Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Thompson

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Concord Cantata [cantata]
• The Gift Outright (Text: Robert Frost)
• Frostiana
• The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)
• A girl's garden (Text: Robert Frost)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Come In (Text: Robert Frost)
• The Road not Taken (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Choose Something Like a Star (Text: Robert Frost)
• The telephone (Text: Robert Frost)
• Odes of Horace
• no. 1. Montium Custos (Book 3, 22) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• no. 2. Vitas hinnueleo (Book 1, 23) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• no. 3. O fons Bandusiae (Book 3, 13) (Text: Horace ) CHI ENG FRE GER ITA POL
• no. 4. Felices ter (final verse of Book 1, 13) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• The Peaceable Kingdom
• no. 1. Say ye to the righteous (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 2. Woe unto them (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 3. The noise of a multitude (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 4. Howl ye (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 5. The Paper Reeds by the Brooks (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 6. But these are they (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 7. Ye shall have a song (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• The Testament of Freedom [cantata]
• no. 1. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time (Text: Thomas Jefferson)
• no. 4. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty (Text: Thomas Jefferson)
• Two Herbert Settings, for chorus
• no. 1. Antiphon (Text: George Herbert)
• no. 2. Bitter-Sweet (Text: George Herbert)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A girl's garden (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost)
• Antiphon (in Two Herbert Settings, for chorus) (Text: George Herbert)
• Bitter-Sweet (in Two Herbert Settings, for chorus) (Text: George Herbert)
• But these are they (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Choose Something Like a Star (Text: Robert Frost)
• Choose Something Like a Star (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost)
• Come In (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost)
• Felices ter (final verse of Book 1, 13) (in Odes of Horace) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• Howl ye (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty (in The Testament of Freedom) (Text: Thomas Jefferson)
• Montium Custos (Book 3, 22) (in Odes of Horace) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• My Master hath a garden (Text: Anonymous)
• O fons Bandusiae (Book 3, 13) (in Odes of Horace) (Text: Horace ) CHI ENG FRE GER ITA POL
• Say ye to the righteous (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Spring (Text: William Blake) GER
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Tarantella (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The Best of Rooms (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The Gift Outright (in A Concord Cantata) (Text: Robert Frost)
• The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time (in The Testament of Freedom) (Text: Thomas Jefferson)
• The last invocation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
• The noise of a multitude (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• The Paper Reeds by the Brooks (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• The pasture (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost)
• The Road not Taken (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• The telephone (in Frostiana) (Text: Robert Frost)
• Velvet shoes (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• Vitas hinnueleo (Book 1, 23) (in Odes of Horace) (Text: Horace ) ENG
• Woe unto them (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Ye shall have a song (in The Peaceable Kingdom) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Last update: 2025-06-16 22:10:01