Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Busby
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Animals like me
- no. ?. Porcupine (Text: Jill Hausman, Rabbi) [x]*
- Blow out the light
- no. ?. Blow out the light (Text: James Purdy) [x]*
- Listen
- Music, when soft voices die -- Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano
- The Schuyler Songs
- no. 1. What ails my fern? (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- no. 2. We walk (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- no. 3. Sleep (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- no. 4. The snow (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- no. 5. Poem (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- To the Western Wind
- no. ?. To the Western Wind (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet
- no. 1. Great spangled fritillary (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- no. 2. Bumblebees (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- no. 3. Lyre-leaved rock cress (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- no. 4. Black-eyed Susan (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- no. 5. The mystery flower (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- no. 6. Joe-Pye weed (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- 3 Songs for Ellen [song cycle] (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- A boy's song (Text: James Hogg)
- Aftercome (Text: David Linter) [x]*
- Amends (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- An air that seems the inner drought (Text: David Linter) [x]*
- And he was taken up (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
- And so now, I (Text: David Linter) [x]*
- A Rose is a Rose [song cycle] (Text: Yuko Otomo) [x]*
- Artaud le Momo (Text: Steve Dalachinsky) [x]*
- A satisfactory solution (Text: Tobias Schneebaum ) [x]*
- A shelf in woop's clothing [song cycle] (Text: Mac Wellman) [x]*
- Back Poems (Matisse) [song cycle] (Text: Steve Dalachinsky) [x]*
- Baja Eclogue [song cycle] (Text: Mary Ann McFadden) [x]*
- Behold this swarthy face (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Between the straits [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Birding (Text: Paulette Licitra) [x]*
- Birds into my bed [song cycle] (Text: Alice Rose George) [x]*
- Black-eyed Susan (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Blow out the light (in Blow out the light) (Text: James Purdy) [x]*
- Bonfire at midnight (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- Bumblebees (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Chloris in the snow (Text: William Strode)
- Competing depth [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Consciousness [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Credo (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- Disclosure [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Ed's boots (Text: Brad Gooch) [x]*
- Ein Zeugnis [song cycle] (Text: Brechthold Streeruwitz) [x]*
- Either/Or (Text: Anonymous after Søren Kierkegaard) [x]
- Emily (Snug as a Pebble) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Emotion (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- Eye high (Text: Michael Gizzi) [x]*
- First moment waking [song cycle] (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- Five quatrains [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- Forgiven at last (Text: Dalt Wonk) [x]*
- Fork in the road (Text: David Linter) [x]*
- Four Sonnets [song cycle] (Text: Michael Gizzi) [x]*
- Friend (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- From Creature to Ghoste [song cycle] (Text: Pauline Hanson) [x]*
- Gizzi Songs [song cycle] (Text: Michael Gizzi) [x]*
- Great spangled fritillary (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Hop in [song cycle] (Text: Robert Thompson) [x]*
- Huri (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- In Daddy's hand (Text: Albert René Ricard) [x]*
- Intentional walk (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- In the field [song cycle] (Text: Adam David Miller) [x]*
- Intimate gifts [song cycle] (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- It's a children's song (Text: David Linter) [x]*
- Jars of springwater [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]*
- Joe-Pye weed (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Keith's History of the Human Body (-Abridged-) [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Listen (in Listen) (Text: Anonymous after Vladimir Mayakovsky) [x] FRE
- Love [song cycle] (Text: William Shakespeare) [x]
- Lyre-leaved rock cress (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- Magical realism (Text: Steve Dalachinsky) [x]*
- Make Mock [song cycle] (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- Marry me (A Gay Cantata) [cycle] (Text: Carl Bishop) [x]*
- Memories [song cycle] (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- Moths at my window [song cycle] (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- Music lessons [song cycle] (Text: Edward Field) [x]*
- Music, when soft voices die (in Music, when soft voices die -- Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
- My locomotives (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Old Jim Arundel (Text: Mary Ann McFadden) [x]*
- (One breath) (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Only the wind [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Orpheus [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Pardon me for loitring (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Poem (in The Schuyler Songs) (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- Porch swing (Text: Maggie Paley) [x]*
- Porcupine (in Animals like me) (Text: Jill Hausman, Rabbi) [x]*
- Quantification (Text: R. B. Adams) [x]*
- Rachminoff's Third [song cycle] (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- Rain, a List (Text: Frankie Kraintz) [x]*
- Rats know what good sex is [song cycle] (Text: Michael Gizzi) [x]*
- Re: Montauk Poems [song cycle] (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- Room tone [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Rules of sleep [song cycle] (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
- Santa Fe (Text: R. B. Adams) [x]*
- Sleep (in The Schuyler Songs) (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- Sleepsong (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- Sometimes I forget completely (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- Songs from ancient Greek [song cycle] (Text: Robert J. Lenardon after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
- Songs from Calamus [song cycle] (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
- Standard Candles [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Stars [song cycle] (Text: Pauline Hanson) [x]*
- Starve (Text: Brad Gooch) [x]*
- Sunset (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- The Beard Songs [song cycle] (Text: Mark Beard) [x]*
- The boy who walks with the sun (Text: Bil Wright) [x]*
- The fly that clings to honey [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous after Saint John of the Cross, né Juan de Yepes Alvarez) [x]
- The guest house (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- The Herrick Songs [song cycle] (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
- The Hoffman Songs [song cycle] (Text: William M. Hoffman) [x]*
- The Mother Songs [song cycle] (Text: Richard McCann) [x]*
- The Music [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- The mystery flower (in Wild Flowers : a Blue Ridge Bouquet) (Text: Robin Jones) [x]*
- The names (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- The plummet of vitruvius [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- The Purdy Songs [song cycle] (Text: James Purdy) [x]*
- The Silhouette of the Bridge -- Songs (Memory Stand-ins) [song cycle] (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- The snow (in The Schuyler Songs) (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- The Unexamined Life [song cycle] (Text: Maggie Paley) [x]*
- This is just to say (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
- To the Western Wind (in To the Western Wind) (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Trains (Text: Keith Waldrop) [x]*
- Travelers [song cycle] (Text: Mary Ann McFadden) [x]*
- Treeman's lament [song cycle] (Text: Michael Gizzi) [x]*
- Viola (Text: Craig Lucas) [x]*
- We walk (in The Schuyler Songs) (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- What ails my fern? (in The Schuyler Songs) (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) [x]*
- What was said to the rose (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- Where? [song cycle] (Text: Anonymous after Saint John of the Cross, né Juan de Yepes Alvarez) [x]
- Where was I? (Text: Ellen Peckham) [x]*
- Winter nights (Text: Thomas Campion)
- Words with my mouth (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
- You are as you are (Text: Anonymous after Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī) [x]
Last update: 2023-11-29 04:30:09