Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by V. Persichetti

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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 Opus order

• Brigid's Song (Text: James Joyce)
• If the green (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• In Just- (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Jimmie's got a goil (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• maggy and milly and molly and may (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• nouns to nouns (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]
• Sam was a man (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• The microbe (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Thou child so wise (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Uncles (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
• Unquiet heart (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL

• op. 46.
  • no. 1. This is the garden (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • no. 2. Hist Whist (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• op. 50. Harmonium
  • no. ?. The snow man (Text: Wallace Stevens)
  • no. ?. Gubbinal (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• op. 68. Hymns and Responses
  • no. 3. Robin (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
  • no. 5. Star (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
  • no. 19. The heart can push the sea and land (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • no. 25. Prayer for this house (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
• op. 72. Sara Teasdale Songs
  • no. 1. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE GER
• op. 74.
  • no. 3. Noise of Waters (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
• op. 76. Robert Frost Songs
  • no. 1. Dust of snow (Text: Robert Frost)
  • no. 2. The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)
• op. 77. Emily Dickinson Songs
  • 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)
• op. 94. Spring is like a perhaps hand (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• op. 98. Dominic Has a Doll (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• op. 103. Celebrations: Cantata no. 3
  • 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
• op. 107. The Pleiades (Text: Walt Whitman)
• op. 129. Glad and Very
  • 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]*

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