Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Nova

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Shara Nova (b. 1974)

Shara Worden

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Carols After a Plague

no. 1. Urgency *
no. 2. Tone-Policing (Text: Shara Nova) *
no. 3. Resolve (Text: Shara Nova) *

Dies Irae

no. 2. Oh evellere bellum (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

The Blue Hour [multi-composer]

no. 1. Prologue, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 2. Opening, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 3. A black map, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 4. A Memory, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 5. A syllable, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 6. Angelica-Balefire, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 7. Canticle, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 8. Dark, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 9. Early summer's green plums, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 10. Even if by forgetting, composed by Carolyn Forché (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 11. Firmament, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 12. 1st Refrain, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 13. Ghost swift, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 14. He told her how, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 15. Her hair, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 16. I am alone, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 17. It appears to be an elegy, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 18. J'ai rêvé, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 19. Keeping a record, composed by Carolyn Forché (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 20. Library lilac, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 21. My dear, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 22. Nevertheless, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 23. Oil soap, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 24. Older than clocks, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 25. Poppy seed, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 26. She heard no one's footsteps, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 27. Tendril, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 28. 2nd Refrain, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 29. The ganglia, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 30. The hole, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 31. The name, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 32. The silence, composed by Angélica Negrón (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 33. Twirling, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 34. Vesture, vigil, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 35. We are as paper, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 36. Yet the women, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 37. You are the ghost, composed by Shara Nova (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 38. Zero, composed by Rachel Grimes (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
no. 39. 3rd Refrain, composed by Caroline Shaw (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]

The Colorado

no. 1. An Unknown Distance Yet to Run8 voices, cello and electronics (Text: John Wesley Powell) [x]
no. 2. Welcome to the Anthropocene

Winter Hymns

no. 3. The Last Light (Text: Shara Nova) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

An Unknown Distance Yet to Run8 voices, cello and electronics (in The Colorado) (Text: John Wesley Powell) [x]
Blind to the Illness (Text: Shara Nova) *
Communion With You and Yours (Text: Shara Nova)
Ghost swift (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
I Have Never Loved Someone (Text: Shara Nova) *
It appears to be an elegy (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
Let Freedom Ring (Text: Shara Nova) *
Library lilac (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
Nevertheless (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
Oh evellere bellum (in Dies Irae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Prologue (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
Resolve (in Carols After a Plague) (Text: Shara Nova) *
Santa Ageda (Text: Shara Nova) *
She, Him, Her, They (Text: Shara Nova) *
The House of Belonging (Text: David Whyte) *
The Last Light (in Winter Hymns) (Text: Shara Nova) *
Tone-Policing (in Carols After a Plague) (Text: Shara Nova) *
Two Lovers (Text: Andrew Ondrejcak) *
Urgency (in Carols After a Plague) *
We are as paper (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]
Welcome to the Anthropocene (in The Colorado)
When I Said Let a Change Come (Text: Shara Nova) *
You are the ghost (in The Blue Hour) (Text: Carolyn Forché) [x]

Last update: 2026-05-05 23:59:01