Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Hovhaness

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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 GER 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 Opus order

• Fog (Text: Carl Sandburg) GER
• Layla (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Live in the Sun (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• Rubáiyát (Text: Edward Fitzgerald) [x]

• op. 5. 3 Odes of Solomon
  • 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)
• op. 7. How I adore thee GER
• op. 19. Angelic Song [x]
• op. 24.
  • no. 1. Yar Nazani (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
  • no. 2. Vaspooragan (Text: Hamastegh) [x]*
• op. 29. Layla (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami) [x]
• op. 31. 2 Shakespeare Sonnets
  • 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 GER ITA RUS
• op. 32.
  • no. 1. Starlight of Noon (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
  • no. 2. O World (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• op. 33. Love Songs of Hafiz
  • 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) *
• op. 34. Christmas Song (Text: John Bowring, Sir)
• op. 56.
  • no. 4. Hercules (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*
• op. 74. 4 Songs
  • 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]*
• op. 84. 2 Songs
  • no. 1. Black Pool of Cat (Text: Jean Harper) *
  • no. 2. Innisfallen (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• op. 95. 3 Songs
  • 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]*
• op. 126. The stars (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
• op. 139. O Lady Moon (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• op. 141. Anabasis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER GER LAT
• op. 153. Dawn at Laona
  • 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) *
• op. 156. The moon has a face (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• op. 238. 4 Songs
  • no. 1. Gurge Dikran [x]
  • no. 2. Gantznin Orern (Text: Hovhannes Tumanyan ) [x]
  • no. 3. Dulhey, Dulhey [x]
  • no. 4. Old Dome of Ararat (Text: Alan Hovhaness after Avetik Sahak Isahakyan) [x]*
• op. 239. The Flute Player of the Armenian Mountains
  • 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]*
• op. 242. 4 Songs
  • no. 1. Distant Lake of Sighs (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
  • no. 2. Under a Byzantine Dome (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
  • no. 3. In early dawn time (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
  • no. 4. From high Armenia mountains (Text: Alan Hovhaness) *
• op. 243. Saturn
  • 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]*
• op. 258. Three Madrigals
  • 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)
• op. 273. Symphony no. 24, "Majnun"
  • 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)
• op. 274. 3 Sasa Songs
  • no. 1. Where's my Cat? [x]
  • no. 2. Melancholy Cat [x]
  • no. 3. Sasa's Tarantella [x]
• op. 370. Love's Philosophy (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• op. 391. The Spirit's Map (3 songs to poems by Jean Harper)
  • no. 1. Distant Age (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
  • no. 2. The Day (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
  • no. 3. Their Ways (Text: Jean Harper) [x]*
• op. 400. A friendly mountain (Text: Alan Hovhaness) [x]*

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