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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Carter

 𝄞 Composer 𝄞 

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (1908 - 2012)

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

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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.:

  • 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)

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