Composer: Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987)

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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See Opus Order

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
• no. ?. Dominic Has a Doll (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. ?. Uncles (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• no. ?. maggy and milly and molly and may (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. ?. 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
• no. ?. The snow man (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. ?. 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) GER
• Spring Cantata, op. 94
• no. ?. 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) 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)
• 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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