Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Lim

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 3 Angels + an enigma
• no. 1. An enigma
• no. 2. Angel of Wounds and Blessings (Text: Hélène Cixous) *
• no. 3. Angel of Otherness (Text: Hélène Cixous) *
• no. 4. Angel of Lamentation (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Atlas of the Sky [opera]
• no. 1. Crowd of the dead (Text: Eliot Weinberger) *
• no. 2. Military crowds (the orchestra,
• no. 3. Surveillance
• no. 4. Protest [x]
• no. 5. Crowds of the living (Text: Bonnie S. McDougall; Chen Maiping after Zhao Zhenkai) ⊗*
• no. 6. Communion between the living and the dead (Text: Bonnie S. McDougall; Chen Maiping after Zhao Zhenkai) ⊗*
• Ceremony of the Seasons
• no. 2. The Quickening (Text: Yang Lian) [x]* ENG
• Mother Tongue
• no. 1. Century, the Continuance (Text: Patricia Sykes) *
• no. 2. latitude of gain (Text: Patricia Sykes) *
• Tongue of the Invisible
• no. 1. At dawn I heard the tongue of the invisible (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• no. 2. Between the pages of the world (I)
• no. 3. This door is the mouth of love (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• no. 4. Between the pages of the world (II) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• no. 5. The roots of the world are entwined in the wind
• no. 6. Between the pages of the world (III)
• no. 7. Encircling its towers with a silver coronet of song (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• no. 8. Our embraces are a banquet of revolving time (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• An enigma (in 3 Angels + an enigma)
• Angel of Lamentation (in 3 Angels + an enigma) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Angel of Otherness (in 3 Angels + an enigma) (Text: Hélène Cixous) *
• Angel of Wounds and Blessings (in 3 Angels + an enigma) (Text: Hélène Cixous) *
• At dawn I heard the tongue of the invisible (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• Between the pages of the world (I) (in Tongue of the Invisible)
• Between the pages of the world (II) (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• Between the pages of the world (III) (in Tongue of the Invisible)
• Century, the Continuance (in Mother Tongue) (Text: Patricia Sykes) *
• Chang-O (Text: Li Shangyin) [x]
• Communion between the living and the dead (in Atlas of the Sky) (Text: Bonnie S. McDougall; Chen Maiping after Zhao Zhenkai) ⊗*
• Crowd of the dead (in Atlas of the Sky) (Text: Eliot Weinberger) *
• Crowds of the living (in Atlas of the Sky) (Text: Bonnie S. McDougall; Chen Maiping after Zhao Zhenkai) ⊗*
• Encircling its towers with a silver coronet of song (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• latitude of gain (in Mother Tongue) (Text: Patricia Sykes) *
• Military crowds (the orchestra, (in Atlas of the Sky)
• Our embraces are a banquet of revolving time (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• Protest (in Atlas of the Sky) [x]
• Surveillance (in Atlas of the Sky)
• the army, the hunting pack) (in Atlas of the Sky)
• The Quickening (in Ceremony of the Seasons) (Text: Yang Lian) [x]* ENG
• The roots of the world are entwined in the wind (in Tongue of the Invisible)
• This door is the mouth of love (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗*
• Voodoo Child (Text: Constantine Athanasius Trypanis after Sappho) * FRE FRE FRE GER GER

Last update: 2026-03-05 03:05:45