Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Goble
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Circle of Light
- no. 1. Put out my eyes, I still can see you (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE GER
- no. 1. I throw my life like a stone into the Infinite (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
- no. 3. You, darkness, who birthed me (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE
- no. 4. I believe in all the silent words (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE
- no. 5. You only have to be able to do one thing (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
- no. 6. Wings! I’m coming home! (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
- no. 7. We’re spoken to as we are made, (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
- De Virginibus
- no. 1. O pulcre facies (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
- no. 2. O nobilissima viriditas (Text: Hildegard von Bingen) FRE
- no. 3. O dulcissime amator (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
- Four Polaroids
- no. 1. Settle (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- no. 2. October (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- no. 3. Snowglobe (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- no. 4. Blossom (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- Mountain Angels
- no. 1. A wild crane came flying (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- no. 2. At Sunset (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- no. 3. The Mountain Angels (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- Night Time in the Fourth Trimester
- no. . Epilogue (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- no. 1. Welcome (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- no. 2. Tit-Shy (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- no. 3. I should have worn bikinis (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- no. 4. Please sleep (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- Peter Quince at the Clavier
- no. 1. Just as my fingers on these keys (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
- no. 2. In the green water (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- no. 3. Soon with a noise like tambourines (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- no. 4. Beauty is momentary in the mind (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
- Sea Creatures
- no. 1. The Sea (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
- no. 2. The Mermaid's Song (Text: Anne Hunter) DUT FRE
- no. 3. Opiate (Text: Helen Louise Birch)
- no. 4. Young Sea (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- no. 5. Gulls (Text: Annie Winifred Ellerman)
- no. 6. The World Below the Brine (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 7. Low-Tide (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- no. 8. Sand-Memory (Text: Frederick R. McCreary)
- Song-Lost World
- no. 1. Song in Air (Text: Yonejirō Noguchi)
- no. 2. Under the Moon (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- no. 3. In the fog (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- no. 4. At night (Text: Yonejirō Noguchi)
- no. 6. Spring (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- no. 6. Spring (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- Speak the Feeling
- no. 1. Come - the wind will never again (Text: Emily Brontë)
- no. 2. Alone I sat - the summer day (Text: Emily Brontë)
- no. 3. Riches I hold in light esteem (Text: Emily Brontë)
- Such A Thing Again
- no. 1. The First Wave (Text: Melanie Faith) [x]*
- no. 2. La Grippe (Text: Melanie Faith) [x]*
- The Heart of the World
- no. 1. Ode to the sea (Text: Annie Winifred Ellerman) [x]
- no. 2. In the Rangitaki Valley (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
- no. 4. The Storm (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- no. 5. Never more shall the wind (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
- no. 6. Petals (Text: Amy Lowell)
- Three Teasdale Songs
- no. 1. The Wanderer (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- no. 1. Pierrot (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
- no. 2. I Would Live In Your Love (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Twelve Chairs
- Proof casts a shadow (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Second Juror (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Third Juror (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Tragedy (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Why is the rose (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- And who are you? (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Valentines from Amherst
- no. 1. Come slowly (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- no. 2. Wild nights! wild nights! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
- no. 3. Doubt me! my dim companion! (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- no. 4. Beyond my reach (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
- no. 5. Nobody knows this little rose (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- no. 6. My river runs to thee (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- Alone I sat - the summer day (in Speak the Feeling) (Text: Emily Brontë)
- And who are you? (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- A Thing of Beauty (Text: John Keats)
- At night (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Yonejirō Noguchi)
- At Sunset (in Mountain Angels) (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- A wild crane came flying (in Mountain Angels) (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- Beauty is momentary in the mind (in Peter Quince at the Clavier) (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
- Beyond my reach (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
- Blossom (in Four Polaroids) (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- ¡Claroscuro, canta y el rio! (Text: Alfredo Espina) [x] ENG
- Come slowly (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- Come - the wind will never again (in Speak the Feeling) (Text: Emily Brontë)
- Doubt me! my dim companion! (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
- Epilogue (in Night Time in the Fourth Trimester) (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- Eurydice (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
- Gulls (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Annie Winifred Ellerman)
- Helen of Troy (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- I believe in all the silent words (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE
- In the fog (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- In the green water (in Peter Quince at the Clavier) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- In the Rangitaki Valley (in The Heart of the World) (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
- I should have worn bikinis (in Night Time in the Fourth Trimester) (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- I throw my life like a stone into the Infinite (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
- I Would Live In Your Love (in Three Teasdale Songs) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Just as my fingers on these keys (in Peter Quince at the Clavier) (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
- La Grippe (in Such A Thing Again) (Text: Melanie Faith) [x]*
- Low-Tide (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Memorial to D.C. (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- My river runs to thee (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
- My Song is Sung (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- Never more shall the wind (in The Heart of the World) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
- Nobody knows this little rose (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- October (in Four Polaroids) (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- Ode to the sea (in The Heart of the World) (Text: Annie Winifred Ellerman) [x]
- O dulcissime amator (in De Virginibus) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
- One More Song (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
- O nobilissima viriditas (in De Virginibus) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen) FRE
- Opiate (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Helen Louise Birch)
- O pulcre facies (in De Virginibus) (Text: Hildegard von Bingen)
- Petals (in The Heart of the World) (Text: Amy Lowell)
- Pierrot (in Three Teasdale Songs) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
- Please sleep (in Night Time in the Fourth Trimester) (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- Proof casts a shadow (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Put out my eyes, I still can see you (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE GER
- Riches I hold in light esteem (in Speak the Feeling) (Text: Emily Brontë)
- Sand-Memory (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Frederick R. McCreary)
- Second Juror (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Settle (in Four Polaroids) (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- Sleep on, sleep on (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
- Snowglobe (in Four Polaroids) (Text: Osvaldo Padilla Sanchez) [x]
- Song in Air (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Yonejirō Noguchi)
- Soon with a noise like tambourines (in Peter Quince at the Clavier) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
- Spring (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- Spring (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- The First Wave (in Such A Thing Again) (Text: Melanie Faith) [x]*
- The Mermaid's Song (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Anne Hunter) DUT FRE
- The Mountain Angels (in Mountain Angels) (Text: Vachel Lindsay) [x]
- The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The Sea (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
- The Storm (in The Heart of the World) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- The Wanderer (in Three Teasdale Songs) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- The World Below the Brine (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Third Juror (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Tit-Shy (in Night Time in the Fourth Trimester) (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- Tragedy (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Under the Moon (in Song-Lost World) (Text: Anonymous after Yonejirō Noguchi) ⊗
- Welcome (in Night Time in the Fourth Trimester) (Text: Caitlin Vincent) [x]*
- We’re spoken to as we are made, (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Why is the rose (in Twelve Chairs) (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
- Wild nights! wild nights! (in Valentines from Amherst) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
- Wings! I’m coming home! (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
- You, darkness, who birthed me (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) [x] FRE
- Young Sea (in Sea Creatures) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- You only have to be able to do one thing (in Circle of Light) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke)
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