Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by K. Mechem

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• American Madrigals: Madrigal Cycle on American Folks Songs, op. 46
• no. ?. Kansas boys (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 1. Kind miss (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. He's gone away (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 4. Adam's Bride (A marriage lesson) (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 5. New York girls (Text: Volkslieder )
• Five Centuries of Spring, op. 24
• no. 1. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• no. 2. From you have I been absent (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
• no. 3. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
• no. 4. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 5. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Four Songs for Baritone, op. 10
• no. 1. The green-blooded fish (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
• no. 2. July rain (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
• no. 3. Inferiority complex (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
• no. 4. A farewell (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
• From the Heartland
• no. 1. Dust (Recitative and aria) (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• no. 2. Shadows of the moon (Elegy) (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• no. 3. I could hear the least bird sing (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• no. 4. Declaration (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• Goodbye, Farewell, and Adieu: Three Songs of Parting, op. 33
• no. 1. Since there's no help (Text: Michael Drayton) GER
• no. 2. Parting, without a sequel (Text: John Crowe Ransom) [x]*
• no. 3. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• The Winds of May
• no. 1. The tune (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
• no. 2. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• no. 3. Over the roofs (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 4. I shall not care (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• no. 5. Song (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• To an Absent Love, op. 58
• no. 1. Dear Husband (Text: Harriet Newby)
• no. 2. A farewell (Text: Harriet Monroe)
• no. 3. Fair Robin I Love (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 4. Epilogue ("Debts") (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

• Declaration (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• Dust (Recitative and aria) (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• I could hear the least bird sing (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• I shall not care (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• Over the roofs (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Shadows of the moon (Elegy) (Text: Kirke Field Mechem) *
• Song (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• The tune (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE

• op. 10. Four Songs for Baritone
  • no. 1. The green-blooded fish (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
  • no. 2. July rain (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
  • no. 3. Inferiority complex (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
  • no. 4. A farewell (Text: Kirke Mechem) *
• op. 24. Five Centuries of Spring
  • no. 1. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
  • no. 2. From you have I been absent (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
  • no. 3. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
  • no. 4. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • no. 5. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• op. 33. Goodbye, Farewell, and Adieu: Three Songs of Parting
  • no. 1. Since there's no help (Text: Michael Drayton) GER
  • no. 2. Parting, without a sequel (Text: John Crowe Ransom) [x]*
  • no. 3. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• op. 35.
  • no. 1. Christmas Carol (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• op. 46. Kansas boys (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 1. Kind miss (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. He's gone away (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 4. Adam's Bride (A marriage lesson) (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 5. New York girls (Text: Volkslieder )
• op. 58. To an Absent Love
  • no. 1. Dear Husband (Text: Harriet Newby)
  • no. 2. A farewell (Text: Harriet Monroe)
  • no. 3. Fair Robin I Love (Text: John Dryden)
  • no. 4. Epilogue ("Debts") (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)

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