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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Read

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Gardner Read (1913 - 2005)

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Four Nocturnes, op. 23
    • no. 1. When Moonlight Falls (Text: Hilda Conkling) *
    • no. 2. The unknown God (Text: George William Russell)
    • no. 2. A White Blossom (Text: Vail Read) *
    • no. 4. The moon (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • Nocturnal Visions, op. 45
    • no. 1. Night of all nights (Text: Jesse Hilton Stuart) *
    • no. 2. The First Jasmines (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
    • no. 3. I hear an army (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Songs for a Rainy Night, op. 48
    • no. 1. Nocturne (Text: Frances Frost) *
    • no. 2. All day I hear (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
  • Songs to Children, op. 76
    • no. 1. Lullaby for a Man-Child (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
    • no. 2. The First Jasmines (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
    • no. 3. Song of Innocence (Text: William Blake) RUS
  • Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, op. 68
    • no. 1. Lullaby for a dark hour (Text: Alfred Kreymborg) *
    • no. 2. River Night (Text: Frances Frost) *
    • no. 3. As I walked through the meadows (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Two Songs for Voice and Woodwind Quintet, op. 84b
    • no. 1. Sister awake (Text: Thomas Bateson)
    • no. 2. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • All day I hear, op. 48 no. 2 (in Songs for a Rainy Night) (Text: James Joyce) FRE IRI
  • As I walked through the meadows, op. 68 no. 3 (in Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • At bedtime (Text: Irene Beyers) [x]*
  • A White Blossom, op. 23 no. 2 (in Four Nocturnes) (Text: Vail Read) *
  • I hear an army, op. 45 no. 3 (in Nocturnal Visions) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • It is pretty in the city (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) [x]*
  • Lullaby for a dark hour, op. 68 no. 1 (in Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano) (Text: Alfred Kreymborg) *
  • Lullaby for a Man-Child, op. 76 no. 1 (in Songs to Children) (Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer) *
  • Music (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Night of all nights, op. 45 no. 1 (in Nocturnal Visions) (Text: Jesse Hilton Stuart) *
  • Nocturne, op. 48 no. 1 (in Songs for a Rainy Night) (Text: Frances Frost) *
  • Pierrot (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
  • River Night, op. 68 no. 2 (in Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano) (Text: Frances Frost) *
  • Sister awake, op. 84b no. 1 (in Two Songs for Voice and Woodwind Quintet) (Text: Thomas Bateson)
  • Song of Innocence, op. 76 no. 3 (in Songs to Children) (Text: William Blake) RUS
  • The First Jasmines, op. 45 no. 2 (in Nocturnal Visions) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
  • The First Jasmines, op. 76 no. 2 (in Songs to Children) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
  • The lamb , op. 84b no. 2 (in Two Songs for Voice and Woodwind Quintet) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
  • The moon, op. 23 no. 4 (in Four Nocturnes) (Text: William Henry Davies)
  • The Reveille (Text: Bret Harte)
  • The unknown God, op. 23 no. 2 (in Four Nocturnes) (Text: George William Russell)
  • When Moonlight Falls, op. 23 no. 1 (in Four Nocturnes) (Text: Hilda Conkling) *
  • Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA

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