Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Adler
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A whole bunch of fun [cantata]
- A jellyfish (Text: Marianne Moore) [x]*
- Goo-girl (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- I will arise and go now (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- Myrtle's cousin (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- To a chameleon (Text: Marianne Moore) [x]*
- Myrtle (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- The yak (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- O to be a dragon (Text: Marianne Moore) *
- To His Royal Highness the Dauphin (Text: Marianne Moore after Jean de La Fontaine) *
- Canto V
- no. 1. The importance of poetry or the coming forth from eternity into time (Text: Hyam Plutzik) [x]*
- no. 2. If causality is impossible, genesis is recurrent (Text: Hyam Plutzik) [x]*
- Contrasts
- Five Choral Poems
- Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Nothing is enough (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
- Strings in the earth (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
- Four Poems of James Stephens
- no. 1. The wind (Text: James Stephens)
- no. 2. Chill of the eve (Text: James Stephens)
- no. 3. The piper (Text: James Stephens)
- no. 4. And it was stormy weather (Text: James Stephens)
- In Nature's Ebb and Flow
- The mountains -- grow unnoticed (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- God's World (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- The dark hills (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson) GER
- The lilac (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- Serenade (Serenade, translated by Salvador Pila) CAT
- no. 1. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- no. 2. Mad song (Text: William Blake) CAT
- no. 3. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
- no. 4. The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
- no. 5. The Tyger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
- Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)
- no. 1. Dearest thou now o Soul (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
- no. 2. Quicksand years (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 3. That music always round me (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 4. The last invocation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- Three encore songs
- Things lovelier (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
- The rose (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- Queen Victoria (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- Three poems from the Chinese flute
- no. 1. The flow'rs of evening poured their fragrance into the dusk (Text: Anonymous after Li-Tai-Po) DUT FRE FRE GER GER GER GER GER
- Three Songs
- no. 1. But I was young and foolish (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
- no. 2. Old age (Text: Judith Stampfer) [x]
- no. 3. Time, you old gypsy man (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
- Three songs about love : to texts by early English poets
- no. 1. Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
- no. 2. A ditto (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
- no. 3. Song (Text: Oliver Goldsmith after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- Two Songs for Three Years
- no. 1. My daughter the cypress (Text: Ruth Whitman) *
- no. 2. Song to be sung by the father of infant female children (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- Two Songs from the Portuguese
- no. 1. Simple Song (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Gil Vicente) FRE GER GER
- no. 2. Ballad [x]
- Two Sonnets for Delores
- no. 1. Without you (Text: Gilmore D. Clarke) [x]*
- no. 2. Forever is not measured in the lives of men (Text: Gilmore D. Clarke) [x]*
- Two Views of Love
- Symptoms of love (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
- Unholy Sonnets
- no. 1. The good morrow (Text: John Donne) ITA
- no. 2. The broken heart (Text: John Donne)
- no. 3. Woman's constancy (Text: John Donne)
- no. 4. The indifferent (Text: John Donne) ITA
- no. 5. The triple fool (Text: John Donne)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A ditto (in Three songs about love : to texts by early English poets) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
- A jellyfish (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Marianne Moore) [x]*
- And it was stormy weather (in Four Poems of James Stephens) (Text: James Stephens)
- Ballad (in Two Songs from the Portuguese) [x]
- But I was young and foolish (in Three Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
- Chill of the eve (in Four Poems of James Stephens) (Text: James Stephens)
- Dearest thou now o Soul (in Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
- Drum (in Contrasts) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
- Forever is not measured in the lives of men (in Two Sonnets for Delores) (Text: Gilmore D. Clarke) [x]*
- God's World (in In Nature's Ebb and Flow) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Go, lovely rose (in Three songs about love : to texts by early English poets) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
- Goo-girl (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- If causality is impossible, genesis is recurrent (in Canto V) (Text: Hyam Plutzik) [x]*
- In thine own image (Text: Fania Feldman Kruger) [x]*
- I will arise and go now (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- Mad song (in Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT
- My daughter the cypress (in Two Songs for Three Years) (Text: Ruth Whitman) *
- Myrtle's cousin (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- Myrtle (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- Nothing is enough (in Five Choral Poems) (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
- Old age (in Three Songs) (Text: Judith Stampfer) [x]
- O to be a dragon (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Marianne Moore) *
- Queen Victoria (in Three encore songs) (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- Quicksand years (in Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Simple Song (in Two Songs from the Portuguese) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Gil Vicente) FRE GER GER
- Some one (in Five Choral Poems) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Song to be sung by the father of infant female children (in Two Songs for Three Years) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- Song (in Three songs about love : to texts by early English poets) (Text: Oliver Goldsmith after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- Strings in the earth (in Five Choral Poems) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
- Symptoms of love (in Two Views of Love) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
- That music always round me (in Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- The broken heart (in Unholy Sonnets) (Text: John Donne)
- The dark hills (in In Nature's Ebb and Flow) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson) GER
- The flow'rs of evening poured their fragrance into the dusk (in Three poems from the Chinese flute) (Text: Anonymous after Li-Tai-Po) DUT FRE FRE GER GER GER GER GER
- The good morrow (in Unholy Sonnets) (Text: John Donne) ITA
- The importance of poetry or the coming forth from eternity into time (in Canto V) (Text: Hyam Plutzik) [x]*
- The indifferent (in Unholy Sonnets) (Text: John Donne) ITA
- The lamb (in Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- The last invocation (in Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- The lilac (in In Nature's Ebb and Flow) (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- The mountains -- grow unnoticed (in In Nature's Ebb and Flow) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- The passionate sword (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
- The piper (in Four Poems of James Stephens) (Text: James Stephens)
- The rose (in Three encore songs) (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
- The shepherd (in Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT
- The sick rose (in Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
- The triple fool (in Unholy Sonnets) (Text: John Donne)
- The Tyger (in Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
- The wind (in Four Poems of James Stephens) (Text: James Stephens)
- The yak (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
- Things lovelier (in Three encore songs) (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
- Time, you old gypsy man (in Three Songs) (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
- To a chameleon (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Marianne Moore) [x]*
- To His Royal Highness the Dauphin (in A whole bunch of fun) (Text: Marianne Moore after Jean de La Fontaine) *
- Without you (in Two Sonnets for Delores) (Text: Gilmore D. Clarke) [x]*
- Woman's constancy (in Unholy Sonnets) (Text: John Donne)
Last update: 2025-04-30 04:41:37