Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Copland

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Old American Songs, First Set
• no. 1. The boatmen's dance (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
• no. 2. The dodger (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 3. Long time ago (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI ITA
• no. 4. Simple gifts (Text: Joseph Brackett, Elder) CHI
• no. 5. I bought me a cat (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
• Old American Songs, Second Set
• no. 1. The little horses (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. Zion's walls (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. The golden willow tree (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 4. At the river (Text: Robert Lowry) CHI
• no. 5. Ching-a-ring chaw (Text: Volkslieder )
• The Tender Land [opera]
• Laurie's song (Text: Erik Johns , as Horace Everett) *
• Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (Douze poèmes d'Emily Dickinson, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Dodici poesie di Emily Dickinson, translated by Ferdinando Albeggiani) (Zwölf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson, translated by Bertram Kottmann) (Dotze poemes d’Emily Dickinson, translated by Salvador Pila) FRE ITA GER CAT
• no. 1. Nature, the gentlest mother (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 3. Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. The world feels dusty (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT CHI FRE GER ITA
• no. 5. Heart, we will forget him (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 6. Dear March, come in! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 7. Sleep is supposed to be (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 8. When they come back (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 9. I felt a funeral in my brain (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 10. I've heard an organ talk sometimes (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 11. Going to Heaven! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 12. The chariot (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER GER ITA

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Alone (Text: Edward Powys Mathers after John Duncan) ⊗
• An Immorality (Text: Ezra Pound)
• A summer vacation (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
• At the river (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Robert Lowry) CHI
• Ching-a-ring chaw (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Dear March, come in! (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Dirge in woods (Text: George Meredith)
• Going to Heaven! (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Heart, we will forget him (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• I bought me a cat (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
• I felt a funeral in my brain (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER GER ITA
• Into the streets May First (Text: Alfred Hayes) *
• I've heard an organ talk sometimes (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Laurie's song (in The Tender Land) (Text: Erik Johns , as Horace Everett) *
• Long time ago (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI ITA
• My heart is in the East (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
• Nature, the gentlest mother (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Night (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
• Old Poem (Text: Arthur Waley after Mei Cheng) ⊗
• Pastorale (Text: Edward Powys Mathers)
• Poet's song (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Simple gifts (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Joseph Brackett, Elder) CHI
• Sleep is supposed to be (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• The boatmen's dance (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
• The chariot (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER GER ITA
• The dodger (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
• The golden willow tree (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
• The house on the hill (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
• The little horses (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
• There came a wind like a bugle (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• The world feels dusty (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT CHI FRE GER ITA
• Vieux Poème (Text: Jules Raphaël Casadesus after Arthur Waley) [x]* ENG
• What do we plant? (Text: Henry Abbey)
• When they come back (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Zion's walls (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Anonymous)

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