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
- no. 1. Crowd of the dead (Text: Eliot Weinberger)
- no. 2. Military crowds (the orchestra, [x]
- no. 3. Surveillance [x]
- no. 4. Protest [x]
- no. 5. Crowds of the living (Text: Bonnie S. McDougall after Bei Dao) ⊗
- no. 6. and the dead (Text: Chen Maiping after Bei Dao) ⊗
- Ceremony of the Seasons
- no. 2. The Quickening (Text: Brian Holton after Yang Lian) ⊗
- Mother Tongue
- no. 1. Century, the Continuance (Text: Patricia Sykes)
- no. 2. latitude of gain (Text: Patricia Sykes)
- Tongue of the Invisible
- no. 2. Between the pages of the world [x]
- no. 3. This door is the mouth of love (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗
- no. 4. Between the pages of the world (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗
- no. 5. The roots of the world are entwined in the wind [x]
- no. 6. Between the pages of the world [x]
- 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
- and the dead (in Atlas of the Sky) (Text: Chen Maiping after Bei Dao) ⊗
- 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)
- Between the pages of the world (in Tongue of the Invisible) (Text: Jonathan Holmes after Hafis) ⊗
- Between the pages of the world (in Tongue of the Invisible) [x]
- Between the pages of the world (in Tongue of the Invisible) [x]
- Century, the Continuance (in Mother Tongue) (Text: Patricia Sykes)
- Chang-O (Text: Li Shangyin) [x]
- Communion between the living (in Atlas of the Sky) (Text: Chen Maiping after Bei Dao) ⊗
- 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 after Bei Dao) ⊗
- 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) [x]
- 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) [x]
- the army, the hunting pack) (in Atlas of the Sky) [x]
- The Quickening (in Ceremony of the Seasons) (Text: Brian Holton after Yang Lian) ⊗
- The roots of the world are entwined in the wind (in Tongue of the Invisible) [x]
- 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: 2026-02-14 22:14:44