Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Berger
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A Child's Book of Beasts
- The frog (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The polar bear (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The hippopotamus (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The rhinoceros (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The dromedary (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The yak (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors
- no. 1. He that love's a Rosie Cheek (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
- no. 2. My love is like to ice, and I to fire (Text: Edmund Spenser)
- no. 3. Fain would I love, but that I fear (Text: R. Hughes)
- no. 4. A face that should content me wondrous well (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- no. 5. I prithee send me back my heart (Text: Henry Hughes; John Suckling, Sir)
- Diversion for Three
- no. 1. Prelude
- no. 2. What one may and may not call a woman (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- no. 3. Thee and I (Text: John Ray) [x]
- no. 4. Patience (Text: Robert Dodsley) [x]
- no. 5. Postlude
- Fin, Feather, and Fur
- The caterpillar (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Four Songs
- no. 1. In time of silver rain (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 2. Heart (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 3. Carolina Cabin (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 4. Lonely people (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Just So
- The Camel's hump (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- Of Life
- A crust of bread (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Of Love
- no. 1. He or she that hopes to gain [x]
- no. 2. Fair Julia (Text: Thomas Philipott)
- no. 3. A little ground well tilled [x]
- no. 4. When I admire the roses (Text: Thomas Lodge) [x]
- no. 5. My Love in her attire (Text: 17th century)
- Six Rondeaux
- no. 1. Le premier jour du mois de mai (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- no. 2. Gardez le trait de la fenêtre (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG
- no. 3. Fuyez le trait de Doux regard (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- no. 4. Hiver, vous n'êtes qu'un vilain (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) CHI ENG ENG FIN GER
- no. 5. C'est fait, il n'en faut plus parler (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- no. 6. Puis çà, puis là (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Three Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Belshazzar had a letter (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- Answer July (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- To make a prairie (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
- Three Songs
- no. 1. Gifts (Text: James Thomson)
- no. 2. The vine (Text: James Thomson)
- no. 3. Song (Text: James Thomson) [x]
- Who's Who in the Zoo
- The ant (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The gander (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The hippopotamus (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The camel (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The cow (Text: Ogden Nash)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A crust of bread (in Of Life) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- A face that should content me wondrous well (in Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- A little ground well tilled (in Of Love) [x]
- Answer July (in Three Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- A song of seasons (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
- Belshazzar had a letter (in Three Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- Carolina Cabin (in Four Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- C'est fait, il n'en faut plus parler (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Fain would I love, but that I fear (in Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors) (Text: R. Hughes)
- Fair Julia (in Of Love) (Text: Thomas Philipott)
- Fuyez le trait de Doux regard (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Gardez le trait de la fenêtre (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG
- Gifts (in Three Songs) (Text: James Thomson)
- Good-bye (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Heart (in Four Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- He or she that hopes to gain (in Of Love) [x]
- He that love's a Rosie Cheek (in Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors) (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
- Hiver, vous n'êtes qu'un vilain (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans) CHI ENG ENG FIN GER
- In time of silver rain (in Four Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- I prithee send me back my heart (in Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors) (Text: Henry Hughes; John Suckling, Sir)
- I've known rivers (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
- Le premier jour du mois de mai (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Lonely people (in Four Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Minnie and Winnie (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
- My Love in her attire (in Of Love) (Text: 17th century)
- My love is like to ice, and I to fire (in Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
- Patience (in Diversion for Three) (Text: Robert Dodsley) [x]
- Postlude (in Diversion for Three)
- Prelude (in Diversion for Three)
- Puis çà, puis là (in Six Rondeaux) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Song (in Three Songs) (Text: James Thomson) [x]
- The ant (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The Camel's hump (in Just So) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- The camel (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The caterpillar (in Fin, Feather, and Fur) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- The cow (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash)
- The dromedary (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- Thee and I (in Diversion for Three) (Text: John Ray) [x]
- The frog (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The gander (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The hippopotamus (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
- The hippopotamus (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The polar bear (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The rhinoceros (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The vine (in Three Songs) (Text: James Thomson)
- The yak (in A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- To make a prairie (in Three Poems by Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
- What one may and may not call a woman (in Diversion for Three) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- When I admire the roses (in Of Love) (Text: Thomas Lodge) [x]
Last update: 2025-06-01 16:56:46