Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Cowell

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Day, Evening, Night, Morning
• no. 1. Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 2. Evening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 3. Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 4. Morning (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes, L. 538
• no. 1. Curly-Locks (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. Polly put the kettle on (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 3. Three wise men (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 4. Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (Text: Volkslieder ) RUS
• no. 5. Goosey (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 6. Tommy Trot (Text: Volkslieder )
• Three Anti-Modernist Songs
• no. 1. A sharp, where you'd expect a natural (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 2. Hark! from the pit a fearsome sound (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"? (Text: Anonymous)
• Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes, L. 935
• no. 1. Demand (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 2. Moonlight Night: Carmel (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 3. Fulfillment (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum
• no. 1. Crane (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• no. 2. I heard in the night (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• no. 3. Night-Fliers (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• Two Songs (Zwei Lieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann), L. 492 GER
• no. 1. Sunset (Text: Catherine Riegger) GER
• no. 2. Rest (Text: Catherine Riegger) GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Agnus Og (The Spirit of Youth), L. 228 (Text: John Osborne Varian)
• April, L. 250 (Text: Ezra Pound) *
• A sharp, where you'd expect a natural (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• Because the Cat, L. 820 (Text: Barbara Allan Davis) *
• Crane, L. 825 (in Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum) (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• Curly-Locks, L. 538 no. 1 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Daybreak, L. 694 (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Day (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Demand, L. 935 no. 1 (in Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester, L. 538 no. 4 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder ) RUS
• Evening (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Fire and ice (Text: Robert Frost)
• Firelight and Lamp, L. 910 (Text: Gene Baro) *
• Fulfillment, L. 935 no. 3 (in Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Goosey, L. 538 no. 5 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Hark! from the pit a fearsome sound (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• How old is song, L. 477 (Text: Harry Cowell)
• I heard in the night, L. 826 (in Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum) (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• Manaunaun's Birthing, L. 387 (Text: John Osborne Varian)
• Mice lament, L. 604 (Text: Ella Viola Grainger, née Strom) *
• Moonlight Night: Carmel, L. 935 no. 2 (in Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Morning (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Music I Heard, L. 891 (Text: Conrad Aiken)
• Music, when soft voices die, L. 358 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• Night-Fliers, L. 827 (in Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum) (Text: Padraic Colum) *
• Night (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Polly put the kettle on, L. 538 no. 2 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Rest, L. 492 no. 2 (in Two Songs) (Text: Catherine Riegger) GER
• Song in the songless, L. 330 (Text: George Meredith)
• Spring Pools, L. 864 (Text: Robert Frost)
• St. Agnes' Morning, L. 152 (Text: Maxwell Anderson)
• Sunset, L. 492 no. 1 (in Two Songs) (Text: Catherine Riegger) GER
• The donkey, L. 695 (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
• The Dream-Bridge , L. 175 (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
• The little black boy, L. 783 (Text: William Blake)
• The Morning Pool, L. 244 (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
• The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)
• Three wise men, L. 538 no. 3 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Tommy Trot, L. 538 no. 6 (in Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Where she lies, L. 400 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"? (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs) (Text: Anonymous)

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