Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Hoiby

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Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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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 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: A. R. 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 coeur 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 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: A. R. 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 coeur 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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