Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Sargon
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano
- no. 1. A song of joys (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Walt Whitman) ITA
- no. 3. Dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- no. 4. A clear midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
- no. 5. O you whom I often (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 6. The last invocation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- A River of Honey
- no. 1. Sound the flute (Text: William Blake) GER
- no. 2. Music (Text: Amy Lowell)
- no. 3. A river of honey (Text: Denise Levertov) *
- A Star in a Haymow
- no. 1. Beautiful you are (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- no. 2. Safe in my arms (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- no. 3. A star in a haymow (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- no. 4. As we take each other (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- no. 5. Our bodies were wings (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- Bitter for Sweet
- no. 1. Sound sleep (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. 2. Wrestling (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. 4. Song (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
- no. 5. Holy Innocents (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. 6. By the Waters of Babylon (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Huntsman, What Quarry?
- no. 1. Huntsman, what quarry? (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- no. 2. The buck in the snow (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Intimations of Mortality
- no. 1. Song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- no. 2. Come lovely and soothing death (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- no. 3. I died for beauty (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
- no. 4. Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
- Jump Back
- no. 1. A Negro Love Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- no. 2. Compensation (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- no. 3. Florida Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- no. 4. A prayer (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- no. 5. Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Let it be you
- no. 1. Let it be you (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- no. 2. Wind Elegy (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
- no. 3. Barter (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
- no. 4. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
- no. 5. There will be rest (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Patterns in Blue
- no. 1. Cabaret song (Text: James Agee) [x]*
- no. 2. Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- no. 3. Lonesome Boy Blues (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- Take Five
- no. 1. When I was young (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- no. 2. The dinosaur (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- no. 3. Your little hands (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- no. 4. Hairless (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- no. 5. Lullaby (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein) [x]
- Witness for my Lord, Set 1
- no. 1. Witness for my Lord [x]
- no. 2. Foun' my lost sheep [x]
- no. 3. Two wings [x]
- no. 4. Band o' Gideon [x]
- Witness for my Lord, Set 2
- no. 1. Li'l David [x]
- no. 2. No harm [x]
- no. 3. I done done [x]
- no. 4. When I come to die [x]
- no. 5. Samson [x]
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A clear midnight (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
- A Negro Love Song (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- A prayer (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- A river of honey (in A River of Honey) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
- A song of joys (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- A star in a haymow (in A Star in a Haymow) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- As we take each other (in A Star in a Haymow) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- Band o' Gideon (in Witness for my Lord, Set 1) [x]
- Barter (in Let it be you) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
- Beautiful you are (in A Star in a Haymow) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- By the Waters of Babylon (in Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Cabaret song (in Patterns in Blue) (Text: James Agee) [x]*
- Come lovely and soothing death (in Intimations of Mortality) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- Compensation (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Crossing the Bar (in Intimations of Mortality) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
- Dirge for two veterans (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- Florida Night (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Foun' my lost sheep (in Witness for my Lord, Set 1) [x]
- Hairless (in Take Five) (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- Holy Innocents (in Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Huntsman, what quarry? (in Huntsman, What Quarry?) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- I died for beauty (in Intimations of Mortality) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
- I done done (in Witness for my Lord, Set 2) [x]
- Let it be forgotten (in Let it be you) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
- Let it be you (in Let it be you) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Li'l David (in Witness for my Lord, Set 2) [x]
- Lonesome Boy Blues (in Patterns in Blue) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- Lullaby (in Take Five) (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein) [x]
- Music (in A River of Honey) (Text: Amy Lowell)
- Nocturne (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman) ITA
- No harm (in Witness for my Lord, Set 2) [x]
- Our bodies were wings (in A Star in a Haymow) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- O you whom I often (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Safe in my arms (in A Star in a Haymow) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
- Samson (in Witness for my Lord, Set 2) [x]
- Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz (in Patterns in Blue) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- Song (in Intimations of Mortality) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- Song (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Song (in Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
- Sound sleep (in Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Sound the flute (in A River of Honey) (Text: William Blake) GER
- The buck in the snow (in Huntsman, What Quarry?) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- The dinosaur (in Take Five) (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- The last invocation (in A Clear Midnight: Six Songs set to Poems of Walt Whitman for Baritone, Horn, and Piano) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
- There will be rest (in Let it be you) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Two wings (in Witness for my Lord, Set 1) [x]
- When I come to die (in Witness for my Lord, Set 2) [x]
- When I was young (in Take Five) (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
- Wind Elegy (in Let it be you) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
- Witness for my Lord (in Witness for my Lord, Set 1) [x]
- Wrestling (in Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Your little hands (in Take Five) (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
Last update: 2025-09-22 04:54:35