Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Beeson

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Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Five Songs
• no. 1. On a spiritual fever (Text: Francis Quarles)
• no. 2. A good night
• no. 3. On the World (Text: Francis Quarles)
• no. 4. Epigram (Text: Francis Quarles)
• no. 5. On Death (Text: Francis Quarles)
• From a Watchtower
• no. 1. Mutability (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 2. Ballad: O What Is That Sound? (Text: W. H. Auden) *
• no. 3. Heaven-Haven (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
• no. 4. Ballad: O where are you going? (Text: W. H. Auden) *
• no. 5. The listeners (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Six Lyrics
• no. 1. Dream-Pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• no. 2. Song (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• no. 3. Who sighs that all dies? (Text: Herman Melville)
• no. 4. The moon (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• no. 5. Time (Text: Jasper Mayne)
• no. 6. The conclusion (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
• Three Blake Songs
• no. 1. I laid me down upon a bank (Text: William Blake)
• no. 2. Never seek to tell thy love (Text: William Blake)
• no. 3. I asked a thief (Text: William Blake)
• Three love songs
• no. ?. Crazy Jane on God (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. ?. Her anxiety (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• no. ?. Crazy Jane reproved (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Two Millay Sonnets
• no. 1. I shall forget you presently (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• no. 2. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• Two Songs
• no. ?. Calvinistic Evening (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• no. ?. Senex (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Against Idleness and Mischief and in Praise of Labor (Text: Isaac Watts)
• A good night (in Five Songs)
• A tale told by Mary's lamb (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
• Ballad: O What Is That Sound? (in From a Watchtower) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
• Ballad: O where are you going? (in From a Watchtower) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
• Big crash out West (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
• Calvinistic Evening (in Two Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Cat! (Text: John Keats)
• Cowboy song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
• Crazy Jane on God (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Crazy Jane reproved (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Death by Owl-Eyes (Text: Richard Hughes)
• Dream-Pedlary (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Eldorado (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE GER
• Epigram (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
• Fire, fire, quench desire (Text: George Peele)
• Heaven-Haven (in From a Watchtower) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
• Her anxiety (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• I asked a thief (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• I laid me down upon a bank (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• Indiana Homecoming (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
• I shall forget you presently (in Two Millay Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• Lullaby (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Mutability (in From a Watchtower) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Never seek to tell thy love (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• On a spiritual fever (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
• On Death (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
• On the World (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
• Senex (in Two Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
• Song (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• The conclusion (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
• The listeners (in From a Watchtower) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The moon (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• The You should have done it Blues (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) *
• Time (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Jasper Mayne)
• To a sinister potato (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
• What lips my lips have kissed (in Two Millay Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• Who sighs that all dies? (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Herman Melville)

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Last update: 2022-05-16 19:44:23