Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Homer

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Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953)

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Bandanna Ballads, op. 22

no. 1. Mammy's Lullaby (Text: Maria Howard Weeden)
no. 2. Uncle Rome (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 3. A Plantation Hymn (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 4. A Banjo Song (Text: Maria Howard Weeden)
no. 5. Two Lovers and Lizette (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]

Eight Poems by Tennyson

Enid's song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI

Six Cheerful Songs to Poems of American Humor, op. 37

no. 1. Späcially Jim (Text: Bessie Morgan) [x]
no. 2. An Idaho Ball [x]
no. 3. Casey at the Bat (Text: Ernest Lawrence Thayer , as Phin)
no. 4. A Plantation Ditty (Text: Frank Lebby Stanton)
no. 5. The Height of the Ridiculous (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
no. 6. Christmas Chimes [x]

Six Songs from "Underwoods", op. 15

no. 1. Sing me a song of a lad that is gone (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) HUN
no. 2. Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
no. 3. The unforgotten (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 4. The stormy evening (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
no. 5. The Country of the Camisards (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 6. Evensong (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)

Six Songs of the Old South, op. 27

no. 1. Way down South (Text: Maria Howard Weeden)
no. 2. The Song of the Watcher (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 3. When the Angels Call (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 4. Long Ago (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 5. At Last (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]
no. 6. Old Watt and the Rabbits (Text: Maria Howard Weeden) [x]

Songs from Mother Goose, op. 36

The house that Jack built (Text: Volkslieder , as Folk songs)

The Widow in the Bye Street

no. 1. Down Bye Street (Text: John Masefield)
no. 2. The Widow's Prayer (Text: John Masefield) [x]
no. 3. The Widow's Song (Text: John Masefield) [x]

Three Songs from the Slums

no. 1. Snowy morning (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]
no. 2. Spring night (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]
no. 3. Little sister (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]

Vier Alt-Slavische Gedichte, op. 5

no. 1. Der Kosak (Text: Josef Wenzig after Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 2. Der verlorene Schäfer (Text: Josef Wenzig after Volkslieder )
no. 3. Der Schreiber (Text: Josef Wenzig after Volkslieder )
no. 4. Der Jünglings Abschied in den Krieg (Text: Josef Wenzig after Volkslieder ) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

Down Bye Street (Text: John Masefield)
Enid's song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI
Little sister (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]
Snowy morning (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]
Spring night (Text: Toyohiko Kagawa) [x]
The Widow's Prayer (Text: John Masefield) [x]
The Widow's Song (Text: John Masefield) [x]

op. 3. Trost der Nacht (Text: Karl Johann Philipp Spitta)
op. 5. Vier Alt-Slavische Gedichte
op. 6. Eight Poems by Tennyson
op. 7.
op. 8. Eight Poems by Tennyson
op. 9. Enid's Song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
op. 10. Three Poems of Thomas Hood
op. 11. Two Songs
op. 12. Three Poems of Browning
op. 13. The poor man's song [x]
op. 14. The last leaf (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
op. 15. Six Songs from "Underwoods"
op. 16. Three songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses"
op. 17. Four Songs
op. 18. Three Songs
op. 19. Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"
- Heft 1
  - no. 1. Eight o'clock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 2. Baby cry -- oh fie! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 3. Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 4. Love me, -- I love you (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 5. Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 6. Boats sail on the rivers (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 7. In the meadow -- what in the meadow? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 8. The dog lies in his kennel (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 9. Lie a-bed, sleepy head (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 10. Mix a pancake, stir a pancake (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Heft 2
  - no. 1. Who has seen the wind? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 2. Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 3. A pocket handkerchief to hem (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 4. A motherless soft lambkin (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 5. Lullaby, o lullaby! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 6. Hurt no living thing (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  - no. 7. Minnie and Mattie and fat little May (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
op. 20. The fiddler of Dooney (Text: William Butler Yeats)
op. 21. Two songs
op. 22. Bandanna Ballads
op. 23. Two songs
op. 24. Dearest (Text: William Ernest Henley)
op. 25. The song of the shirt (Text: Thomas Hood) GER
op. 26. Two "Songs of Experience"
op. 27. Six Songs of the Old South
op. 28. Sing to me, sing (Text: William Ernest Henley)
op. 29. Babylon the Great (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
op. 31. Sheep and Lambs (Text: Katharine Tynan) WEL
op. 32. The Battle of Blenheim (Text: Robert Southey)
op. 33. Three Scotch Poems
op. 34. Four Modern Poems
op. 35. Homeland (Text: Sidney Homer)
op. 36. The house that Jack built (Text: Volkslieder , as Folk songs)
op. 37. Six Cheerful Songs to Poems of American Humor
op. 38. General Booth enters into Heaven (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
op. 42. The Everlasting Mercy (Text: John Masefield)
op. 43. The Lay of the Laborer (Text: Thomas Hood)

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