Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Houghton
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- De la Noche
- no. 1. Preludio (Text: Federico García Lorca)
- no. 4. Las Seis Cuerdas (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG
- no. 7. Meditación Primera (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG
- Five Songs on Poems of James Wright
- no. 1. A Breath of Air (Text: James Wright)
- no. 2. The Trouble with You (Text: James Wright)
- no. 3. Neruda (Text: James Wright)
- no. 4. To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain (Text: James Wright)
- no. 5. To a Troubled Friend (Text: James Wright)
- Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin
- no. 1. Alma Redemptoris Mater (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG ENG FIN
- no. 2. Ave Regina coelorum (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
- no. 3. Regina coeli laetere (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER SPA
- no. 4. Salve Regina (Text: Anonymous) DUT ENG FRE FRE GER GER
- In Singing Weather
- no. 1. Andantino (Text: Maggie Anderson) *
- Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes
- no. 1. I, Too (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
- no. 2. Passing Love (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 3. Ballad of the Gypsy (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 3. Birth (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
- no. 5. If-ing (Text: Langston Hughes)
- no. 6. Abe Lincoln (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Talismans I-IV
- no. 2. My fingers linger on textures (Text: Linda Robiner Goodman) [x]
- Three Songs on Poems of Walt Whitman
- no. 2. NOT heat flames up and consumes (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 3. I DREAM’D in a dream (Text: Walt Whitman)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- Abe Lincoln (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- A Breath of Air (in Five Songs on Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright)
- Alma Redemptoris Mater (in Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG ENG FIN
- Andantino (in In Singing Weather) (Text: Maggie Anderson) *
- Anymore [x]
- Ave Regina coelorum (in Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
- Ballad of the Gypsy (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Birth (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
- Defenceless under the night (Text: W. H. Auden)
- Fireflies [x]
- I DREAM’D in a dream (in Three Songs on Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- If-ing (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- I, Too (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
- Las Seis Cuerdas (in De la Noche) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG
- Meditación Primera (in De la Noche) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG
- Moms of Silicon Valley
- My fingers linger on textures (in Talismans I-IV) (Text: Linda Robiner Goodman) [x]
- Neruda (in Five Songs on Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright)
- NOT heat flames up and consumes (in Three Songs on Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Not So Long Ago [x]
- O YOU whom I often and silently come (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Passing Love (in Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
- Preludio (in De la Noche) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
- Regina coeli laetere (in Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER SPA
- Salve Regina (in Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin) (Text: Anonymous) DUT ENG FRE FRE GER GER
- Te lucis ante terminum (Text: Anonymous) ENG
- The Trouble with You (in Five Songs on Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright)
- To a Troubled Friend (in Five Songs on Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright)
- To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain (in Five Songs on Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright)
- Whalefall (Text: Elizabeth Bradfield)
- Why the Sky is Blue
Last update: 2026-02-01 18:13:46