Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Harbison

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John H. Harbison (b. 1938)

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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) 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) *

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) 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) *
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) *
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) *
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) *
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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