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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Harbison

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John H. Harbison (b. 1938)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • 6 Mirabai Songs
    • no. 1. It's true, I went to the market (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
    • no. 2. All I was doing was breathing (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
    • no. 3. Why Mira can't go back to her old house (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
    • no. 4. Where did you go (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
    • no. 5. The clouds (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
    • no. 6. Don't go, don't go (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Five Songs of Experience
    • no. 1. Hear the voice of the bard (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 2. Earth's answer (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 3. Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
    • no. 4. The voice of the ancient bard (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 5. A divine image (Text: William Blake)
  • Flashes and Illuminations
    • no. 1. On the Greve (Text: Anonymous after Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 2. Chemin de Fer (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 3. The winds of dawn (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 4. Cirque d'hiver (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 5. To be recited to Flossie on her birthday (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
    • no. 6. December 1 (Text: Czesław Miłosz) *
  • Mottetti di Montale, Libro I
    • no. 1. Lo sai (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 2. Molti anni (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 3. Brina sui vetri (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 4. Lontano (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 5. Addi (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 6. La speranza (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Mottetti di Montale, Libro II
    • no. 1. Il saliscendi (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 2. Ecco il segno (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 3. Il ramarro (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 4. Perché tardi (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 5. L'anima (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 6. Ti libero (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Mottetti di Montale, Libro III
    • no. 1. La gondola (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 2. Infuria (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 3. Al primo chiaro (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 4. Il fiore (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Mottetti di Montale, Libro IV
    • no. 1. La rana (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 2. Non recidere (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 3. La canna (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
    • no. 4. Ma così sa (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • North and South
    • no. 1. Ballad for Billie I (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 2. Late air (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 3. Breakfast song (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 4. Ballad for Billie II (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 5. Song (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
    • no. 6. Dear, my compass... (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Simple Daylight
    • no. 1. Japan (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 2. Simple daylight (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 3. Somewhere a seed (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 4. Your name (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 5. The wild irises (Text: Michael Fried) *
    • no. 6. Odor (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • Symphony No. 5
    • no. 1. Con fuoco (Miłosz, Orpheus and Eurydice) (Text: Czesław Miłosz; Robert L. Hass after Czesław Miłosz) *
    • no. 2. Andante cantabile (Miłosz) (Text: Czesław Miłosz; Robert L. Hass after Czesław Miłosz) *
    • no. 3. Grave (Louise Glück, Relic) (Text: Louise Elisabeth Glück) *
    • no. 4. Lento (Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus II, 13) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
  • The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
    • no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
    • no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
    • no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
    • no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
    • no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
    • no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
    • no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
    • no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
    • no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
    • no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
    • no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
    • no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
    • no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
    • no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
    • no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
    • no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
    • no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
    • no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
  • The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
    • no. 1. The flower-fed buffaloes (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
    • no. 2. Enrich my resignation (Text: Hart Crane) [x]
    • no. 3. Depths (Text: Michael Fried) [x]*
    • no. 4. Above Pate Valley (Text: Gary Snyder) *
    • no. 5. The amaranth (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The Rewaking
    • no. 1. The woodthrush (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
    • no. 2. To a woodpecker (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
    • no. 3. The lady speaks (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
    • no. 4. The rewaking (Text: William Carlos Williams) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Above Pate Valley (in The Flower-Fed Buffaloes) (Text: Gary Snyder) *
  • Addi (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • A divine image (in Five Songs of Experience) (Text: William Blake)
  • Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time (in Five Songs of Experience) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
  • All I was doing was breathing (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Al primo chiaro (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro III) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Andante cantabile (Miłosz) (in Symphony No. 5) (Text: Czesław Miłosz; Robert L. Hass after Czesław Miłosz) *
  • Ballad for Billie I (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Ballad for Billie II (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Breakfast song (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Brina sui vetri (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Chemin de Fer (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Cirque d'hiver (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Con fuoco (Miłosz, Orpheus and Eurydice) (in Symphony No. 5) (Text: Czesław Miłosz; Robert L. Hass after Czesław Miłosz) *
  • Dear, my compass... (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • December 1 (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: Czesław Miłosz) *
  • Depths (in The Flower-Fed Buffaloes) (Text: Michael Fried) [x]*
  • Don't go, don't go (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Earth's answer (in Five Songs of Experience) (Text: William Blake)
  • Ecco il segno (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Enrich my resignation (in The Flower-Fed Buffaloes) (Text: Hart Crane) [x]
  • God only knows (Text: Dana Gioia) *
  • Grave (Louise Glück, Relic) (in Symphony No. 5) (Text: Louise Elisabeth Glück) *
  • Hear the voice of the bard (in Five Songs of Experience) (Text: William Blake)
  • Il fiore (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro III) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Il ramarro (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Il saliscendi (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Infuria (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro III) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • It's true, I went to the market (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Japan (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • La canna (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro IV) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • La gondola (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro III) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • L'anima (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • La rana (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro IV) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • La speranza (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Late air (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • Lento (Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus II, 13) (in Symphony No. 5) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
  • Lontano (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Lo sai (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Ma così sa (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro IV) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Molti anni (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro I) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Non recidere (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro IV) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Odor (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • On the Greve (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: Anonymous after Eugenio Montale) *
  • Perché tardi (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • Simple daylight (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • Somewhere a seed (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • Song (in North and South) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
  • The amaranth (in The Flower-Fed Buffaloes) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The clouds (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • The flower-fed buffaloes (in The Flower-Fed Buffaloes) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The flute of interior time (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
  • The lady speaks (in The Rewaking) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
  • The rewaking (in The Rewaking) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
  • The voice of the ancient bard (in Five Songs of Experience) (Text: William Blake)
  • The wild irises (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • The winds of dawn (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: Michael Fried) *
  • The woodthrush (in The Rewaking) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
  • Ti libero (in Mottetti di Montale, Libro II) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
  • To a woodpecker (in The Rewaking) (Text: William Carlos Williams) [x]*
  • To be recited to Flossie on her birthday (in Flashes and Illuminations) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
  • Vocalism (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • Where did you go (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Why Mira can't go back to her old house (in 6 Mirabai Songs) (Text: Robert Bly after Mirabai) *
  • Your name (in Simple Daylight) (Text: Michael Fried) *

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