Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Larsen

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
• no. 1. Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 2. Liebeslied (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * CAT FRE GER ITA ITA
• no. 3. Do you know (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * CHI
• no. 4. White World (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
• no. 5. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• no. 6. Go from me (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER GER
• By a departing light (Im letzten Abendlicht, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
• no. 1. Bind me - I still can sing (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 2. In this short Life (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• no. 3. By a departing light (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• no. 4. Adrift! A little boat adrift! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Late in the day
• no. 1. The Ant and the Grasshopper (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• no. 2. Clinging (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• no. 3. Travelling (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• My Antonía
• no. 1. Landscape I -- From the Train (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 2. Antonía (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 3. Landscape II -- Winter (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 4. The Hired Girls (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 5. Landscape III -- Prairie Spring (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 6. Antonía in the Field (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• no. 7. Landscape IV -- Sunset (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
• no. 1. The merry-go-round (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
• no. 2. Lady on the balcony (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• no. 3. Spanish dancer (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Songs from Letters
• no. 1. So like your father's (1880) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• no. 2. He never misses (1880) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• no. 3. A man can love two women (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• no. 4. A working woman (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• no. 5. All I have (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• Sonnets From the Portuguese
• no. 1. I thought once how Theocritus... (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 2. My letters! (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 3. With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 4. If I leave all for thee (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 5. Oh, yes! (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• no. 6. How do I love thee? (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
• The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
• no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
• no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
• no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
• no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
• no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
• no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
• no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
• no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
• no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) ⊗*
• no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
• no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
• no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
• no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
• no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
• no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
• no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
• The Other Side of Silence
• no. 1. In Medias Res (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• no. 2. Harvest and Springtime (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• no. 3. Vanished (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• no. 4. Commonplace (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• no. 5. True Seeing (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• Three Cowboy Songs
• no. 1. Bucking bronco (Text: Belle Starr)
• no. 2. Lift me into heaven slowly (Text: Robert Creeley)
• no. 3. Billy the Kid (Text: Anonymous)
• Three Love Songs
• no. 1. Before Loving You, My Love (Text: Gustavo Escobedo after Pablo Neruda) *
• no. 2. Love, How Many Roads to Reach a Kiss (Text: Terence Clarke after Pablo Neruda) *
• no. 3. Two Happy Lovers (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) *
• Three Rilke Songs
• no. 1. From "Requiem" (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• no. 2. I am, you anxious one (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT
• no. 3. If I had grown up (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
• no. 1. Katherine of Aragon (Text: Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England)
• no. 2. Anne Boleyn (Text: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England) [x]
• no. 3. Jane Seymour (Text: Jane Seymour, Queen of England) [x]
• no. 4. Anne of Cleves (Text: Anne of Cleves, Queen of England) [x]
• no. 5. Katherine Howard (Text: Catherine Howard, Queen of England) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Adrift! A little boat adrift! (in By a departing light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• All I have (in Songs from Letters) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• A man can love two women (in Songs from Letters) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• Anne Boleyn (in Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII) (Text: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England) [x]
• Anne of Cleves (in Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII) (Text: Anne of Cleves, Queen of England) [x]
• Antonía in the Field (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Antonía (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• A working woman (in Songs from Letters) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• Before Loving You, My Love (in Three Love Songs) (Text: Gustavo Escobedo after Pablo Neruda) *
• Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• Billy the Kid (in Three Cowboy Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• Bind me - I still can sing (in By a departing light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Boy's Lips (Text: Rita Frances Dove) *
• Bucking bronco (in Three Cowboy Songs) (Text: Belle Starr)
• By a departing light (in By a departing light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• Clinging (in Late in the day) (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• Commonplace (in The Other Side of Silence) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• Donal Oge (Text: Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Do you know (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * CHI
• From "Requiem" (in Three Rilke Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Go from me (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER GER
• Harvest and Springtime (in The Other Side of Silence) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• He never misses (1880) (in Songs from Letters) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• How do I love thee? (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
• How it thrills us (Text: James Blair Leishman after Rainer Maria Rilke)
• I am, you anxious one (in Three Rilke Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) CAT
• I cried unto God (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• If I had grown up (in Three Rilke Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• If I leave all for thee (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• In Medias Res (in The Other Side of Silence) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• In this short Life (in By a departing light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
• I thought once how Theocritus... (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• Jane Seymour (in Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII) (Text: Jane Seymour, Queen of England) [x]
• Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub (Text: Thomas Matthew McGrath) *
• Katherine Howard (in Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII) (Text: Catherine Howard, Queen of England) [x]
• Katherine of Aragon (in Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII) (Text: Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England)
• Lady on the balcony (in Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Landscape I -- From the Train (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Landscape III -- Prairie Spring (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Landscape II -- Winter (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Landscape IV -- Sunset (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• Le Pont Mirabeau (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire) CHI ENG HUN HUN HUN
• Liebeslied (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * CAT FRE GER ITA ITA
• Lift me into heaven slowly (in Three Cowboy Songs) (Text: Robert Creeley)
• Love, How Many Roads to Reach a Kiss (in Three Love Songs) (Text: Terence Clarke after Pablo Neruda) *
• Lullay of the Nativity
• Music, when soft voices die (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• My letters! (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• Oh, yes! (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
• Perineo (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
• So like your father's (1880) (in Songs from Letters) (Text: Martha Jane Cannary , as also known as Calamity Jane)
• Spanish dancer (in Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• The Ant and the Grasshopper (in Late in the day) (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• The Flower (Text: George Herbert)
• The Hired Girls (in My Antonía) (Text: Willa Cather) [x]
• The merry-go-round (in Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
• The witches' trio DUT FRE FRE
• Travelling (in Late in the day) (Text: Jeanne Shepard) *
• True Seeing (in The Other Side of Silence) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• Two Happy Lovers (in Three Love Songs) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) *
• Vanished (in The Other Side of Silence) (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• White World (in Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
• With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee (in Sonnets From the Portuguese ) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER

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