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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Blitzstein

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Marc Blitzstein (1905 - 1964)

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

Legend:
The symbol [x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database.
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.:

  • From Marion's Book
    • no. 1. o by the by (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
    • no. 2. when life is quite through with (Text: E. E. Cummings)
    • no. 3. what if a much of a which of a wind (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • no. 4. silent unday by silently not night (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]
    • no. 5. until and I heard (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • no. 6. yes is a pleasant country (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
    • no. 7. open your heart (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • Six Elizabethan Songs
    • no. 1. Sweet is the rose (Text: Edmund Spenser)
    • no. 2. Shepherd's song (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
    • no. 3. Song of the glove (Text: Ben Jonson) [x]
    • no. 4. Court song [x]
    • no. 5. Lullaby (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE
    • no. 6. Vendor's song (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Autolycus-Dorcas-Mopsa Trio (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
  • Be with me (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Blues (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Court song (in Six Elizabethan Songs) [x]
  • Displaced (Song of the D. P.) (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Emily (The Ballad of the Bombardier) (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Expatriate (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Few Little English (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Fool's song (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE
  • Fraught (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • How I met my new grandfather (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • In the clear (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • I wish it so (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Jimmie's got a goil (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Joe Worker (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Lullaby (in Six Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE
  • Modest maid (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • o by the by (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • open your heart (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • Orpheus (Lucius's Song) (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
  • Penny candy (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Purest kind of a guy (Joe's Birthday Song) (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Shepherd's song (in Six Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
  • silent unday by silently not night (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]
  • Song of the glove (in Six Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Ben Jonson) [x]
  • Such a little while (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Sweet is the rose (in Six Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
  • The best thing of all (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • The cradle will rock (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • The new suit (Zipperfly) (Text: Marc Blitzstein) *
  • The nickel under the foot (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • Then (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • The rose song (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • until and I heard (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • Vendor's song (in Six Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
  • what if a much of a which of a wind (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • What will it be? (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • when life is quite through with (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • Whilst youthful sports (Text: Thomas Weelkes)
  • With a woman to be (Text: Marc Blitzstein) [x]*
  • yes is a pleasant country (in From Marion's Book) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*

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