Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Doolittle

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Airs of Men Long Dead
• no. 1. Waiting (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]
• no. 2. Wolf (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]
• no. 3. Song (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]
• no. 4. Sycamore (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]*
• All Spring
• no. 1. five o’clock (Text: Rae Crossman) *
• Cairn
• no. 1. Quartz (Text: Dawn Wood) *
• no. 2. Fossil (Text: Dawn Wood)
• no. 3. Chalcedony (Text: Dawn Wood)
• no. 4. Old Red Sandstone (Text: Dawn Wood)
• no. 5. How a Stone Reached Heaven (Text: Dawn Wood)
• Dàn nan ròn
• no. 1. Dàn nan ròn (Text: Rody Gorman) *
• no. 2. An ainm an àigh (Text: Rody Gorman)
• no. 3. Oir a’ chuain / Air Sgeir an Ròin (Text: Rody Gorman) *
• Seal Songs
• no. 1. Ocean (Text: Rody Gorman) [x]
• Three Summer Wassails
• no. 1. Blackberry Wassail (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• no. 2. Mushroom Wassail (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• no. 3. Potato Wassail (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• Virelais
• no. 1. Song [x]
• no. 2. Breake of Day (Text: John Donne)
• no. 3. Batter My Heart (Text: John Donne) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• An ainm an àigh (in Dàn nan ròn) (Text: Rody Gorman)
• A Short, Slow Life (Text: Elizabeth Bishop)
• Batter My Heart (in Virelais) (Text: John Donne) [x]
• Blackberry Wassail (in Three Summer Wassails) (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• Breake of Day (in Virelais) (Text: John Donne)
• Burn (Text: Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno) [x]*
• Chalcedony (in Cairn) (Text: Dawn Wood)
• Dàn nan ròn (in Dàn nan ròn) (Text: Rody Gorman) *
• five o’clock (in All Spring) (Text: Rae Crossman) *
• Fossil (in Cairn) (Text: Dawn Wood)
• How a Stone Reached Heaven (in Cairn) (Text: Dawn Wood)
• Mushroom Wassail (in Three Summer Wassails) (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• Ocean (in Seal Songs) (Text: Rody Gorman) [x]
• Oir a’ chuain / Air Sgeir an Ròin (in Dàn nan ròn) (Text: Rody Gorman) *
• Old Red Sandstone (in Cairn) (Text: Dawn Wood)
• Potato Wassail (in Three Summer Wassails) (Text: Forrest Pierce) *
• Quartz (in Cairn) (Text: Dawn Wood) *
• Ruby-Throated Moment (Text: Rae Crossman) *
• Social sounds from whales at night
• Song (in Airs of Men Long Dead) (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]
• Song (in Virelais) [x]
• Sycamore (in Airs of Men Long Dead) (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]*
• The Wise Daughter [x]
• The Wren-King (Text: Anonymous)
• Waiting (in Airs of Men Long Dead) (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]
• Why the parrot repeats human words [x]
• Wolf (in Airs of Men Long Dead) (Text: Forrest Pierce) [x]

Last update: 2026-09-01 01:44:26