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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Diamond

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David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005)

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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.:

  • 7 Songs by David Diamond
    • Billy in the Darbies (Text: Herman Melville)
    • Four uncles (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • Hebrew melodies
    • no. 1. My soul is dark (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
    • no. 2. If that high world (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER RUS
    • no. 3. Saul (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
    • no. 4. All is vanity (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
  • Three Madrigals
    • Bid adieu, adieu, adieu (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • He who hath glory lost, nor hath (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • Gentle lady, do not sing (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
  • Three Songs
    • If you can't (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • To Music
    • Dedication (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
    • Invocation to Music (Text: John Masefield)
  • We Two
    • no. 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
    • no. 2. Let me confess that we two must be twain (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
    • no. 3. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
    • no. 4. For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE ITA
    • no. 5. O from what power hast thou this powerful might (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
    • no. 6. My love is as a fever, longing still (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
    • no. 7. No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER HUN ITA RUS
    • no. 8. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
    • no. 9. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA RUS

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A flower given to my daughter (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
  • All in green went my love riding (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • All is vanity (in Hebrew melodies) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
  • Anniversary in a Country Cemetery (Text: Katherine Anne Porter) *
  • A Portrait of the Marchioness of Brinvilliers (Text: Herman Melville)
  • As Life what is so sweet (Text: Anonymous)
  • Be music, night (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
  • Bid adieu, adieu, adieu (in Three Madrigals) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Billy in the Darbies (in 7 Songs by David Diamond) (Text: Herman Melville)
  • Brigid's Song (Text: James Joyce)
  • Chatterton (Text: John Keats)
  • Chorale (Text: James Agee) [x]*
  • Christmas Tree (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • David mourns for Absalom (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
  • Dedication (in To Music) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  • Don't cry (Text: Marilyn Monroe, née Norma Jeane Mortensen) *
  • Epitaph (Text: Herman Melville)
  • Even though the world keeps changing (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE RUS
  • For an Old Man (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
  • For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE ITA
  • Four Ladies (Text: Ezra Pound)
  • Four uncles (in 7 Songs by David Diamond) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • Gentle lady, do not sing (in Three Madrigals) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
  • He who hath glory lost, nor hath (in Three Madrigals) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Homage to Paul Klee (Text: Babbette Deutsch) *
  • I am Rose (Text: Gertrude Stein)
  • If that high world (in Hebrew melodies) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER RUS
  • If you can't (in Three Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • I have longed to move away (Text: Dylan Thomas)
  • Invocation to Music (in To Music) (Text: John Masefield)
  • I shall imagine life (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Let me confess that we two must be twain (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
  • Let nothing disturb thee (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Saint Teresa of Ávila) GER
  • Life and Death (Text: Chidiock Tichbourne) [x]
  • Lift not the painted veil (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Love is more (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • Monody (Text: Herman Melville)
  • Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
  • My little mother (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
  • My love is as a fever, longing still (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
  • My papa's waltz (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
  • My soul is dark (in Hebrew melodies) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
  • My spirit will not haunt the mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • No longer mourn for me when I am dead (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER HUN ITA RUS
  • Ode (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy) GER
  • O from what power hast thou this powerful might (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
  • On Death (Text: John Clare)
  • Saul (in Hebrew melodies) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
  • Sister Jane (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)
  • Somewhere (Text: Logan Pearsall Smith)
  • Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari (Text: Katherine Mansfield) ENG
  • The Epitaph (Text: Logan Pearsall Smith) [x]
  • The glory is fallen out of the sky (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • The lover as mirror (Text: Edward Stringham) [x]*
  • The Mad Maid's Song (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • The millennium (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness) [x]
  • The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation (Text: John Bunyan)
  • The Twisted Trinity (Text: Carson McCullers) [x]*
  • This is the garden (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • This world is not my home (Text: Anonymous)
  • Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
  • Warning (Text: James Agee) [x]*
  • When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
  • When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (in We Two) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA RUS

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