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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Sargon

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Simon Sargon (b. 1938)

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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.:

  • 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 Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
  • Song (in Intimations of Mortality) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
  • Song (in Jump Back) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • 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)

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