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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Argento

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Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • 6 Elizabethan Songs
    • no. 1. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
    • no. 2. Sleep (Text: Samuel Daniel) GER
    • no. 3. Winter (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
    • no. 4. Dirge (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
    • no. 5. Diaphenia (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
    • no. 6. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) CAT FRE NYN SPA
  • A Nation of Cowslips
    • no. 1. The Devon maid (Text: John Keats) GER
    • no. 2. In praise of Apollo (Text: John Keats)
    • no. 3. On visiting Oxford (Text: John Keats)
    • no. 4. A party of lovers at tea (Text: John Keats)
    • no. 5. Sharing Eve's apple (Text: John Keats)
    • no. 6. There was a naughty boy (Text: John Keats)
    • no. 7. Two or three posies (Text: John Keats)
  • Casa Guidi
    • no. 1. Casa Guidi (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • no. 2. The Italian Cook and the English Maid (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • no. 3. Robert Browning (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • no. 4. The Death of Mr. Barrett (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • no. 5. Domesticity (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • Evensong: Of Love and Angels
    • no. 1. Threnody (Orchestral prelude)
    • no. 2. Preces : Phos Hilaron (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • no. 3. Psalm 102 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • no. 4. The lesson (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • no. 5. Sermon (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • no. 6. Meditation (Orchestral intermezzo)
    • no. 7. Canticle: Nunc Dimittis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
    • no. 8. Prayer/Lullaby (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
    • no. 9. Anthem (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
    • no. 1. The Diary (April, 1919) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 2. Anxiety (October, 1920) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 3. Fancy (February, 1927) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 4. Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 5. Rome (May, 1935) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 6. War (June, 1940) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 7. Parents (December, 1940) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
    • no. 8. Last Entry (March, 1941) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)
    • no. 1. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * GER ITA SPA
    • no. 2. Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * FRE SPA
    • no. 3. Greetings, miss, with nose not small (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) *
    • no. 4. My woman says she will be no one's but mine (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) SPA
    • no. 5. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) *
    • no. 6. You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * ITA SPA
    • no. 7. Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) ITA SPA
    • no. 8. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * GER ITA SPA
  • Letters from Composers
    • no. 1. Frédéric Chopin to a friend (Text: Anonymous after Frédéric Chopin)
    • no. 2. W A Mozart to his father (Text: Anonymous after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
    • no. 3. Franz Schubert to a friend (Text: Anonymous after Franz Peter Schubert)
    • no. 4. J S Bach to the Town Council (Text: Anonymous after Johann Sebastian Bach)
    • no. 5. Claude Debussy to a friend (Text: Anonymous after Claude Achille Debussy)
    • no. 6. Giacomo Puccini to a friend (Text: Anonymous after Giacomo Puccini)
    • no. 7. Robert Schumann to his fiancée (Text: Anonymous after Robert Schumann)
  • Songs about Spring
    • no. 1. who knows if the moon's a balloon (Text: E. E. Cummings)
    • no. 2. Spring is like a perhaps hand (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
    • no. 3. In Just-spring (Text: E. E. Cummings)
    • no. 4. in Spring comes (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
    • no. 5. when faces called flowers float out of the ground (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Three Sonnets of Petrarch
    • no. 1. Sonnet 63 (Volgendo gli occhi) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * FRE
    • no. 2. Sonnet 164 (Or che'l ciel) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * CAT CHI FRE GER GER
    • no. 3. Sonnet 300 (Quanta invidia io ti porto) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * FRE
  • To be sung upon the water
    • no. 1. Prologue: Shadow And Substance (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 2. The Lake At Evening (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 3. Music On The Water (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 4. Fair Is The Swan (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 5. In Remembrance Of Schubert (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 6. Hymn Near the Rapids (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 7. The Lake At Night (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI
    • no. 8. Epilogue: De Profundis (Text: William Wordsworth)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Anthem (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Anxiety (October, 1920) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • A party of lovers at tea (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • Canticle: Nunc Dimittis (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
  • Casa Guidi (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • Claude Debussy to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Claude Achille Debussy)
  • Diaphenia (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
  • Dirge (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
  • Domesticity (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • Epilogue: De Profundis (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Fair Is The Swan (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Fancy (February, 1927) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Franz Schubert to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Franz Peter Schubert)
  • Frédéric Chopin to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Frédéric Chopin)
  • Giacomo Puccini to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Giacomo Puccini)
  • Greetings, miss, with nose not small (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) *
  • Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Hymn Near the Rapids (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Hymn (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Ben Jonson) CAT FRE NYN SPA
  • I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * GER ITA SPA
  • I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * GER ITA SPA
  • In Just-spring (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • In praise of Apollo (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • In Remembrance Of Schubert (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • in Spring comes (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • J S Bach to the Town Council (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Johann Sebastian Bach)
  • Last Entry (March, 1941) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * FRE SPA
  • Meditation (Orchestral intermezzo) (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels)
  • Music On The Water (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • My woman says she will be no one's but mine (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) SPA
  • Ode to the west wind (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) HUN
  • On visiting Oxford (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • Parents (December, 1940) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Prayer/Lullaby (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Preces : Phos Hilaron (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Prologue: Shadow And Substance (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Psalm 102 (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Robert Browning (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • Robert Schumann to his fiancée (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Robert Schumann)
  • Rome (May, 1935) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Sermon (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Sharing Eve's apple (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • Sleep (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Samuel Daniel) GER
  • Sonnet 63 (Volgendo gli occhi) (in Three Sonnets of Petrarch) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * FRE
  • Sonnet 164 (Or che'l ciel) (in Three Sonnets of Petrarch) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * CAT CHI FRE GER GER
  • Sonnet 300 (Quanta invidia io ti porto) (in Three Sonnets of Petrarch) (Text: Dominick Argento after Francesco Petrarca) * FRE
  • Spring is like a perhaps hand (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Spring (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
  • The Death of Mr. Barrett (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • The Devon maid (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats) GER
  • The Diary (April, 1919) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • The Italian Cook and the English Maid (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • The Lake At Evening (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • The Lake At Night (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI
  • The lesson (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • There was a naughty boy (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • Threnody (Orchestral prelude) (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels)
  • Two or three posies (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
  • W A Mozart to his father (in Letters from Composers) (Text: Anonymous after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
  • War (June, 1940) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
  • Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) *
  • when faces called flowers float out of the ground (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • who knows if the moon's a balloon (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • Winter (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
  • Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) ITA SPA
  • You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus) * ITA SPA

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