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: 17^th 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 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 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: 17^th 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 A Child's Book of Beasts) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The hippopotamus (in Who's Who in the Zoo) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• 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: 2024-05-09 01:13:37