Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Barab

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Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Airs and Fancies

no. 1. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
no. 2. The oocuck (Text: Justin Richardson) *
no. 3. Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
no. 4. Bread and butter (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
no. 5. Five reasons (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
no. 6. Autumn song (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 7. Why does (s)he so long delay? (Text: Thomas Moore)

A Little Light Music

no. 1. Infallible system (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 2. Why Johnny hates school (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 3. A learned man (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 4. Penny scale (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 5. I love a Latin band (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*

Bagatelles

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. Roundelay (Text: John Dryden)
no. 3. Pure (Text: Thomas Moore)
no. 4. The fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
no. 5. If Love were what the Rose is (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
no. 6. Tom (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
no. 7. The owl (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER
no. 8. The pigtail (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE

Bawd Ballads

no. 1. Sylvia and Cupid (Text: John Dryden)
no. 2. Dick and Rose (Text: Matthew Prior)
no. 3. Coridon and Phyllis (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
no. 4. Priest and penitent (Text: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli) [x]
no. 5. He and she (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 6. Alexis and Celia (Text: John Dryden)
no. 7. Strephon and Chloe (Text: Charles Hanbury Williams, Sir, KB)
no. 8. Miss Jane (Text: John Lockman) [x]
no. 9. Elle et lui (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 10. A maid and a man (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 11. A lady (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Bits and Pieces

no. 1. Slow, slow, fresh fount (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 2. The rain (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Did not (Text: Thomas Moore)
no. 4. Waste (Text: Harry Graham) [x]
no. 5. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. Late riser (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 7. Do not love too long (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
no. 8. There was a king (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 9. I heard a linnet courting (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

First Person Feminine

no. 1. Pierrot (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
no. 2. The daisy (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 3. The song for Colin (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 4. The wayfarer (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
no. 5. The look (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 6. Love me (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 7. The kiss (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Four Songs

no. 1. Go lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
no. 2. She's somewhere in the sunlight strong (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
no. 3. Minstrel's Song (Text: Thomas Chatterton)
no. 4. I can't be talkin' of love (Text: Esther Matthews) *

Lovers

no. 1. Careless lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
no. 2. Patient lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 3. Rejected lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 4. Constant lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
no. 5. False lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 6. Perplexed lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 7. Honest lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)

Moments Macabres

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. Old Roger (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Down by the greenwood shady (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. The walk (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. A man of words and not of deeds (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 6. Gypsies in the wood (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 7. Elegy for Frederick the Great (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 8. Mama had a baby (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters

no. 1. I'll Never go to Macy's (Handel) (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Miss Lucy (Donizetti) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. I was standing on the corner (Wolf) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 4. Poor old lady (Moussorgsky) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 5. Charlie Chaplin (Duparc) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 6. Spanish dancer (de Falla) (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Songs of Perfect Propriety

no. 1. Song of perfect propriety (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 2. Now at liberty (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 3. Ultimatum (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 4. Renunciation (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 5. Inventory (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 6. Social note (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 7. A very short song (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 8. One perfect rose (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 9. Wisdom (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 10. Men (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 11. Lullaby (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 12. Comment (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 13. Symptom recital (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 14. The false friends (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 15. Love song (Text: Dorothy Parker)
no. 16. Indian Summer (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 17. Somebody's song (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 18. Song of one of the girls (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 19. Bric-Brac (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 20. They part (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 21. Chant for dark hours (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 22. The choice (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 23. The trusting heart (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 24. Coda (Text: Dorothy Parker) *

The Rivals

no. 1. The daisies (Text: James Stephens) SPA
no. 2. The rose in the wind (Text: James Stephens)
no. 3. The hawk (Text: James Stephens)
no. 4. The rivals (Text: James Stephens)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A lady (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
A learned man (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Alexis and Celia (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Dryden)
A maid and a man (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
A maid me loved (Text: Patrick Hannay)
A man of words and not of deeds (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
An explanation (Text: Walter Learned) FRE
Autumn song (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
A very short song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Bread and butter (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
Bric-Brac (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Careless lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
Chant for dark hours (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Charlie Chaplin (Duparc) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Coda (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Comment (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Constant lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
Coridon and Phyllis (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
Dick and Rose (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Matthew Prior)
Did not (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Do not love too long (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
Down by the greenwood shady (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Elegy for Frederick the Great (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Elle et lui (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
False lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Five reasons (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
Go lovely rose (in Four Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
Gypsies in the wood (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
He and she (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Honest lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
I can't be talkin' of love (in Four Songs) (Text: Esther Matthews) *
If Love were what the Rose is (in Bagatelles) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
I heard a linnet courting (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
I'll Never go to Macy's (Handel) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous)
I love a Latin band (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Indian Summer (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Infallible system (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Inventory (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
I was standing on the corner (Wolf) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Late riser (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Love me (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Love song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker)
Lullaby (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Mama had a baby (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Men (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Minstrel's Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Chatterton)
Miss Jane (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Lockman) [x]
Miss Lucy (Donizetti) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Music, when soft voices die (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
Now at liberty (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Old Roger (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
One perfect rose (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Patient lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Penny scale (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Perplexed lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Pierrot (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
Poor old lady (Moussorgsky) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Prelude (in Bagatelles)
Prelude (in Moments Macabres )
Priest and penitent (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli) [x]
Pure (in Bagatelles) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Rejected lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Renunciation (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Roundelay (in Bagatelles) (Text: John Dryden)
She's somewhere in the sunlight strong (in Four Songs) (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
Slow, slow, fresh fount (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Ben Jonson)
Social note (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Somebody's song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Song of one of the girls (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Song of perfect propriety (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Spanish dancer (de Falla) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Strephon and Chloe (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Charles Hanbury Williams, Sir, KB)
Sylvia and Cupid (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Dryden)
Symptom recital (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The blossom (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: William Blake)
The choice (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The daisies (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens) SPA
The daisy (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The false friends (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The fly (in Bagatelles) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
The hawk (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens)
The kiss (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The look (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The oocuck (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Justin Richardson) *
The owl (in Bagatelles) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER
The pigtail (in Bagatelles) (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
The rain (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
There was a king (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The rivals (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens)
The rose in the wind (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens)
The song for Colin (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The trusting heart (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The walk (in Moments Macabres ) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
The wayfarer (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
They part (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Tom (in Bagatelles) (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
Ultimatum (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Waste (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Harry Graham) [x]
Weep you no more, sad fountains (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
Why does (s)he so long delay? (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Why Johnny hates school (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Wisdom (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *

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