Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Babbitt

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Milton Byron Babbitt (1916 - 2011)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

no. 1. Wiedersehen (Text: August Stramm)
no. 2. Wankelmut (Text: August Stramm)
no. 3. Begegnung (Text: August Stramm)
no. 4. Verzweifelt (Text: August Stramm)
no. 5. Allmacht (Text: August Stramm)
no. 6. Traum (Text: August Stramm)
no. 7. Schwermut (Text: August Stramm)

Mehr "Du"

no. 1. Fluch (Text: August Stramm)
no. 2. Mondschein (Text: August Stramm)
no. 3. Schön (Text: August Stramm)
no. 4. Trieb (Text: August Stramm)

Philomel

no. 1. Section One (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 2. Section Two : Echo Song (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 3. Section Three (Text: John Hollander) *

The Head of the Bed

no. 1. Heard through lids slammed down over darkened glass (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 2. Where, where, where? Where is here? Where is Herr Haar (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 3. Floor lamps and their shadows warmed the room where (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 4. Slanting lean, gray rain washing the palace (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 5. Coarse breath fanning the closed air by his ear (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 6. He felt his hand feeling another hand (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 7. Down the shaded street, toward an avenue (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 8. The Hyperboreans gathered him up (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 9. Leaving that unfair, seasonless land was (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 10. Beyond the cold, blue mountain and beyond (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 11. Half his days he had passed in the shadow (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 12. When, as if late some night of festival (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 13. He awoke. Low in the sky in August (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 14. Grayish flakes like clay are falling as if (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 15. The bright moon offends him: he plucks it out (Text: John Hollander) *

Three Theatrical Songs

no. 1. As long as it isn't Love (Text: Milton Byron Babbitt) *
no. 2. Penelope's Night Song (Text: Richard S. Childs) *
no. 3. Now you see it (Text: Milton Byron Babbitt; Richard Koch) [x]

Two Sonnets

no. 1. Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 2. That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Allmacht (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
As long as it isn't Love (in Three Theatrical Songs) (Text: Milton Byron Babbitt) *
Begegnung (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
Beyond the cold, blue mountain and beyond (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Coarse breath fanning the closed air by his ear (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Down the shaded street, toward an avenue (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Floor lamps and their shadows warmed the room where (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Fluch (in Mehr "Du") (Text: August Stramm)
Grayish flakes like clay are falling as if (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Half his days he had passed in the shadow (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Heard through lids slammed down over darkened glass (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
He awoke. Low in the sky in August (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
He felt his hand feeling another hand (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Leaving that unfair, seasonless land was (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Mondschein (in Mehr "Du") (Text: August Stramm)
Now you see it (in Three Theatrical Songs) (Text: Milton Byron Babbitt; Richard Koch) [x]
Penelope's Night Song (in Three Theatrical Songs) (Text: Richard S. Childs) *
Schön (in Mehr "Du") (Text: August Stramm)
Schwermut (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
Section One (in Philomel) (Text: John Hollander) *
Section Three (in Philomel) (Text: John Hollander) *
Section Two : Echo Song (in Philomel) (Text: John Hollander) *
Slanting lean, gray rain washing the palace (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves (in Two Sonnets) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection (in Two Sonnets) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
The bright moon offends him: he plucks it out (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
The Hyperboreans gathered him up (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
The Widow's Lament In Springtime (Text: William Carlos Williams)
Traum (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
Trieb (in Mehr "Du") (Text: August Stramm)
Verzweifelt (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
Vision and Prayer (Text: Dylan Thomas)
Wankelmut (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)
When, as if late some night of festival (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Where, where, where? Where is here? Where is Herr Haar (in The Head of the Bed) (Text: John Hollander) *
Wiedersehen (in Du) (Text: August Stramm)

Last update: 2023-05-10 19:21:11