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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Swanson

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Howard Swanson (1907 - 1978)

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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.:

  • 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

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