Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Hoiby

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Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Chants d'Exil

no. 1. Lucioles (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
no. 2. Anniversaire (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
no. 3. Chant du kisandji (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*

Four Dickinson Songs (Vier Dickinsonlieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER

no. 1. A letter (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 2. How the Waters closed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
no. 3. Wild nights (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
no. 4. There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

I was there

no. 1. Beginning my studies (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. I was there (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. A clear midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
no. 4. O captain! My captain! (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
no. 5. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE

Night Songs

no. 1. Night (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
no. 2. Pierrot (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
no. 3. Angélique (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
no. 4. The shroud (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)

O Florida, op. 39

no. 1. Floral Decorations for Bananas (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
no. 2. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 3. Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
no. 4. Before My Door (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
no. 5. O Florida (Text: Wallace Stevens) *

Rain Forest

no. 1. Giant Toad (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 2. Strayed crab (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 3. Giant snail (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 4. Sandpiper (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *

Songs for Leontyne

no. 1. The doe (Text: John Fandel) *
no. 2. Evening (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
no. 3. Autumn (Text: Harry Duncan after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER ITA
no. 4. Winter song (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
no. 5. In the wand of the wind (Text: John Fandel) *
no. 6. The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *

Songs of the Fool

no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
no. 2. Come away, Death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 3. When that I was and a little boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE

Sonnets and Soliloquies

no. 1. If music be the food of love (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 2. Sonnet 116 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER GER ITA
no. 3. Sonnet 128 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
no. 4. Portia's Plea (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE POL SPA

Southern Voices

no. 1. Butterflies (Text: Archibald Randolph Ammons) [x]*
no. 2. Lullaby (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
no. 3. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter (Text: John Crowe Ransom) *
no. 4. Berenice Sadie Brown (Text: Carson McCullers) [x]*

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 Life of the Bee

no. 1. Millennium Approaches (Text: Jeffery Beam)
no. 2. The Spirit of the Hive (Text: Jeffery Beam)
no. 3. The Queen (Text: Jeffery Beam)
no. 4. The Sting (Text: Jeffery Beam)
no. 5. The Swarm (Text: Jeffery Beam)

Three Ages of Woman

no. 1. Manners (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 2. Filling Station (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
no. 3. Insomnia (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *

Three Women

no. ?. Miss Alma Calls (Text: Tennessee Williams) [x]*
no. 2. Lady of the harbor (Text: Emma Lazarus)
no. 3. The waltz (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*

Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud

no. 1. Le cœur volé (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
no. 2. L'éternité (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
no. 3. Rêve pour l'hiver (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)

Two Songs of Innocence

no. 1. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
no. 2. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS

Winter and Summer

no. 1. Winter Hubris (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
no. 2. Summer's Retort (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A clear midnight (in I was there) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
A letter (in Four Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
always, it's Spring (Text: E. E. Cummings)
Angélique (in Night Songs) (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
An Immorality (Text: Ezra Pound)
Anniversaire (in Chants d'Exil) (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
A pocket of time (Text: Elizabeth Bishop)
Autumn (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: Harry Duncan after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER ITA
Before My Door, op. 39 no. 4 (in O Florida) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
Beginning my studies (in I was there) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter (in Southern Voices) (Text: John Crowe Ransom) *
Berenice Sadie Brown (in Southern Voices) (Text: Carson McCullers) [x]*
Bermudas (Text: Andrew Marvell)
Butterflies (in Southern Voices) (Text: Archibald Randolph Ammons) [x]*
Chant du kisandji (in Chants d'Exil) (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
Come away, Death (in Songs of the Fool) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
Continual Conversation with a Silent Man, op. 39 no. 3 (in O Florida) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
Evening (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
Filling Station (in Three Ages of Woman) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Floral Decorations for Bananas, op. 39 no. 1 (in O Florida) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
Giant snail (in Rain Forest) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Giant Toad (in Rain Forest) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Go and catch a falling star (Text: John Donne) ITA
Gubbinal, op. 39 no. 2 (in O Florida) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
How the Waters closed (in Four Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
If music be the food of love (in Sonnets and Soliloquies) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Insomnia (in Three Ages of Woman) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
In the wand of the wind (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: John Fandel) *
Investiture at Cecconi's (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
I was there (in I was there) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Jabberwocky (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll)
Jean qui rit (Text: Tennessee Williams) *
Joy, shipmate, joy! (in I was there) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
Lady of the harbor (in Three Women) (Text: Emma Lazarus)
Le cœur volé (in Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
L'éternité (in Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
Lied der Liebe (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin)
Litanie XXIII (Text: John Donne)
Love love today (Text: Charlotte Mew)
Lucioles (in Chants d'Exil) (Text: Marcel Osterrieth) [x]*
Lullaby (in Southern Voices) (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
Manners (in Three Ages of Woman) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Millennium Approaches (in The Life of the Bee) (Text: Jeffery Beam)
Miss Alma Calls (in Three Women) (Text: Tennessee Williams) [x]*
Night (in Night Songs) (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
O captain! My captain! (in I was there) (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
O Florida, op. 39 no. 5 (in O Florida) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
O mistress mine (in Songs of the Fool) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
O star (Text: John Fandel) [x]*
Pierrot (in Night Songs) (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
Portia's Plea (in Sonnets and Soliloquies) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE POL SPA
Rêve pour l'hiver (in Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
Sandpiper (in Rain Forest) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
She tells her love while half asleep (Text: Robert Graves) *
Sonnet 116 (in Sonnets and Soliloquies) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER GER ITA
Sonnet 128 (in Sonnets and Soliloquies) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
Strayed crab (in Rain Forest) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Summer's Retort (in Winter and Summer) (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
The darkling thrush (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
The doe (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: John Fandel) *
The dust of snow (Text: Robert Frost)
The lamb (in Two Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
The message (Text: John Donne)
The nightingale and the lark (Text: William Ball after Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev)
The Queen (in The Life of the Bee) (Text: Jeffery Beam)
There came a wind like a bugle (in Four Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (Text: Ezra Pound after Li-Tai-Po)
The serpent (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The shepherd (in Two Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT
The shining place (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
The shroud (in Night Songs) (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
The Spirit of the Hive (in The Life of the Bee) (Text: Jeffery Beam)
The Sting (in The Life of the Bee) (Text: Jeffery Beam)
The Swarm (in The Life of the Bee) (Text: Jeffery Beam)
The waltz (in Three Women) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
To an Isle in the Water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI
Twenty-eight young men (Text: Walt Whitman)
What if... (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
When that I was and a little boy (in Songs of the Fool) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
Where the music comes from (Text: Lee Hoiby) *
Wild nights (in Four Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
Winter Hubris (in Winter and Summer) (Text: Richard Castro) [x]*
Winter song (in Songs for Leontyne) (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE

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