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] (Text: Jones) FRE ENG 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 (Melodies passatgeres, translated by Salvador Pila) (Fleeting songs, translated by Thomas A. Gregg) (Vergängliche Weisen, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 27 CAT ENG GER
• no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER SPA
• no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG 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] (Text: Lear)
• 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] (Text: Shakespeare) 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]
• Under the willow tree (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
• 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) ⊗
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• 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] (Text: Lear)
  • 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
  • no. 1. Rain has fallen (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL SPA
  • no. 2. Sleep now (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
  • no. 3. I hear an army (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• 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 CAT ENG GER
  • no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG ENG GER SPA
  • no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT ENG 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] (Text: Jones) ENG SPA 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] (Text: Shakespeare) 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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