Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Swanson
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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)
Last update: 2023-05-10 19:34:12