Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Diamond

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David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 7 Songs by David Diamond
• no. ?. Billy in the Darbies (Text: Herman Melville)
• no. ?. 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
• no. ?. Bid adieu, adieu, adieu (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. ?. He who hath glory lost, nor hath (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. ?. Gentle lady, do not sing (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Three Songs
• no. ?. If you can't (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• To Music
• no. ?. Dedication (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [x]
• no. ?. Invocation to Music (Text: John Masefield) [x]*
• 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 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) [x]
• 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 Crena de Iongh, née Herter after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
• 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) [x]*
• 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 St. 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 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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Last update: 2023-03-18 00:20:50