Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Carter

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Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (1908 - 2012)

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

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A mirror on which to dwell

no. 1. Anaphora (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 2. Argument (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 3. Sandpiper (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 4. Insomnia (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 5. View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 6. O breath (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *

In Sleep, in Thunder

no. 1. Dolphins (Text: Robert Lowell) *
no. 2. Across the yard: La Ignota (Text: Robert Lowell) *
no. 3. Harriet (Text: Robert Lowell) *
no. 4. Dies irae (Text: Robert Lowell) *
no. 5. Careless night (Text: Robert Lowell) *
no. 6. In genesis (Text: Robert Lowell) *

Three Poems of Robert Frost

no. 1. Dust of snow (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 2. The rose family (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 3. The line-gang (Text: Robert Frost)

Trilogy

no. 2. Inner Song (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Across the yard: La Ignota (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Anaphora (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Argument (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Careless night (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Dies irae (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Dolphins (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Dust of snow (in Three Poems of Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost)
Emblems (Text: Allen Tate) *
Harriet (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Harvest Home (Text: Robert Herrick)
Heart not so heavy as mine (Text: Emily Dickinson)
In genesis (in In Sleep, in Thunder) (Text: Robert Lowell) *
Inner Song (in Trilogy ) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Insomnia (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
La musique (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE ENG ENG ITA RUS
Let's be gay (Text: John Gay)
Musicians wrestle everywhere (Text: Emily Dickinson)
O breath (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Sandpiper (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Syringa (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
Tarantella ENG
Tarantella (Text: Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. after Not Applicable) * LAT
Tell me where is fancy bred (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
The Defense of Corinth (Text: Jules Barbier; Thomas Urquhart, Sir after François Rabelais)
The Harmony of Morning (Text: Mark van Doren)
The line-gang (in Three Poems of Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost)
The rose family (in Three Poems of Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost)
To Music (Text: Robert Herrick)
View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress (in A mirror on which to dwell) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Voyage (Text: Hart Crane)
Warble for Lilac Time (Text: Walt Whitman)

Last update: 2024-12-18 17:50:53