Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Barber
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Despite and still, op. 41
- no. 1. A last song (Text: Robert Graves) *
- no. 2. My lizard (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- no. 3. In the wilderness (Text: Robert Graves) FRE
- no. 4. Solitary hotel (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
- no. 5. Despite and still (Text: Robert Graves) *
- Hermit songs (Chansons d'ermite, translated by Guy Laffaille), op. 29 FRE
- no. 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- no. 2. Church bell at night (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- no. 3. Saint Ita's vision (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) * FRE SPA
- no. 4. The heavenly banquet (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after St. Brigid) * FRE
- no. 5. The crucifixion [multi-text setting] ENG FRE SPA
- no. 6. Sea-snatch (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE GER
- no. 7. Promiscuity (Text: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE GER
- no. 8. The monk and his cat (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
- no. 9. The praises of God (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
- no. 10. The desire for hermitage (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- Mélodies passagères (Fleeting songs, translated by Thomas A. Gregg) (Melodies passatgeres, translated by Salvador Pila) (Vergängliche Weisen, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 27 ENG CAT GER
- no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER SPA
- no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER
- no. 3. Tombeau dans un parc (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER
- no. 4. Le clocher chante (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
- no. 5. Départ (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
- Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music, op. 7
- no. 1. Jack and Jill (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 2. God bless you! (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 3. I love little pussy (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 4. Two old men [multi-text setting]
- no. 5. Tom, Tom, the piper's son (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 6. The Rockaby Lady (Text: Eugene Field)
- no. 7. I do not like thee, Dr. Fell (Text: Anonymous)
- Reincarnations, op. 16
- no. 1. Mary Hynes (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- no. 2. Anthony O'Daly (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- no. 3. The coolin (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- Three Songs, op. 45
- no. 1. Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
- no. 2. A green lowland of pianos (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) *
- no. 3. O boundless, boundless evening (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA
- Three Songs: The Words from Old England
- no. 1. Lady, when I behold the roses
- no. 2. An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- no. 3. Hey Nonny No!
- Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra", op. 40
- no. 1. On the death of Antony [multi-text setting] FRE
- no. 2. On the death of Cleopatra (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- Two Poems of the Wind
- no. 1. Little children of the wind (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- no. 2. Longing (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- Two Songs of Youth
- no. 1. Invocation to Youth (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- no. 2. I never thought that youth would go (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)
- Vanessa [opera]
- no. ?. Under the willow tree (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
- no. ?. Must the winter come so soon? (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
All titles of vocal settings in Opus order
- An Earnest Suit to His Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- A slumber song of the Madonna (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- Au clair de la lune (Text: Anonymous) ENG GER SPA
- Dere two fella Joe (Text: Anonymous)
- Easter Chorale (Text: Pack Browning)
- God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- Hey Nonny No!
- Hunting song (Text: John Bennett)
- I never thought that youth would go (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)
- In the dark pinewood (Text: James Joyce) FRE
- Invocation to Youth (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- Lady, when I behold the roses
- La nuit (Text: Alfred Meurath)
- Little children of the wind (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- Longing (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- Love at the door (Text: John Addington Symonds after Meleager of Gadara)
- Love's caution (Text: William Henry Davies)
- Man (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
- Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
- Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
- Must the winter come so soon? (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
- My Fairyland (Text: Robert T. Kerlin)
- Night wanderers (Text: William Henry Davies)
- Of that so sweet imprisonment (Text: James Joyce) FRE
- Peace (Text: Paul Elmer More after Bhartrihari)
- Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
- The beggar's song (Text: William Henry Davies)
- There's nae lark (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
- Thy love GER
- Under the willow tree (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
- op. 2. Three Songs
- no. 1. The daisies (Text: James Stephens) SPA
- no. 2. With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 3. Bessie Bobtail (Text: James Stephens)
- op. 3. Dover Beach (Text: Matthew Arnold) GER LIT
- op. 7. Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music
- no. 1. Jack and Jill (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 2. God bless you! (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 3. I love little pussy (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 4. Two old men [multi-text setting]
- no. 5. Tom, Tom, the piper's son (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 6. The Rockaby Lady (Text: Eugene Field)
- no. 7. I do not like thee, Dr. Fell (Text: Anonymous)
- op. 8.
- no. 1. The Virgin Martyrs (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Siegbert of Gembloux)
- no. 2. Let down the bars, O Death (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
- op. 10. Three Songs
- op. 11. Agnus Dei (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER IRI ITA MUL
- op. 13. Four songs for voice and piano
- no. 1. A nun takes the veil (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
- no. 2. The secrets of the old (Text: William Butler Yeats)
- no. 3. Sure on this shining night (Text: James Agee) * SPA
- no. 4. Nocturne (Text: Frederic Prokosch) *
- op. 15. A stopwatch and an ordnance map (Text: Stephen Spender) [x]*
- op. 16. Reincarnations
- no. 1. Mary Hynes (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- no. 2. Anthony O'Daly (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- no. 3. The coolin (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
- op. 18. Two songs
- no. 1. The queen's face on the summery coin (Text: Robert Horan) *
- no. 2. Monks and raisins (Text: José Garcia Villa) *
- op. 24. Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (Text: James Agee) *
- op. 25. Nuvoletta (Text: James Joyce)
- op. 27. Mélodies passagères ENG CAT GER
- no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER SPA
- no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER
- no. 3. Tombeau dans un parc (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER
- no. 4. Le clocher chante (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
- no. 5. Départ (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG GER GER
- op. 29. Hermit songs FRE
- no. 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- no. 2. Church bell at night (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- no. 3. Saint Ita's vision (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) * FRE SPA
- no. 4. The heavenly banquet (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after St. Brigid) * FRE
- no. 5. The crucifixion [multi-text setting] SPA ENG FRE
- no. 6. Sea-snatch (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE GER
- no. 7. Promiscuity (Text: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE GER
- no. 8. The monk and his cat (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
- no. 9. The praises of God (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
- no. 10. The desire for hermitage (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) * FRE
- op. 40. Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra"
- no. 1. On the death of Antony [multi-text setting] FRE
- no. 2. On the death of Cleopatra (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- op. 41. Despite and still
- no. 1. A last song (Text: Robert Graves) *
- no. 2. My lizard (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- no. 3. In the wilderness (Text: Robert Graves) FRE
- no. 4. Solitary hotel (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
- no. 5. Despite and still (Text: Robert Graves) *
- op. 42.
- no. 1. Twelfth Night (Text: Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee) [x]*
- no. 2. To be sung on the water (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
- op. 45. Three Songs
- no. 1. Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
- no. 2. A green lowland of pianos (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) *
- no. 3. O boundless, boundless evening (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA
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