Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Barnett

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Admirable Eccentrics
• no. 1. Music Is… (Text: Eric Stokes) *
• no. 1. Epitaph (Text: Benjamin Franklin)
• no. 2. Advice (Text: Bill Holm) *
• Due Canti Meridionali
• no. 1. Nel grande letto la notte (Text: Mina Ferraguti) *
• no. 2. Quando rinasceremo (Text: Mina Ferraguti) *
• Four E.E. Cummings Songs
• no. 1. Spring is like a perhaps hand (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. 2. the Cambridge ladies (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 3. Thy fingers make early flowers (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 4. a pretty a day (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Green Magic Songs
• no. 1. A Song of Enchantment (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER GER
• no. 2. Time and Eternity (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 3. Green Man in the Garden (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
• Letters from Planetary Probation
• no. 1. Young Witches (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
• no. 2. Old Witches (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
• Longing for Home
• no. 1. Jerusalem (Text: Robert Mezey after Judah Halevi) ⊗*
• no. 2. Dancing Toward the Promised Land (Text: Alla Renée Bozarth) *
• no. 3. Letter to Marianne Moore (Text: Eugene McCarthy) *
• no. 4. Mother (Text: Bea Exner Liu) *
• no. 5. Voyager Dust (Text: Mohja Kahf) *
• Mad Moonlight
• no. 3. Bat (Text: Louis Jenkins)
• Music for Heroines
• no. 1. In Search of Healing (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• no. 2. Filled with Light (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• no. 3. Wanting to Know the Heart (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• no. 4. I Became Awake (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• no. 5. Through Heaven's Gates (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Sappho Fragments
• no. 1. Tell everyone (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho)
• no. 2. Cicada (Text: Anonymous after Willis Barnstone)
• no. 3. Whirlwind (Text: Willis Barnstone after Sappho) ⊗* GER
• no. 4. Midnight (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• no. 5. Evening Star (Text: Willis Barnstone after Sappho) FRE GER GER ITA
• Three Norwegian Folk Songs
• no. 1. Ingerid Sletten av Sillejord (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
• no. 2. Å vesle Kari vår (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 3. Draumkvædet (Text: Volkslieder )
• Voices
• no. 1. Identity Poem #1 (Text: Nancy Cox)
• no. 2. Even Feminists Falter (Text: Nancy Cox)
• no. 3. Love Poem for Tim (Text: Nancy Cox)
• no. 4. Identity Poem #4 (Text: Nancy Cox)
• no. 5. I didn’t know (Text: Nancy Cox)
• Will’s Ladies
• no. 1. Portia (Text: William Shakespeare)
• no. 1. Juliet (Text: William Shakespeare)
• no. 3. Lady Macbeth (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
• no. 4. Ophelia (Text: William Shakespeare)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Advice (in Admirable Eccentrics) (Text: Bill Holm) *
• a pretty a day (in Four E.E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• A Song of Enchantment (in Green Magic Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER GER
• Å vesle Kari vår (in Three Norwegian Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Bat (in Mad Moonlight) (Text: Louis Jenkins)
• Blessing (Text: Marg Walker) *
• Cicada (in Sappho Fragments) (Text: Anonymous after Willis Barnstone)
• Cleopatra (Text: William Shakespeare)
• Dancing Toward the Promised Land (in Longing for Home) (Text: Alla Renée Bozarth) *
• Draumkvædet (in Three Norwegian Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Epitaph (in Admirable Eccentrics) (Text: Benjamin Franklin)
• Even Feminists Falter (in Voices) (Text: Nancy Cox)
• Evening Star (in Sappho Fragments) (Text: Willis Barnstone after Sappho) FRE GER GER ITA
• Filled with Light (in Music for Heroines) (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Green Man in the Garden (in Green Magic Songs) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) *
• I Became Awake (in Music for Heroines) (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Identity Poem #1 (in Voices) (Text: Nancy Cox)
• Identity Poem #4 (in Voices) (Text: Nancy Cox)
• I didn’t know (in Voices) (Text: Nancy Cox)
• Ingerid Sletten av Sillejord (in Three Norwegian Folk Songs) (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
• In Search of Healing (in Music for Heroines) (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Ithaka (Text: Constantine P. Cavafy) ENG FRE ITA
• Jerusalem (in Longing for Home) (Text: Robert Mezey after Judah Halevi) ⊗*
• Juliet (in Will’s Ladies) (Text: William Shakespeare)
• Lady Macbeth (in Will’s Ladies) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
• Leaves Are My Flowers Now (Text: Michael Dennis Browne) *
• Let It Go (Text: Michael Estok) *
• Letter to Marianne Moore (in Longing for Home) (Text: Eugene McCarthy) *
• Love Poem for Tim (in Voices) (Text: Nancy Cox)
• Midnight (in Sappho Fragments) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• Mother (in Longing for Home) (Text: Bea Exner Liu) *
• Music Is… (in Admirable Eccentrics) (Text: Eric Stokes) *
• Nel grande letto la notte (in Due Canti Meridionali) (Text: Mina Ferraguti) *
• Old Witches (in Letters from Planetary Probation) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
• Ophelia (in Will’s Ladies) (Text: William Shakespeare)
• Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
• Portia (in Will’s Ladies) (Text: William Shakespeare)
• Quando rinasceremo (in Due Canti Meridionali) (Text: Mina Ferraguti) *
• Spring is like a perhaps hand (in Four E.E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Tell everyone (in Sappho Fragments) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho)
• The Blonde Assassin (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• the Cambridge ladies (in Four E.E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Through Heaven's Gates (in Music for Heroines) (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Thy fingers make early flowers (in Four E.E. Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Time and Eternity (in Green Magic Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Voyager Dust (in Longing for Home) (Text: Mohja Kahf) *
• Wanting to Know the Heart (in Music for Heroines) (Text: Jila Nikpay)
• Whirlwind (in Sappho Fragments) (Text: Willis Barnstone after Sappho) ⊗* GER
• Young Witches (in Letters from Planetary Probation) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *

Last update: 2026-03-06 01:22:30