Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by V. Persichetti

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Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Celebrations: Cantata no. 3, op. 103

no. 1. Stranger (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. I celebrate myself (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. You who celebrate bygones (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. There is that in me (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 5. Sing me the Universal (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 6. Flaunt out, o sea (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 7. I sing the Body electric (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 8. A clear midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
no. 9. Voyage (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE

Emily Dickinson Songs, op. 77

no. 1. Out of the morning (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. 2. I'm nobody (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
no. 3. When the hills do (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
no. 4. The grass (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Four Cummings Choruses

Dominic Has a Doll (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Uncles (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
maggy and milly and molly and may (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
nouns to nouns (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*

Glad and Very, op. 129

no. 1. little man (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 2. I am so glad and very (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 3. maybe god (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
no. 4. Jake hates all the girls (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
no. 5. A politician (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*

Harmonium, op. 50

The snow man (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)

Hilaire Belloc Songs

no. 1. Thou child so wise (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 2. The microbe (Text: Hilaire Belloc)

James Joyce Songs

no. 1. Unquiet heart (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
no. 2. Brigid's Song (Text: James Joyce)
no. 3. Noise of Waters (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI

Robert Frost Songs, op. 76

no. 1. Dust of snow (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 2. The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)

Sara Teasdale Songs, op. 72

no. 1. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER

Spring Cantata, op. 94

Spring is like a perhaps hand (Text: E. E. Cummings) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A clear midnight, op. 103 no. 8 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
A politician, op. 129 no. 5 (in Glad and Very) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Brigid's Song (in James Joyce Songs) (Text: James Joyce)
Dominic Has a Doll, op. 98 (in Four Cummings Choruses) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Dust of snow, op. 76 no. 1 (in Robert Frost Songs) (Text: Robert Frost)
Flaunt out, o sea, op. 103 no. 6 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Gubbinal, op. 50 no. ? (in Harmonium) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Hist Whist, op. 46 no. 2 (Text: E. E. Cummings)
I am so glad and very, op. 129 no. 2 (in Glad and Very) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
I celebrate myself, op. 103 no. 2 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
If the green (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
I'm nobody, op. 77 no. 2 (in Emily Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
In Just- (Text: E. E. Cummings)
I sing the Body electric, op. 103 no. 7 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Jake hates all the girls, op. 129 no. 4 (in Glad and Very) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Jimmie's got a goil (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Let it be forgotten, op. 72 no. 1 (in Sara Teasdale Songs) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
little man, op. 129 no. 1 (in Glad and Very) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
maggy and milly and molly and may (in Four Cummings Choruses) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
maybe god, op. 129 no. 3 (in Glad and Very) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Noise of Waters, op. 74 no. 3 (in James Joyce Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
nouns to nouns (in Four Cummings Choruses) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Now in the tomb is laid (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) [x]
O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Our Father, whose creative Will (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
Out of the morning, op. 77 no. 1 (in Emily Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Prayer for this house, op. 68 (Hymns and Responses) no. 25 (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
Robin, op. 68 (Hymns and Responses) no. 3 (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
Sam was a man (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Sing me the Universal, op. 103 no. 5 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Spring is like a perhaps hand, op. 94 (in Spring Cantata) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Star, op. 68 (Hymns and Responses) no. 5 (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Stranger, op. 103 no. 1 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The grass, op. 77 no. 4 (in Emily Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The heart can push the sea and land, op. 68 (Hymns and Responses) no. 19 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
All I could see from where I stood, op. 68 (Hymns and Responses) no. 19 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The microbe (in Hilaire Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The pasture, op. 76 no. 2 (in Robert Frost Songs) (Text: Robert Frost)
The Pleiades, op. 107 (Text: Walt Whitman)
There is that in me, op. 103 no. 4 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The snow man, op. 50 no. ? (in Harmonium) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
This is the garden, op. 46 no. 1 (Text: E. E. Cummings)
Thou child so wise (in Hilaire Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Uncles (in Four Cummings Choruses) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Unquiet heart (in James Joyce Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
Voyage, op. 103 no. 9 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
When the hills do, op. 77 no. 3 (in Emily Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
You who celebrate bygones, op. 103 no. 3 (in Celebrations: Cantata no. 3) (Text: Walt Whitman)

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