Texts by C. Aiken set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems
• Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems
• The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems
• Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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• All lovely things will have an ending - G. Bachlund
• All Lovely Things (All lovely things will have an ending) - G. Bachlund
• April Rain (Fall, rain! You are the blood of coming blossom) - B. Crist
• Bread and music (Music I heard with you was more than music) (from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse) - J. Duke, W. Fast, R. Robbins, J. Spencer
• By a silent shore (It is evening, Senlin says, and in the evening) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Dark Origins) - B. Crist
• Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket - G. Bachlund (Dead Cleopatra)
• Dead Cleopatra (Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket) - G. Bachlund
• Discordants (Music I heard with you was more than music) (from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse)
• Enchantment (You are as beautiful as white clouds) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Variations) - B. Crist
• Evening (The pale blue gloom of evening comes) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• Fall, rain! You are the blood of coming blossom - B. Crist (April rain)
• I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations)
• It is evening, Senlin says, and in the evening (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Dark Origins) - B. Crist
• It is noontime, Senlin says. The sky is brilliant (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream (from Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems) - B. Crist
• Knock on the door, and you shall have an answer! (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• Knock on the door (Knock on the door, and you shall have an answer!) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• Music I heard with you was more than music (from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse) - L. Bernstein, G. Cory, H. Cowell, J. Duke, H. Elwell, R. Faith, W. Fast, R. Hageman, R. Hughes, P. Nordoff, R. Robbins, J. Spencer, B. Treharne, R. Williams (Discordants)
• Music I heard with you (Music I heard with you was more than music) (from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse) - L. Bernstein, G. Cory, H. Elwell, R. Faith, R. Hageman, R. Hughes, P. Nordoff
• Music I heard (Music I heard with you was more than music) (from Turns and Moves and Other Tales in Verse) - H. Cowell, B. Treharne, R. Williams
• Noontime (It is noontime, Senlin says. The sky is brilliant) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• Priapus and the Pool (This is the shape of the leaf, and this of the flower) (from Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems) *
• Red leaf, red leaf, falling to float (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Variations) - B. Crist
• The Dark King's Daughter (Red leaf, red leaf, falling to float) (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Variations) - B. Crist
• The pale blue gloom of evening comes (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Senlin: A Biography - His Futile Preoccupations) - B. Crist
• This is the shape of the leaf, and this of the flower (from Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems) * - P. Nordoff (Priapus and the Pool)
• This is the shape of the leaf (This is the shape of the leaf, and this of the flower) (from Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems) - P. Nordoff *
• White hours like snow, white hours like eternal snow (from Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems - White Nocturne) - B. Crist
• White hours like snow (White hours like snow, white hours like eternal snow) (from Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems - White Nocturne) - B. Crist
• White nocturne (I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream) (from Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems) - B. Crist
• You are as beautiful as white clouds (from The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems - Variations) - B. Crist

Last update: 2023-12-13 00:58:16