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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by P. Bowles

 𝄞 Composer 𝄞 

Paul Frederic Bowles (1910 - 1999)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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The symbol ⊗ indicates a translation that is missing an original text.

A * 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) *
  • Cuatro canciones de García Lorca
    • no. 1. Cancioncilla (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
    • no. 2. Media luna (Text: Federico García Lorca)
    • no. 3. Balada amarilla (Text: Federico García Lorca)
    • no. 4. Murió al amanecer (Text: Federico García Lorca) FRE
  • 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)
  • Balada amarilla (in Cuatro canciones de García Lorca) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
  • Cabin (in Blue Mountain Ballads) (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
  • Cancioncilla (in Cuatro canciones de García Lorca) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
  • 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]*
  • Media luna (in Cuatro canciones de García Lorca) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
  • Murió al amanecer (in Cuatro canciones de García Lorca) (Text: Federico García Lorca) FRE
  • 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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