Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Wheeler

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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: 2023-05-11 18:42:33