Composer: Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)

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Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• 2 Shakespeare Sonnets, op. 31
• no. 1. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
• no. 2. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
• 2 Songs, op. 84
• no. 1. Black Pool of Cat (Text: Jean Harper) *
• no. 2. Innisfallen (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• 3 Odes of Solomon, op. 5
• no. 1. No way is hard (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 2. As the work of the husbandman (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 3. As the wings of doves (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• 3 Sasa Songs, op. 274
• no. 1. Where's my Cat? [x]
• no. 2. Melancholy Cat [x]
• no. 3. Sasa's Tarantella [x]
• 3 Songs, op. 95
• no. 1. Describe me (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• no. 2. Green stones (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• no. 3. Fans of blue (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• 4 Songs, op. 74
• no. 1. Pagan Saint (Text: Consuelo Cloos) *
• no. 2. Lullaby of the Lake (Text: Consuelo Cloos) *
• no. 3. I heard thee singing (Text: Consuelo Cloos) [x]*
• no. 4. Raven River (Text: Consuelo Cloos) [x]*
• Dawn at Laona, op. 153
• no. 1. Prelude (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 2. Vision of Dark Places (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 3. The hosts flew white (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 4. Motionless breath (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Love Songs of Hafiz, op. 33
• no. 1. Hafiz, like Lord Krishna, darting (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 2. Hafiz is a Merry Old Thief (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 3. O flowing of my tears (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 4. Hafiz wanders, weeping (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 5. Day of Hafiz' vision (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 6. O Love, hear my cry (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 7. Where is my Beloved? (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• no. 8. Love for the soul (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Saturn, op. 243
• no. 1. Prelude (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 2. Titan, moon of Saturn (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 3. Orb mysterious (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 4. Saturn, celestial globe (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 5. O lost note (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 6. My hymn (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 7. Giant globe (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 8. Vision of Saturn (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 9. On wings of a soundless note (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 10. What is universe? (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 11. Intermezzo (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• no. 12. Harp of Saturn (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Symphony no. 24, "Majnun", op. 273
• no. 1. Majnun
• no. 2. Letters in the sand (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• no. 3. The distracted lover (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• no. 4. The sword-wind
• no. 5. Majnun answered (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• no. 6. The beloved
• no. 7. The celestial beloved
• no. 8. Majnun's love song (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• no. 9. The mysterious beloved (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains, op. 239
• no. 1. Kurd Isakin (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• no. 2. Lalezar (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• no. 3. Nashkhoonag (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• no. 4. Sirds e numan mer haireni lerrneroon (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• no. 5. Akh, hoor e, hoor e, sirdus (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• The Spirit's Map (3 songs to poems by Jean Harper), op. 391
• no. 1. Distant Age (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• no. 2. The Day (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• no. 3. Their Ways (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Three Madrigals, op. 258
• no. 1. The Pencil of the Holy Ghost (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 2. My sorrow is my love (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. They all laugh (Text: Anonymous)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ([No title]), op. 31 no. 1 (in 2 Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ([No title]), op. 31 no. 2 (in 2 Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
• A friendly mountain, op. 400 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Akh, hoor e, hoor e, sirdus, op. 239 no. 5 (in The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains) (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• Anabasis, op. 141 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER GER LAT
• Angelic Song, op. 19 [x]
• As the wings of doves, op. 5 no. 3 (in 3 Odes of Solomon) (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• As the work of the husbandman, op. 5 no. 2 (in 3 Odes of Solomon) (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Black Pool of Cat, op. 84 no. 1 (in 2 Songs) (Text: Jean Harper) *
• Christmas Song, op. 34 (Text: John Bowring, Sir)
• Day of Hafiz' vision, op. 33 no. 5 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Describe me, op. 95 no. 1 (in 3 Songs) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Distant Age, op. 391 no. 1 (in The Spirit's Map (3 songs to poems by Jean Harper)) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Distant Lake of Sighs, op. 242 (4 Songs) no. 1 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Dulhey, Dulhey, op. 238 (4 Songs) no. 3 [x]
• Fans of blue, op. 95 no. 3 (in 3 Songs) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Fog (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• From high Armenia mountains, op. 242 (4 Songs) no. 4 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Gantznin Orern, op. 238 (4 Songs) no. 2 (Text: Hovhannes Tumanyan ) [x]
• Giant globe, op. 243 no. 7 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Green stones, op. 95 no. 2 (in 3 Songs) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Gurge Dikran, op. 238 (4 Songs) no. 1 [x]
• Hafiz is a Merry Old Thief, op. 33 no. 2 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Hafiz, like Lord Krishna, darting, op. 33 no. 1 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Hafiz wanders, weeping, op. 33 no. 4 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Harp of Saturn, op. 243 no. 12 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Hercules, op. 56 no. 4 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• How I adore thee, op. 7 GER
• I heard thee singing, op. 74 no. 3 (in 4 Songs) (Text: Consuelo Cloos) [x]*
• In early dawn time, op. 242 (4 Songs) no. 3 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Innisfallen, op. 84 no. 2 (in 2 Songs) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• Intermezzo, op. 243 no. 11 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Kurd Isakin, op. 239 no. 1 (in The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains) (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• Lalezar, op. 239 no. 2 (in The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains) (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• Layla, op. 29 (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami) [x]
• Layla (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Letters in the sand, op. 273 no. 2 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun") (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Live in the Sun (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Love for the soul, op. 33 no. 8 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Love's Philosophy, op. 370 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• Lullaby of the Lake, op. 74 no. 2 (in 4 Songs) (Text: Consuelo Cloos) *
• Majnun, op. 273 no. 1 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun")
• Majnun answered, op. 273 no. 5 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun") (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Majnun's love song, op. 273 no. 8 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun") (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Melancholy Cat, op. 274 no. 2 (in 3 Sasa Songs) [x]
• Motionless breath, op. 153 no. 4 (in Dawn at Laona) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• My hymn, op. 243 no. 6 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• My sorrow is my love, op. 258 no. 2 (in Three Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
• Nashkhoonag, op. 239 no. 3 (in The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains) (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• No way is hard, op. 5 no. 1 (in 3 Odes of Solomon) (Text: James Rendel Harris after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• O flowing of my tears, op. 33 no. 3 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• O Lady Moon, op. 139 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Old Dome of Ararat, op. 238 (4 Songs) no. 4 (Text: Alan Hovhaness after Avetik Isahakian) [x]*
• O lost note, op. 243 no. 5 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• O Love, hear my cry, op. 33 no. 6 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• On wings of a soundless note, op. 243 no. 9 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Orb mysterious, op. 243 no. 3 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Out of the Depths (Psalm CXXX -- A Song of Ascents) , op. 141 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER GER LAT
• O World, op. 32 no. 2 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• Pagan Saint, op. 74 no. 1 (in 4 Songs) (Text: Consuelo Cloos) *
• Prelude, op. 243 no. 1 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Prelude, op. 153 no. 1 (in Dawn at Laona) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Raven River, op. 74 no. 4 (in 4 Songs) (Text: Consuelo Cloos) [x]*
• Rubáiyát (Text: Edward Fitzgerald) [x]
• Sasa's Tarantella, op. 274 no. 3 (in 3 Sasa Songs) [x]
• Saturn, celestial globe, op. 243 no. 4 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Sirds e numan mer haireni lerrneroon, op. 239 no. 4 (in The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains) (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• Starlight of Noon, op. 32 no. 1 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• The beloved, op. 273 no. 6 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun")
• The celestial beloved, op. 273 no. 7 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun")
• The Day, op. 391 no. 2 (in The Spirit's Map (3 songs to poems by Jean Harper)) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• The distracted lover, op. 273 no. 3 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun") (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• The hosts flew white, op. 153 no. 3 (in Dawn at Laona) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Their Ways, op. 391 no. 3 (in The Spirit's Map (3 songs to poems by Jean Harper)) (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• The moon has a face, op. 156 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• The mysterious beloved, op. 273 no. 9 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun") (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• The Pencil of the Holy Ghost, op. 258 no. 1 (in Three Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
• The stars, op. 126 (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
• The sword-wind, op. 273 no. 4 (in Symphony no. 24, "Majnun")
• They all laugh, op. 258 no. 3 (in Three Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
• Titan, moon of Saturn, op. 243 no. 2 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Under a Byzantine Dome , op. 242 (4 Songs) no. 2 (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Vaspooragan, op. 24 no. 2 (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• Vision of Dark Places, op. 153 no. 2 (in Dawn at Laona) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Vision of Saturn, op. 243 no. 8 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• What is universe?, op. 243 no. 10 (in Saturn) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• Where is my Beloved?, op. 33 no. 7 (in Love Songs of Hafiz) (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Where's my Cat?, op. 274 no. 1 (in 3 Sasa Songs) [x]
• Yar Nazani, op. 24 no. 1 (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*

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