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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Wheeler

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Scott Wheeler (b. 1952)

Website: https://scottwheeler.org/

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

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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.:

  • Ben Gunn
    • no. 1. All at Sea (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
    • no. 2. Goat Dance (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
    • no. 3. Got away from Me (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
  • Democracy: An American Comedy [opera]
    • Oh, what good is any speech of mine (Text: Romulus Linney) *
    • Looking at Stars (Text: Romulus Linney) *
    • How Many Miles to Babylon? (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • Heaven and Earth
    • no. 1. Night (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 2. The Little Vagabond (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 3. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 4. O for a voice like thunder (Text: William Blake)
  • Isabella Letters
    • no. 1. Henry James letter to Isabella (Text: Henry James)
    • no. 2. Kotchan (Text: Okakura Kakuzo)
    • no. 3. From Isabella Stewart Gardner to Bernard Berenson (Text: Isabella Stewart Gardner)
    • no. 4. The Stairway of Jade (Text: Okakura Kakuzo)
  • Lies I Tell Myself
    • no. 1. The Spice Store (Text: Eva H. D.) *
    • no. 2. Canned Fruit (Text: Eva H. D.) *
    • no. 3. Even the Lies (Text: Eva H. D.) *
  • Light Enough
    • no. 1. Proverbs from Purgatory Part 1 (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 2. Is Light Enough? (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 3. More Proverbs from Purgatory (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 4. Six Words (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 5. Yet More Proverbs from Purgatory (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 6. Music for My Ashes (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
    • no. 7. Even More Proverbs (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Oranges and Lemons
    • no. 1. Housekeeping Song (Text: Arthur Williams) *
    • no. 2. A Waist (Text: Gertrude Stein)
    • no. 3. The King of China's Daughter (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • Serenata
    • no. 1. If I had a wife (Text: Mark van Doren)
    • no. 2. Her hand in my hand (Text: Mark van Doren)
    • no. 3. Little Trip (Text: Mark van Doren)
    • no. 4. Desire Like This (Text: Mark van Doren)
    • no. 5. Love me little (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • Singing to Sleep
    • no. 1. Sleep, Sleep my Soul (Text: 17th century)
    • no. 2. A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep” (Text: Randall Jarrell after Rainer Maria Rilke)
    • no. 3. Lullaby (Text: W. H. Auden)
  • Songs to Fill the Void
    • no. 1. Angkor Wat (Text: Robert Barefield) *
    • no. 2. We Spoke of Music (Text: Robert Barefield) *
    • no. 3. Unfathomable (Text: Robert Barefield) *
  • Sunday Songs
    • no. 1. Oriole (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
    • no. 2. Chanting to Paradise (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
    • no. 3. I reason, Earth is short (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 4. Savior! I've no one else to tell (Text: Emily Dickinson)
    • no. 5. Keeping the Sabbath (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • The Construction of Boston [opera]
    • What This Town Needs is Beauty (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • The Palace at 4 A.M.
    • no. 1. The Period of Mourning (Text: William Maxwell) *
    • no. 2. The New House (Text: William Maxwell) *
    • no. 3. The Palace at 4 A.M. (Text: William Maxwell) *
  • The Sorrows of Frederick [opera]
    • Oh my great fat fool of a father (Text: Romulus Linney) *
    • I am the Happiest of Women (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • Three Night Songs
    • no. 1. A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep” (Text: Randall Jarrell after Rainer Maria Rilke)
    • no. 2. Shadow Dream (Text: Colin Morton) *
    • no. 3. The Darker Sooner (Text: Catherine Wing) *
  • Three Russian Nocturnes
    • no. 1. When the city moon appears on the square (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Osip Emil'evich Mandelstam) *
    • no. 2. At Night (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
    • no. 3. Night (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok) *
  • Turning Back
    • no. 1. Aubade (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
    • no. 2. Circe (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
    • no. 3. Lethe (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
    • no. 4. Eurydice (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
  • Wasting the Night
    • no. 1. Thursday (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • no. 2. Recuerdo (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • no. 3. I shall forget you (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
    • no. 4. Time does not bring relief (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • no. 5. The Betrothal (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • All at Sea (in Ben Gunn) (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
  • Angkor Wat (in Songs to Fill the Void) (Text: Robert Barefield) *
  • A Single Flower [multi-text setting]
  • At Home in Staten Island (Text: Charles Mackay)
  • At Night (in Three Russian Nocturnes) (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova) *
  • Aubade (in Turning Back) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
  • A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep” (in Three Night Songs) (Text: Randall Jarrell after Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • A Variation on “To Say to Go to Sleep” (in Singing to Sleep) (Text: Randall Jarrell after Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • A Waist (in Oranges and Lemons) (Text: Gertrude Stein)
  • Canned Fruit (in Lies I Tell Myself) (Text: Eva H. D.) *
  • Chanting to Paradise (in Sunday Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Circe (in Turning Back) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
  • Commuter Buddhist (Text: Jeffrey Harrison) *
  • Desire Like This (in Serenata) (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • Equinox (Text: Erika Mumford) *
  • Et tu, Brute? (Text: William Shakespeare)
  • Eurydice (in Turning Back) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
  • Even More Proverbs (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Even the Lies (in Lies I Tell Myself) (Text: Eva H. D.) *
  • From Isabella Stewart Gardner to Bernard Berenson (in Isabella Letters) (Text: Isabella Stewart Gardner)
  • Goat Dance (in Ben Gunn) (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
  • Got away from Me (in Ben Gunn) (Text: Paul Muldoon) *
  • Helena and the Moonstone (Text: Scott Wheeler)
  • Henry James letter to Isabella (in Isabella Letters) (Text: Henry James)
  • Her hand in my hand (in Serenata) (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • Holy Thursday (in Heaven and Earth) (Text: William Blake)
  • Housekeeping Song (in Oranges and Lemons) (Text: Arthur Williams) *
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? (in Democracy: An American Comedy) (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • I am the Happiest of Women (in The Sorrows of Frederick) (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • If I had a wife (in Serenata) (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • I reason, Earth is short (in Sunday Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • I shall forget you (in Wasting the Night) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
  • Is Light Enough? (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • I will always be on your side (Text: Jack Larson) *
  • Johnny Love Song (Text: Catherine Wing) *
  • Keeping the Sabbath (in Sunday Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Kotchan (in Isabella Letters) (Text: Okakura Kakuzo)
  • Last Lullaby - the Selkie Returns to the Sea (Text: Barbara Wiechmann) *
  • Lethe (in Turning Back) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
  • Little Trip (in Serenata) (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • Looking at Stars (in Democracy: An American Comedy) (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • Love me little (in Serenata) (Text: Mark van Doren)
  • Lullaby (in Singing to Sleep) (Text: W. H. Auden)
  • More Proverbs from Purgatory (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Mozart, 1935 (Text: Wallace Stevens)
  • Music for My Ashes (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Night (in Three Russian Nocturnes) (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok) *
  • Night (in Heaven and Earth) (Text: William Blake)
  • O for a voice like thunder (in Heaven and Earth) (Text: William Blake)
  • Oh my great fat fool of a father (in The Sorrows of Frederick) (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • Oh, what good is any speech of mine (in Democracy: An American Comedy) (Text: Romulus Linney) *
  • Oriole (in Sunday Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
  • Passenger Pigeon (Text: Anna V. Q. Ross) *
  • Proverbs from Purgatory Part 1 (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Recuerdo (in Wasting the Night) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Saint (Text: Jeffrey Harrison) *
  • Savior! I've no one else to tell (in Sunday Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
  • Shadow Dream (in Three Night Songs) (Text: Colin Morton) *
  • She Left for Good But Came Back (Text: Anna V. Q. Ross) *
  • Shining Shore (Text: George Frederick Root)
  • Six Words (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *
  • Sleep, Sleep my Soul (in Singing to Sleep) (Text: 17th century)
  • The Betrothal (in Wasting the Night) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • The Dancers (Text: Regie Gibson) *
  • The Darker Sooner (in Three Night Songs) (Text: Catherine Wing) *
  • The Gold Standard (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • The King of China's Daughter (in Oranges and Lemons) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
  • The Little Vagabond (in Heaven and Earth) (Text: William Blake)
  • The New House (in The Palace at 4 A.M.) (Text: William Maxwell) *
  • The Palace at 4 A.M. (in The Palace at 4 A.M.) (Text: William Maxwell) *
  • The Period of Mourning (in The Palace at 4 A.M.) (Text: William Maxwell) *
  • The Spice Store (in Lies I Tell Myself) (Text: Eva H. D.) *
  • The Stairway of Jade (in Isabella Letters) (Text: Okakura Kakuzo)
  • Thursday (in Wasting the Night) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Time does not bring relief (in Wasting the Night) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Unfathomable (in Songs to Fill the Void) (Text: Robert Barefield) *
  • Waiting for Snow (Text: Scott Harney) *
  • Web of Dreams (Text: Colin Morton) *
  • We Spoke of Music (in Songs to Fill the Void) (Text: Robert Barefield) *
  • What This Town Needs is Beauty (in The Construction of Boston) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • When the city moon appears on the square (in Three Russian Nocturnes) (Text: Jody McAuliffe after Osip Emil'evich Mandelstam) *
  • Yet More Proverbs from Purgatory (in Light Enough) (Text: Lloyd Schwartz) *

Last update: 2023-09-20 04:27:41

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