Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Perle

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George Perle (1915 - 2009)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus

no. 1. Sonnet #1 (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
no. 2. Sonnet #9 (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER
no. 3. Sonnet #5 (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
no. 4. Sonnet #19 (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE

Thirteen Dickinson Songs

no. 1. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 2. I like to see it lap the miles (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. 3. I know some lonely houses off the road (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 4. There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
no. 5. Beauty be not caused - it is (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
no. 6. The wind tapped like a tired man (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 7. These are the days when birds come back (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. 8. The heart asks pleasure first (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
no. 9. What if I say I shall not wait (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 10. If I'm lost - now (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 11. The loneliness one dare not sound (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 12. Under the Light, yet under (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 13. She bore it till the simple veins (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

Two Rilke Songs

no. 1. Du meine heilige Einsamkeit (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ITA
no. 2. Der Bach hat leise Melodien (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Beauty be not caused - it is (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER ITA
Der Bach hat leise Melodien (in Two Rilke Songs) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Du meine heilige Einsamkeit (in Two Rilke Songs) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ITA
If I'm lost - now (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
I know some lonely houses off the road (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
I like to see it lap the miles (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
She bore it till the simple veins (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Sonnet #19 (in Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
Sonnet #1 (in Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
Sonnet #5 (in Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
Sonnet #9 (in Songs of Praise and Lamentation: Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Margaret Dows Herter Norton after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE GER
The heart asks pleasure first (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER
The loneliness one dare not sound (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
There came a wind like a bugle (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
These are the days when birds come back (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
The wind tapped like a tired man (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
Under the Light, yet under (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
What if I say I shall not wait (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)

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