Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Asia

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Adrift on Blinding Light
• no. 1. Rama's Dream (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 2. The Voice is Not the Word (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 3. If I Have Grown Hawk-like (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 4. On A Good Day (Text: Paul Pines) *
• An E. E. Cummings Songbook
• no. 1. quick i the death (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 2. luminous tendril (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 3. hair your a brook (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 4. three wealthy sisters (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 5. feather rain (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 6. I'am asking (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 7. when faces called flowers (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. 8. if a cheerfulest (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 9. swooning (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 10. this (let’s remember) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 11. dying is fine (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 12. blossoming are people (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 13. two old (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 14. if the (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. 15. the great advantage of (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• Breath in a Ram's Horn
• no. 1. What do we know (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 2. Old medals, prayer shawls (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 3. Job longed for the grave (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 4. Yom Kippur (Text: Paul Pines) *
• no. 5. My father's name was (Text: Paul Pines) *
• Divine Madness
• The idea is to throw out a net of words (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Citizen Tom Paine (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Leonard Bernstein (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Meanwhile (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• But shall we leave it here (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• I who have spoken the world (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Ossabaw Island Dream
• To say I’ve come back from the dead (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• As a child my dreams (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Think of yourself as an idea (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• There are details I’ve loved so much (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• How the rain comes—insistent and slow (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Pines Songs
• no. 1. White pillars (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 2. I’ll never understand (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 3. A little girl (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 4. Dear Frank (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 5. I walk out to the end (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Songs from the Page of Swords
• no. 1. Glyph/The Messenger (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 2. My Egyptian Sister (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 3. Mein Bruder (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 4. Reincarnation (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 5. New Years, 1979, Ending the Decade (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• no. 6. Glyph/The Message (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A little girl (in Pines Songs) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• As a child my dreams (in Ossabaw Island Dream) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• blossoming are people (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• But shall we leave it here (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Citizen Tom Paine (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Dear Frank (in Pines Songs) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• dying is fine (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• feather rain (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• Glyph/The Message (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Glyph/The Messenger (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• hair your a brook (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• How the rain comes—insistent and slow (in Ossabaw Island Dream) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• I'am asking (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• if a cheerfulest (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• If I Have Grown Hawk-like (in Adrift on Blinding Light) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• if the (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• I’ll never understand (in Pines Songs) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• I walk out to the end (in Pines Songs) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• I who have spoken the world (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Job longed for the grave (in Breath in a Ram's Horn) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• Leonard Bernstein (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• luminous tendril (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• Meanwhile (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Mein Bruder (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• My Egyptian Sister (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• My father's name was (in Breath in a Ram's Horn) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• New Years, 1979, Ending the Decade (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Old medals, prayer shawls (in Breath in a Ram's Horn) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• On A Good Day (in Adrift on Blinding Light) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• quick i the death (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• Rama's Dream (in Adrift on Blinding Light) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• Reincarnation (in Songs from the Page of Swords) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• swooning (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• the great advantage of (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• The idea is to throw out a net of words (in Divine Madness) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• There are details I’ve loved so much (in Ossabaw Island Dream) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• The Voice is Not the Word (in Adrift on Blinding Light) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• Think of yourself as an idea (in Ossabaw Island Dream) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• this (let’s remember) (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• three wealthy sisters (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• To say I’ve come back from the dead (in Ossabaw Island Dream) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• two old (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• What do we know (in Breath in a Ram's Horn) (Text: Paul Pines) *
• when faces called flowers (in An E. E. Cummings Songbook) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• White pillars (in Pines Songs) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
• Yom Kippur (in Breath in a Ram's Horn) (Text: Paul Pines) *

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