Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by F. Price

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Four Encore Songs
• no. . Tobacco (Text: Graham Lee Hemminger) [x]
• no. . Song of the Open Road (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
• no. 2. A Flea and a Fly (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• no. 3. Come, Come, Said Tom's Father (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
• Four Negro Songs
• Easy-goin' (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Delinquent (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Four Negro Songs
• A Summer Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Four Songs from The Weary Blues
• no. 3. Ardella (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 4. Dream Ships (Text: Langston Hughes)
• I Grew a Rose
• no. 1. Promise (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• no. 2. Fulfillment (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Three Short Songs
• The Crescent Moon (Text: Marion Doyle) [x]*
• The Broken Bowl (Text: Wesley Curtwright) [x]*
• Day Dawns (Text: Louise C. Wallace) [x]
• Two songs
• no. 1. Feet o' Jesus (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 2. Trouble done come my way (Text: Florence Beatrice Price)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
• A Flea and a Fly (in Four Encore Songs) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• After the 1st and 6th Commandments [x]
• After the Winter (Text: Claude Mckay)
• An American Ballad (Text: Mathew Biller) [x]
• An April Day (Text: Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.)
• An Indian Summer on the Prairie (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
• Ardella (in Four Songs from The Weary Blues) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• A Song of Living (Text: Amelia Josephine Burr)
• A Summer Night (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• A White Rose (Text: John Boyle O'Reilly)
• Because (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Beside the Sea (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Bewilderment (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Beyond the years (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Bluebell (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble)
• Bright be the Place (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) DUT FRE GER RUS
• Brown Arms (To Mother) (Text: John H. Owens)
• City Called Heaven (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Come, Come, Said Tom's Father (in Four Encore Songs) (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
• Communion Service [x]
• Dat's My Gal (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Dawns Awakening (Text: James Joseph Burke)
• Day Dawns (in Three Short Songs) (Text: Louise C. Wallace) [x]
• Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hand On Me (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Debts (Text: Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard)
• Desire (Text: Orma Jean Surbey)
• Don't Blame It on the Moonligh (Text: Sal Janeway Carroll) [x]
• Don't You Tell Me No (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) [x]
• Dreamin' town (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Dream Ships (in Four Songs from The Weary Blues) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Easy Goin' Feller (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Easy-goin' (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Every Dream (Text: Florence Beatrice Price; Sal Janeway Carroll) [x]
• Fantasy in Purple (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Feet o' Jesus (in Two songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Foggy Night (Text: Sjanna Solum) [x]
• Forever (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Free Lyrics (Text: Don Vincent Gray) [x]*
• Fulfillment (in I Grew a Rose) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• God Gives Me You (Text: Nora Connelly) *
• Go down, Moses (Text: Volkslieder )
• Ham and Eggs (Text: Carl Stephen Junge) [x]*
• hat is love (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) [x]
• Hitch up Your Belts Boys! (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) [x]
• Hold Fast to Dreams (Text: Langston Hughes)
• If I Didn’t Love You (Text: Le Roy De Gregory) [x]
• If (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• I Know That Any Weed Can Tell (Text: Louis Ginsberg)
• In Back o' the Clouds (Text: Sal Janeway Carroll) [x]
• Interim (Text: Virginia Houston)
• I Remember! (Text: Louise C. Wallace)
• I Saw a White Bird Flying (Text: John Robert Quinn)
• Judgement Day (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Just a Dream That Never Came True (Text: Frank Blaha) [x]
• Just to Be Near You (Text: Le Roy De Gregory) [x]
• Lethe (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
• Let’s Build a Little Love Nest (Text: Florence Beatrice Price; Sal Janeway Carroll) [x]*
• Let’s Give Love Another Try (Text: Le Roy De Gregory) [x]
• Life (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Little Sweetness (Text: Anna LaFoe) [x]
• Little Things (Text: James Stephens)
• Love in Mist (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble)
• Lover's lane (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Love Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Lullaby (For a Black Mother) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Monologue for the Working Class (Text: Langston Hughes)
• My dream (Text: Langston Hughes)
• My Little Dreams (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
• My little soul's goin' to shine (Text: Volkslieder )
• My neighbor (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• My November Quest (Text: Robert Frost)
• My soul's been anchored in the Lord (Text: Volkslieder )
• Nature's magic (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble) [x]
• Night (1945) (Text: Bessie Mayle) [x]
• Night (Text: Louise C. Wallace) * SPA
• Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
• Ode to Man (Text: Curtis Williford Reese) [x]
• On the Height (Text: Eunice Tietjens, née Hammond) [x]
• Out of the South Blew a Wind (Text: Fannie Carter Woods)
• Pittance (Text: Don Vincent Gray)
• Poem of Praise (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) *
• Praise the Lord (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT GER LAT
• Promise (in I Grew a Rose) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Resignation (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) *
• Resignation (Text: Florence Beatrice Price) *
• Rhapsody (Text: William Stanley Braithwaite) [x]
• Sacrament (Text: Don Vincent Gray)
• Sea Gulls [x]
• Sentimental Moonlight (Text: Leo Marzullo) [x]
• Ships that Pass in the Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Song for Snow (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) *
• Song is So Old (Text: Hermann Hagedorn)
• Song of Hope (Text: Florence Beatrice Price)
• Song of the Open Road (in Four Encore Songs) (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
• Songs to the dark virgin (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Spring Journey [x]
• Spring (Text: Florence Beatrice Price)
• Strange Borders (Text: Maud Ludington Cain) [x]
• String Stars for Pearls (Text: John Urban Nicolson) [x]
• Summer clouds (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble)
• Sunset (Text: Odessa P. Elder)
• Sympathy (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Ancient Mariner (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• The Broken Bowl (in Three Short Songs) (Text: Wesley Curtwright) [x]*
• The Crescent Moon (in Three Short Songs) (Text: Marion Doyle) [x]*
• The Daisy (Text: Arthur Guiterman) [x]
• The Dawn's Awake (Text: Otto Leland Bohanan)
• The Delinquent (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Envious Wren (Text: Phoebe Cary)
• The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
• The Heart of a Woman (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
• The Island of My Dreams (Text: Grace Linley) [x]
• The Meeting Waters (Text: Elizabeth Hussey Whittier)
• The Moon Bridge (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble)
• The New Moon [x]
• Then I found Heaven when I found you (Text: Bonnie McCallister) [x]
• The Poet and His Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• There be None (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
• The Retort (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Song is So Old (Text: Hermann Hagedorn) [x]
• The Sum (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Superstitious Ghost (Text: Arthur Guiterman) [x]
• The Washerwoman (Text: Otto Leland Bohanan)
• The Wind and the Sea (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The Witch of the Meadow (Text: Mary Rolofson Gamble)
• They Lie, They Lie (Text: David Morton) [x]
• Thou’rt My Lov’d One
• Tobacco (in Four Encore Songs) (Text: Graham Lee Hemminger) [x]
• To My Little Son (Text: Julia Johnson Davis)
• Travels' End (Text: May Folwell Hoisington)
• Trouble done come my way (in Two songs) (Text: Florence Beatrice Price)
• Wadin' In De Creek (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Wander-Thirst (Text: Gerald Gould)
• Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• We have Tomorrow (Text: Langston Hughes)
• What do I care for Morning (Text: Helene Johnson) *
• What's the use? (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• When I Gits Home (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• When the Green Lies Over the Earth, (Text: Angelina Weld Grimké) [x]
• Who Grope with Love for Hands (Text: Samuel Hoffenstein)
• Winter Idyl (Text: David Morton)
• Words for a Spiritual
• You’re in My Heart to Stay (Text: Le Roy De Gregory) [x]
• Your Leafy Voice (Text: Marion Doyle)
• Youth (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)

Last update: 2025-10-08 04:53:07