Composer: Paul Frederic Bowles (1910 - 1999)

[Also see this composer's texts set to music]

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.

Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Blue Mountain Ballads
• no. 1. Heavenly grass (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 2. Lonesome man (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 3. Cabin (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 4. Sugar in the cane (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Gothic Suite
• no. 1. Testa dell'Efebo (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 2. San Sebastiano di Sodoma (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 3. The Goths (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 4. Faint as leaf shadow (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• no. 5. Death is high (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs
• no. 1. Once a lady was here (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• no. 2. In the woods (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• no. 3. April Fool Baby (Text: Gertrude Stein)
• no. 4. Farther from the heart (Text: Jane Auer Bowles) *
• no. 5. My Sister's hand in mine (Text: Jane Auer Bowles) *
• no. 6. Secret words (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A little closer please (Text: William Saroyan) *
• April Fool Baby (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Gertrude Stein)
• Cabin (in Blue Mountain Ballads) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• David (Text: Frances Frost) *
• Death is high (in Gothic Suite) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Faint as leaf shadow (in Gothic Suite) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Farther from the heart (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Jane Auer Bowles) *
• Heavenly grass (in Blue Mountain Ballads) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Her head on the pillow (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• In the platinum forest (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• In the woods (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• Letter to Freddy (Text: Gertrude Stein)
• Lonesome man (in Blue Mountain Ballads) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Lullaby [x]*
• My Sister's hand in mine (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Jane Auer Bowles) *
• Night without sleep (Text: Charles Henri Ford) *
• On a quiet conscience
• Once a lady was here (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• San Sebastiano di Sodoma (in Gothic Suite) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Scènes d'Anabase [x]*
• Secret words (in Secret Words: A Suite of Six Songs) (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• Sleeping song (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) *
• Song for my sister (Text: Charles Henri Ford) *
• Sugar in the cane (in Blue Mountain Ballads) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Testa dell'Efebo (in Gothic Suite) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• The Goths (in Gothic Suite) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• The piper (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
• They cannot stop death (Text: Joe Massey) *
• Three (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
• Tornado Blues [x]*
• Voici la feuille (Text: Paul Frederic Bowles) [x]*

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Last update: 2021-01-27 15:24:20