Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Herbison

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Jeraldine Saunders Herbison (b. 1941)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Five Art Songs

no. . The Rainy Day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
no. . We Met By Chance (Text: William Curtis)
no. . Love and Not Know Why [x]
no. 3. I’ll Not Forget (Text: Max Ellison)

Four Sonnets

no. 1. Night was Done (Text: Babbette Deutsch; Avrahm Yarmolinsky after Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin) *
no. 2. Time does not bring relief (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 3. If I Should Learn (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 4. There At Dawn (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Catch Down the Wind (Text: Max Ellison)
Daffodils, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 1 (Text: William Wordsworth) CHI CZE GER GER HUN POL
If I Should Learn (in Four Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
I’ll Not Forget (in Five Art Songs) (Text: Max Ellison)
Innisfree, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 2 (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE HUN ITA
Life, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 3 (Text: Langston Hughes)
Love and Not Know Why (in Five Art Songs) [x]
Night was Done (in Four Sonnets) (Text: Babbette Deutsch; Avrahm Yarmolinsky after Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin) *
Silver Rain, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 4 (Text: Langston Hughes)
The Noise of Waters, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 5 (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
The Rainy Day (in Five Art Songs) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
There At Dawn (in Four Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) [x]
Time does not bring relief (in Four Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
We Met By Chance (in Five Art Songs) (Text: William Curtis)
Without You, op. 29 (Six Songs) no. 6 (Text: Jeraldine Saunders Herbison) [x]

Last update: 2026-01-26 18:22:27