Composer: Howard Swanson (1907 - 1978)

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
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.

• 4 Preludes
• no. 1. The winter evening settles down (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 2. The morning comes to consciousness (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 3. You tossed a blanket from the bed (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 4. His soul stretched tight across the skies (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• Songs for Patricia
• no. 1. Darling those are birds (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• no. 2. No leaf may fall (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• no. 3. One day (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• no. 4. Goodnight (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A death song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Cahoots (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• Darling those are birds (in Songs for Patricia) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• Goodnight (in Songs for Patricia) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• His soul stretched tight across the skies (in 4 Preludes) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• In time of silver rain (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Joy (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Night song (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• No leaf may fall (in Songs for Patricia) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• O maan van my geniet (Text: Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven after Edward Fitzgerald) [x] ENG ENG ENG
• One day (in Songs for Patricia) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
• Pierrot (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Still Life (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• The Junk Man (Text: Carl Sandburg)
• The morning comes to consciousness (in 4 Preludes) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• The Negro speaks of rivers (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• The nightingales (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• The winter evening settles down (in 4 Preludes) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• You tossed a blanket from the bed (in 4 Preludes) (Text: T. S. Eliot)

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Last update: 2021-07-06 12:38:59