Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Sargon

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Simon Sargon (b. 1938)

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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)
• 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 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)
• 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)
• 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 Bitter for Sweet) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER ITA
• 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)
• 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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Last update: 2022-02-25 00:52:37