Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Gideon

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 4 Epitaphs
• no. 1. Epitaph For A Wag In Mauchline (Text: Robert Burns)
• no. 2. Epitaph on Wee Johnnie (Text: Robert Burns)
• no. 3. Epitaph on the Author (Text: Robert Burns)
• no. 4. Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice (Text: Robert Burns)
• Creature to Creature
• no. 1. The fly (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• no. 2. Spider (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• no. 3. Snake (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• no. 4. Firefly (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• no. 5. Hoot-Owl (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• no. 6. Interlude
• no. 7. L'envoi (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson
• no. 1. An Ode for Ben Jonson (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 2. To Thomas Moore (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• no. 3. Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Questions on Nature
• no. 1. How the earth moves (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗*
• no. 2. Why the planets (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• no. 3. Whence the winds arise (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• no. 4. Whether the stars fall (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• no. 5. Whether beasts have souls (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• no. 6. Why we hear echoes (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• no. 7. Why joy is the cause of weeping (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Rhymes from the Hill
• no. 1. Bundeslied der Galgenbrüder (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
• no. 2. Galgenkindes Wiegenlied (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
• no. 3. Die Korfsche Uhr (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
• no. 4. Palmströms Uhr (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
• no. 5. Der Seufzer (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
• Songs of Voyage
• no. 1. The nightingale unheard (Text: Josephine Preston Peabody)
• no. 2. Farewell Tablet to Agathocles (Text: Florence Wilkinson)
• Sonnets from Shakespeare
• no. 1. Sonnet VIII: Music to Hear (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE HUN ITA RUS
• no. 2. Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• no. 3. Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
• no. 4. Sonnet LXXI: No longer mourn for me (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER HUN ITA RUS
• no. 5. Sonnet CXXIII: No, Time, thou shalt not boast (Text: William Shakespeare) CZE FRE ITA
• Spirit above the Dust
• no. 1. Prologue (Text: Anne Bradstreet) [x]
• no. 2. Theory of Poetry (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• no. 3. The two trees (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• no. 4. The linden branch (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• no. 5. Black boy (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• no. 6. My Caliban creature (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• no. 7. The snow fall (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• Steeds of Darkness
• no. 1. Sovra un destrier dalle fumanti frogie (Text: Felix Pick) * ENG
• no. 2. I hear the last shudder of your flesh (Text: Eugene Mahon) *
• The condemned playground
• no. 1. Pyrrha (Text: John Milton after Horace ) FRE ITA POL
• no. 2. Hiroshima (Text: Gary Spokes) [x]
• no. 3. The Litanies of Satan [multi-text setting] (Text: Millay, Baudelaire) CZE ENG HUN
• The Resounding Lyre
• no. 1. Mutterbildniss (Text: F. Ewen) [x]
• no. 2. Wähebuf und Nichtenvint (Text: Süßkind von Trimpberg) [x]
• no. 3. Hallelujah (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• The shooting starres attend thee
• no. 1. The shooting starres attend thee (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 2. Give me more love, or more disdaine (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. 3. Interlude
• no. 4. Know, Celia, since thou art so proud (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. 5. Around my neck an amulet (Text: Samuel Menashe) *
• Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview"
• no. 1. Gone in good sooth you are (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 2. Night is my sister, and how deep in love (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 3. Moon, that against the lintel of the west (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Wing'd Hour
• no. 1. Prelude
• no. 2. Silent noon (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti) CAT FRE GER GER POL SPA
• no. 3. My heart is like a singing bird (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 4. Interlude
• no. 5. Autumn (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT CHI FRE GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abendlied (Text: Matthias Claudius) CAT DAN DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA
• Ach du, um die die Blumen sich verliebt (Text: Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
• An Ode for Ben Jonson (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Around my neck an amulet (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Samuel Menashe) *
• Autumn (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT CHI FRE GER
• Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire) (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream (Text: Trumbull Stickney)
• Black boy (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• Böhmischer Krystall (Text: Otto Erich Hartleben after Émile Albert Kayenberg) ENG
• Bundeslied der Galgenbrüder (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
• Der Seufzer (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
• Die Korfsche Uhr (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FRE
• Epitaph For A Wag In Mauchline (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Epitaph on the Author (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Epitaph on Wee Johnnie (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Farewell Tablet to Agathocles (in Songs of Voyage) (Text: Florence Wilkinson)
• Firefly (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• Galgenkindes Wiegenlied (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) FRE
• Gather ye rosebuds (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
• Give me more love, or more disdaine (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• Gone in good sooth you are (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Hallelujah (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Hiroshima (in The condemned playground) (Text: Gary Spokes) [x]
• Hoot-Owl (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• How the earth moves (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗*
• I hear the last shudder of your flesh (in Steeds of Darkness) (Text: Eugene Mahon) *
• Interlude (in Wing'd Hour)
• Interlude (in Creature to Creature)
• Interlude (in The shooting starres attend thee)
• Know, Celia, since thou art so proud (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• La pluie au matin (Text: Pierre-Félix Louis , as Pierre Louÿs) ENG ENG GER
• Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT CAT CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG ENG FRE GRE GRE HUN ITA NOR POL RUS
• L'envoi (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• Les elfes (Text: Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle)
• Little ivory figures pulled with string (Text: Amy Lowell)
• Lockung (Text: Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff) DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA
• Mixco (Text: Miguel Ángel Asturias) *
• Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Night is my sister, and how deep in love (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Moon, that against the lintel of the west (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Mutterbildniss (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: F. Ewen) [x]
• My Caliban creature (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• My heart is like a singing bird (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Palmströms Uhr (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
• Prelude (in Wing'd Hour)
• Prologue (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Anne Bradstreet) [x]
• Pyrrha (in The condemned playground) (Text: John Milton after Horace ) FRE ITA POL
• She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Silent noon (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti) CAT FRE GER GER POL SPA
• Slow, slow, fresh fount (Text: Ben Jonson)
• Slumber-song (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
• Snake (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• Sonnet VIII: Music to Hear (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE HUN ITA RUS
• Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE ITA RUS
• Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
• Sonnet LXXI: No longer mourn for me (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER HUN ITA RUS
• Sonnet CXXIII: No, Time, thou shalt not boast (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) CZE FRE ITA
• Sovra un destrier dalle fumanti frogie (in Steeds of Darkness) (Text: Felix Pick) * ENG
• Spider (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• Sweet Western Wind (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The fly (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo Cowles) *
• The linden branch (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• The Litanies of Satan [multi-text setting] (in The condemned playground) (Text: Baudelaire, Millay) HUN ENG CZE
• The nightingale unheard (in Songs of Voyage) (Text: Josephine Preston Peabody)
• Theory of Poetry (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• The shooting starres attend thee (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The snow fall (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• The Too-Late Born (Text: Archibald MacLeish) *
• The two trees (in Spirit above the Dust ) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
• To Music (Text: Robert Herrick)
• To Thomas Moore (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Vergiftet sind meine Lieder (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE FRE IRI POR RUS RUS SPA
• Wähebuf und Nichtenvint (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: Süßkind von Trimpberg) [x]
• Whence the winds arise (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Whether beasts have souls (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Whether the stars fall (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Why joy is the cause of weeping (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Why the planets (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗
• Why we hear echoes (in Questions on Nature) (Text: Anonymous after Adelard of Bath) [x] ⊗

Last update: 2025-07-09 04:17:56