Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Still

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William Grant Still (1895 - 1978)

Website: http://www.williamgrantstillmusic.com/

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

From the hearts of women

no. 1. Little mother (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
no. 2. Midtide (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
no. 3. Coquette (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
no. 4. Bereft (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*

Songs of Separation

no. 1. Idolatry (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
no. 2. Poème (Text: Philippe Thoby-Marcelin) * ENG
no. 3. Parted (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 4. If you should go (Text: Countee Cullen)
no. 5. A black pierrot (Text: Langston Hughes)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A black pierrot (in Songs of Separation) (Text: Langston Hughes)
All that I am (Text: Verna Arvey) *
And they lynched him on a tree (Text: Anna Alice Chapin) [x]
Bereft (in From the hearts of women) (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
Citadel (Text: Virginia Brasier) *
Coquette (in From the hearts of women) (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
Grief (Text: LeRoy V. Brant) *
Here’s One (Text: Volkslieder )
Idolatry (in Songs of Separation) (Text: Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
If you should go (in Songs of Separation) (Text: Countee Cullen)
Little mother (in From the hearts of women) (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
Midtide (in From the hearts of women) (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
Parted (in Songs of Separation) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Plain Chant for America (Text: Katherine Garrison Chapin) *
Poème (in Songs of Separation) (Text: Philippe Thoby-Marcelin) * ENG
Song for the Lonely (Text: Verna Arvey) *
The breath of a rose (Text: Langston Hughes)
Wailing woman (Text: Verna Arvey) [x]*
Winter's approach (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Last update: 2023-12-20 16:08:28