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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by V. Thomson

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Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 - 1989)

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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.:

  • Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear
    • The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)
    • The Akond of Swat (Text: Edward Lear)
  • Five Shakespeare Songs
    • no. 1. Was this fair face the cause (Text: William Shakespeare)
    • no. 2. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
    • no. 3. Tell me where is fancy bred (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
    • no. 4. Pardon, goddess of the night (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE
    • no. 5. Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
  • Five Songs from William Blake
    • no. 1. The divine image (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
    • no. 2. Tiger! Tiger! (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
    • no. 3. The land of dreams (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 4. The little black boy (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 5. And did those feet (Text: William Blake) GER SPA
  • Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion
    • no. 1. Follow your saint (Text: Thomas Campion)
    • no. 2. There is a garden in her face (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
    • no. 3. Rose cheek'd Laura, come (Text: Thomas Campion)
    • no. 4. Follow thy fair sun (Text: Thomas Campion)
  • La belle en dormant
    • no. 1. Pour chercher sur la carte des mers (Text: George Hugnet) *
    • no. 2. La première de toutes (Text: George Hugnet) *
    • no. 3. Mon amour est bon à dire (Text: George Hugnet) *
    • no. 4. Partis les vaisseaux (Text: George Hugnet) *
  • La valse grégorienne - quatre poèmes de G. Hugnet
    • no. 1. Les écrevisses (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 2. Grenadine (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 3. La rosée (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 4. Le wagon immobile (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet
    • no. 1. Rose is a rose par vaux et par monts (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 2. Voici que vient le jour (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 3. Souvent quand on s'endort (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 4. Nous ne savons plus danser (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 5. Vous lisez dans les lignes de la main (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 6. Qu'on ouvre la porte et Gertrude Stein apparait (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 7. Le soir, avant de se coucher, Gertrude Stein dessine (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
    • no. 8. Chère Gertrude, vous m'avez caché (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Mostly about love
    • no. 1. Love song (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
    • no. 2. Down at the docks (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
    • no. 3. Let's take a walk (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
    • no. 4. A prayer to Saint Catherine (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • Praises and Prayers
    • no. 2. My Master hath a garden (Text: Anonymous)
  • Praises and Prayers
    • From the Canticle of the Sun (Text: Matthew Arnold after Francis of Assisi, Saint ) GER SPA
  • Tres Estampas de Niñez
    • no. 1. Todas las horas (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
    • no. 2. Son amigos de todos (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
    • no. 3. Nadie lo oye como ellos (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
  • Trois Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan
    • no. 1. À son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
    • no. 2. Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
    • no. 3. La Seine (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
  • Two By Marianne Moore
    • no. 1. English Usage (Text: Marianne Moore) *
    • no. 2. My crow Pluto (Text: Marianne Moore) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • And did those feet (in Five Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake) GER SPA
  • A prayer to Saint Catherine (in Mostly about love) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • À son Altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat (in Trois Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan) (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
  • At the Spring (Text: Jasper Fisher)
  • Chère Gertrude, vous m'avez caché (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • De profundis clamavi (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE FRE FRE GER GER GER GER
  • Down at the docks (in Mostly about love) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • English Usage (in Two By Marianne Moore) (Text: Marianne Moore) *
  • Follow thy fair sun (in Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion) (Text: Thomas Campion)
  • Follow your saint (in Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion) (Text: Thomas Campion)
  • From the Canticle of the Sun (in Praises and Prayers) (Text: Matthew Arnold after Francis of Assisi, Saint ) GER SPA
  • Grenadine (in La valse grégorienne - quatre poèmes de G. Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • If thou a reason dost desire to know (Text: Francis Kynaston, Sir)
  • John Peel (Text: John Woodcock Graves)
  • Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (in Trois Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan) (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
  • La première de toutes (in La belle en dormant) (Text: George Hugnet) *
  • La rosée (in La valse grégorienne - quatre poèmes de G. Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • La Seine (in Trois Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan) (Text: Marie de Rohan, Duchesse; Herminie, Madame la Duchesse de Rohan) [x]
  • Les écrevisses (in La valse grégorienne - quatre poèmes de G. Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Le soir, avant de se coucher, Gertrude Stein dessine (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Let's take a walk (in Mostly about love) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • Le wagon immobile (in La valse grégorienne - quatre poèmes de G. Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Look, how the floor of heaven (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE
  • Love song (in Mostly about love) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
  • Mon amour est bon à dire (in La belle en dormant) (Text: George Hugnet) *
  • My crow Pluto (in Two By Marianne Moore) (Text: Marianne Moore) *
  • My Master hath a garden (in Praises and Prayers) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Nadie lo oye como ellos (in Tres Estampas de Niñez) (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
  • Nous ne savons plus danser (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Pardon, goddess of the night (in Five Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE
  • Partis les vaisseaux (in La belle en dormant) (Text: George Hugnet) *
  • Portrait of F. B. (Frances Blood) (Text: Gertrude Stein)
  • Pour chercher sur la carte des mers (in La belle en dormant) (Text: George Hugnet) *
  • Preciosilla (Text: Gertrude Stein)
  • Qu'on ouvre la porte et Gertrude Stein apparait (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Remember Adam's Fall
  • Rose cheek'd Laura, come (in Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion) (Text: Thomas Campion)
  • Rose is a rose par vaux et par monts (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Sigh no more, ladies (in Five Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
  • Son amigos de todos (in Tres Estampas de Niñez) (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
  • Souvent quand on s'endort (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Stabat Mater (Text: Max Jacob) ENG
  • Strike till the iron is hot (in Two By Marianne Moore) (Text: Marianne Moore) *
  • Susie Asado (Text: Gertrude Stein)
  • Take, o take those lips away (in Five Shakespeare Songs) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
  • Tell me where is fancy bred (in Five Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
  • The Akond of Swat (in Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear) (Text: Edward Lear)
  • The divine image (in Five Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
  • The Jumblies (in Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear) (Text: Edward Lear)
  • The land of dreams (in Five Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
  • The little black boy (in Five Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
  • There is a garden in her face (in Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
  • The sunflower (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
  • The Tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
  • Tiger! Tiger! (in Five Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
  • Todas las horas (in Tres Estampas de Niñez) (Text: Reyna Rivas) *
  • Voici que vient le jour (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Vous lisez dans les lignes de la main (in Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein ou Le mystère de la Rue de Fleurus: Huit Poêmes de Georges Hugnet) (Text: George Hugnet) [x]*
  • Was this fair face the cause (in Five Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare)

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