Unborn Son (Text: Robert J. Abrams) [x]*
• no. 3. Where Have You Gone? (Text: Mari Evans) *
• no. 4. Midway (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
• Songs of Love and Justice
• no. 1. Justice (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• no. 2. Difficulties (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• no. 3. Decisions (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• no. 4. Love (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Summer. Life. Song. -- [Introduction to the Set]
• no. 1. I shall keep singing (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs
• no. 2. Answer July (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 3. As children bid the guest good-night (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 4. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• no. 5. Over the fence the strawberries grow (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs
• no. 6. It's easy to invent a Life (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 7. In vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 8. This is my letter to the World (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 9. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Three Simple Songs
• no. 1. In vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. The daffodils (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI CZE GER GER HUN POL
• no. 3. Christmas Everywhere (Text: Phillips Brooks, Rev.)
• Two Biblical Songs
• no. 1. The Song of Mary (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• no. 2. The Song of Ruth (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Ventriloquist Acts of God
• no. 1. Ventriloquist Acts of God (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• no. 2. Sun (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• no. 3. Luna Moth (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• no. 4. The True Story of Adam and Eve (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• no. 5. Deep in the Dark (Text: Ellen Wise) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Accountability / A Hymn / An Ante-Bellum Sermon [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
• A charm at parting (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Mary Phelps) [x]
• A frolic (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• A love letter (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• A Negro Love Song (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Answer July (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• As children bid the guest good-night (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Behold, I Build a House (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Call this whatever name (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Anonymous after Stepan Shchipachyov) [x]
• Christmas Everywhere (in Three Simple Songs) (Text: Phillips Brooks, Rev.)
• Day (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Decisions (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Deep in the Dark (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• Difficulties (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Discovered (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Finis (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Waring Cuney) [x]*
• For my Unborn Son (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Robert J. Abrams) [x]*
• Goodnight (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Good Night (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• He had his Dream (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• If We Must Die (Text: Claude Mckay)
• I loved you (in A Charm at Parting) (Text: Zola Essman after Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) [x] CHI CZE FRE ITA POL RUS UKR
• In vain (in Three Simple Songs) (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• Invitation to Love (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• I shall keep singing (in Summer. Life. Song. -- [Introduction to the Set]) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• It's easy to invent a Life (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Justice (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Little Brown Baby (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Longing (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Love (in Songs of Love and Justice) (Text: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Luna Moth (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• Midway (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
• Midway (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett) *
• Morning (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• My Heart to Thy Heart (in Four Love Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
• Ode to Ethiopia / Compensation [multi-text setting] (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest)
• Over the fence the strawberries grow (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 1. Summer Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Slave Song (Text: Frederick Douglass)
• Sunset (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Sun (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• Tell Me Trees: What Are You Whispering? (Text: Theodore Wilson Harris, Sir) *
• The Awakening (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Awakening (in Five Dunbar Lyrics) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The daffodils (in Three Simple Songs) (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI CZE GER GER HUN POL
• The Song of Mary (in Two Biblical Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• The Song of Ruth (in Two Biblical Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• The True Story of Adam and Eve (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• This is my letter to the World (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Thou art my lute (in Common Ground: An Operatic Songfest) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Thou Art The Soul of a Summer's Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Tie the strings to my life, my Lord (in Summer. Life. Song. -- 2. Life Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Ventriloquist Acts of God (in Ventriloquist Acts of God) (Text: Ellen Wise) *
• Where Have You Gone? (in I've Seen the Day) (Text: Mari Evans) *

Last update: 2024-05-03 04:28:25