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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Gordon

 𝄞 Composer 𝄞 

Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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A * indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
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.:

  • Autumn Valentine
    • no. ?. Resumé/Wail/Frustration [multi-text setting]
  • Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
    • no. 1. Winter moon (Text: Langston Hughes) *
    • no. 2. Genius child (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 3. Kid in the park (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 4. To be somebody (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 5. Troubled woman (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 6. Strange hurt (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 7. Prayer (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 8. Border line (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 9. My people (Text: Langston Hughes)
    • no. 10. Joy (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • My Life with Albertine
    • no. ?. Sometimes (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon; Richard Nelson) *
  • The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
    • no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
    • no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
    • no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
    • no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
    • no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
    • no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
    • no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
    • no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
    • no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
    • no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
    • no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
    • no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
    • no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
    • no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
    • no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
    • no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
    • no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
    • no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
  • Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano (Zu wenig Morgen sind’s. Elf Lieder für Sopran und Klavier, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
    • no. 1. Too few the mornings be (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 2. If all the griefs I am to have (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 3. The bustle in a house (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 4. This is my letter to the world (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 5. You cannot put a Fire out (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 6. Bee! I'm expecting you! (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
    • no. 7. Poor little heart! (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 9. How happy is the little stone (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
    • no. 10. Estranged from Beauty (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 11. Will there really be a morning? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A contemporary (Text: William Stanley Merwin) *
  • A horse with wings (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
  • Bee! I'm expecting you! (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER GER
  • Border line (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Bus stop (Text: Donald Justice) *
  • Dream True (Text: Tina Landau) *
  • Estranged from Beauty (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Genius child (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Heaven (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • How happy is the little stone (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
  • If all the griefs I am to have (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • I never knew (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
  • I understand you coyotes (Text: Ray Underwood) *
  • Joy (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Kid in the park (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • My people (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • My sister's new red hat (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
  • New moon (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Open All Night (Text: James Agee) *
  • Poem (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
  • Poor little heart! (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Prayer (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Resumé/Wail/Frustration [multi-text setting] (in Autumn Valentine)
  • Sometimes (in My Life with Albertine) (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon; Richard Nelson) *
  • Song for a Dark Girl (Text: Langston Hughes) GER GER
  • Souvenir (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • Strange hurt (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Summer (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) *
  • The bustle in a house (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • The red dress (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
  • This is my letter to the world (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Three floors (Text: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz) *
  • To be somebody (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Too few the mornings be (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Troubled woman (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Virginia Woolf (Text: James Marcus Schuyler) *
  • Will there really be a morning (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Will there really be a morning? (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
  • Winter moon (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
  • You cannot put a Fire out (in Too Few the Mornings Be. Eleven Songs for Soprano and Piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER

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