Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Foss

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Lukas Foss (b. 1922)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (13 façons de regarder un merle, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Dreizehn Weisen eine Amsel zu betrachten, translated by Bertram Kottmann) FRE GER

no. 1. Among twenty snowy mountains (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 2. I was of three minds (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 3. The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 4. A man and a woman (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 5. I do not know which to prefer (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 6. Icicles filled the long window (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 7. O thin men of Haddam (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 8. I know noble accents (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 9. When the blackbird flew out of sight (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 10. At the sight of blackbirds (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 11. He rode over Connecticut (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 12. The river is moving (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
no. 13. It was evening all afternoon (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER

Time Cycle

no. 1. We're late (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 2. When the bells justle (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. Sechzehnter Januar (Text: Franz Kafka) ENG
no. 4. O Mensch! Gib acht! (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) CAT ENG FRE FRE GRE ITA SAN

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A man and a woman (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Among twenty snowy mountains (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
At the sight of blackbirds (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Cool prayers (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Ein Märchen vom Tod (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Fable of death, or In praise of death (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
He rode over Connecticut (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Icicles filled the long window (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
I do not know which to prefer (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
I know noble accents (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
It was evening all afternoon (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
I was of three minds (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
O Mensch! Gib acht! (in Time Cycle) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) CAT ENG FRE FRE GRE ITA SAN
O thin men of Haddam (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Prairie (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Sechzehnter Januar (in Time Cycle) (Text: Franz Kafka) ENG
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
The river is moving (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Wanderers Gemütsruhe (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT ENG FRE
We're late (in Time Cycle) (Text: W. H. Auden)
When the bells justle (in Time Cycle) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
When the blackbird flew out of sight (in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) (Text: Wallace Stevens) FRE GER
Where the bee sucks (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER SPA SWE

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