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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Carpenter

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John Alden Carpenter (1876 - 1951)

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

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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.:

  • Eight Songs
    • no. 1. The green river (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
    • no. 2. Don't ceäre (Text: William Barnes)
    • no. 3. Looking-Glass River (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
    • no. 4. Bid me to live (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
    • no. 4. Dis-moi d'aimer (Text: Maurice Maeterlinck after Robert Herrick)
    • no. 5. Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
    • no. 6. The cock shall crow (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
    • no. 7. The little fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
    • no. 8. A cradle-song (Text: William Blake) GER
  • Four Negro Songs
    • no. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 2. The cryin' blues (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 3. Jazz-Boys (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 4. That soothin' song (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • Four Poems by Paul Verlaine
    • no. 1. Il pleure dans mon cœur (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
    • no. 2. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
    • no. 3. Le ciel (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
    • no. 4. Dansons la gigue! (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
  • Four Songs for a Medium Voice
    • no. 1. Les Silhouettes (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
    • no. 2. Her Voice (Text: Oscar Wilde)
    • no. 3. To one unknown (Text: Helen Dudley)
    • no. 4. Fog wraiths (Text: Mildred Howells)
  • Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (Gitanjali - Sangesopfer, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
    • no. 1. When I bring to you colour’d toys (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
    • no. 2. On the day when death will knock at thy door (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER GER SWE
    • no. 3. The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
    • no. 4. I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
    • no. 5. On the seashore of endless worlds children meet (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
    • no. 6. Light, my light (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Three Songs for a Medium Voice
    • no. 1. The Lawd is smilin' through the do’ (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 2. Wull ye come in eärly Spring (Text: William Barnes)
    • no. 3. Treat me nice (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems
    • no. 1. On a screen (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Tai-Po)
    • no. 2. The odalisque (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Liu Yuxi)
    • no. 3. Highwaymen (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Shê)
    • no. 4. To a young gentleman (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A cradle-song (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Blake) GER
  • Berceuse de guerre (Text: Émile Cammaerts) ENG
  • Bid me to live (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
  • Chanson d'automne (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
  • Dansons la gigue! (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
  • Dis-moi d'aimer (in Eight Songs) (Text: Maurice Maeterlinck after Robert Herrick)
  • Don't ceäre (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Barnes)
  • En sourdine (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CAT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GRE SPA SPA
  • Fog wraiths (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Mildred Howells)
  • Go, lovely rose (in Eight Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
  • Her Voice (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
  • Highwaymen (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Shê)
  • I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
  • I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
  • Il pleure dans mon cœur (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
  • Jazz-Boys (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Khaki Sammy (Text: John Alden Carpenter)
  • Le ciel (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
  • Les Silhouettes (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
  • Light, my light (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
  • Looking-Glass River (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • May the Maiden (Text: Sidney Lanier)
  • Morning Fair (Text: James Agee) [x]*
  • On a screen (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Tai-Po)
  • On the day when death will knock at thy door (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER GER SWE
  • On the seashore of endless worlds children meet (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
  • On the Seashore of Endless Worlds (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
  • Serenade (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
  • Shake your brown feet, honey (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Slumber-song (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
  • That soothin' song (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
  • The cock shall crow (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • The cryin' blues (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • The day is no more (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE FRE GER GER ITA
  • The green river (in Eight Songs) (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
  • The Home Road (Text: John Alden Carpenter)
  • The Lawd is smilin' through the do’ (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • The little fly (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
  • The little turtle (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The odalisque (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Liu Yuxi)
  • The Player Queen (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
  • The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
  • To a young gentleman (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
  • To one unknown (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Helen Dudley)
  • Treat me nice (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • When I bring to you colour’d toys (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
  • When the misty shadows glide (Text: John Alden Carpenter after Paul Verlaine) CAT CAT GER GER GER GRE SPA SPA
  • Wull ye come in eärly Spring (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: William Barnes)
  • Young Man, Chieftain! - An Indian Prayer (Text: Mary Hunter Austin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

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