Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Bolcom

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William Bolcom (b. 1938)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Briefly It Enters

no. 1. Who (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 2. The clearing (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 3. Otherwise (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 4. February: Thinking of flowers (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 5. Twilight: After haying (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 6. Man eating (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 7. The sick wife (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 8. Peonies at dusk (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 9. Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks (Text: Jane Kenyon) *

Cabaret songs

no. ?. Oh close the curtain (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
no. ?. George (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
no. ?. Over the Piano (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
no. 1. Amor (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
no. 3. Fur (Murray the Furrier) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *

I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets

no. 1. Pity me not because the light of day (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 2. How to swing those obbligatos around (Text: Alice Fulton) *
no. 3. The crazy woman (Text: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks) *
no. 4. Just once (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 5. Never more will the wind (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
no. 6. The sage (Text: Denise Levertov) *
no. 7. O to be a dragon (Text: Marianne Moore) *
no. 8. The bustle in a house (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 9. I saw Eternity (Text: Louise Bogan)
no. 10. Night practice (Text: Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson) *
no. 11. The fish (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *

Let Evening Come

no. 1. Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield (Text: Maya Angelou) *
no. 2. 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. Interlude (viola and piano)
no. 4. Let evening come (Text: Jane Kenyon) *

Morning and Evening Poems

no. 1. To Morning (Text: William Blake) CZE
no. 2. I heard an angel singing (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. I fear'd the fury of my wind (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. I thought love lived in the hot sunshine (Text: William Blake)

Old Addresses

no. 1. Lady Death (Text: Allan Davis Winans) *
no. 2. The next table (Text: Avi Sharon after Constantine P. Cavafy) * FRE
no. 3. Histrion (Text: Ezra Pound) *
no. 4. Ballad of the Landlord (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 5. The embrace (Text: Mark Doty) *
no. 6. Africa (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
no. 7. To my old addresses (Text: Kenneth Koch) *

Open House

no. 1. Open house (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 2. Give way, ye gates (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 3. The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 4. The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 5. I knew a woman (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 6. First meditation (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 7. The right thing (Text: Theodore Roethke) *

Songs of Experience, Volume One

no. 1. Introduction
no. 2. Hear the voice of the Bard (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Interlude
no. 4. Earth's answer (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake) CAT
no. 6. The fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
no. 7. The Tyger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
no. 8. The little girl lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. In the Southern Clime (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. The little girl found (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. The clod and the pebble (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 12. The Little Vagabond (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 14. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER
no. 15. The angel (Text: William Blake)
no. 16. The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
no. 17. To Tirzah (Text: William Blake)

Songs of Experience, Volume Two

no. 1. The Voice of the Ancient Bard (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. My pretty rose tree (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Ah! Sun-flower! (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
no. 4. The lily (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Introduction to Part 5
no. 6. The Garden of Love (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 7. A little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. A little girl lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. Infant sorrow (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Vocalise
no. 11. London (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 12. The school boy (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 14. The Human Abstract (Text: William Blake)
no. 15. Interlude -- Voces Clamandae
no. 16. A divine image (Text: William Blake)

Songs of Innocence

no. 1. Introduction (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 2. The echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
no. 3. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
no. 5. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 6. The little black boy (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
no. 8. Spring (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 9. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. Interlude
no. 14. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake)
no. 15. The divine image (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
no. 16. Nocturne
no. 17. Night (Text: William Blake)
no. 18. A Dream (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
no. 19. On another's sorrow (Text: William Blake)
no. 20. The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 21. The little boy found (Text: William Blake)
no. 22. Coda

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]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A cradle song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
A divine image (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
A Dream (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
Africa (in Old Addresses) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Ah! Sun-flower! (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield (in Let Evening Come) (Text: Maya Angelou) *
A little boy lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
A little girl lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
Amor (in Cabaret songs) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
A poison tree (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER
At the last lousy moments of love (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Ballad of the Landlord (in Old Addresses) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
Coda (in Songs of Innocence)
Earth's answer (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
February: Thinking of flowers (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
First meditation (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Fur (Murray the Furrier) (in Cabaret songs) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
George (in Cabaret songs) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Give way, ye gates (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Hear the voice of the Bard (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Histrion (in Old Addresses) (Text: Ezra Pound) *
Holy Thursday (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Holy Thursday (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
How to swing those obbligatos around (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Alice Fulton) *
I fear'd the fury of my wind (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
I heard an angel singing (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
I knew a woman (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Infant Joy (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Infant sorrow (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
Interlude (viola and piano) (in Let Evening Come)
Interlude -- Voces Clamandae (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)
Interlude (in Songs of Experience, Volume One)
Interlude (in Songs of Innocence)
In the Southern Clime (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Introduction to Part 5 (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)
Introduction (in Songs of Experience, Volume One)
Introduction (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
I saw Eternity (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Louise Bogan)
I thought love lived in the hot sunshine (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
Just once (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Lady Death (in Old Addresses) (Text: Allan Davis Winans) *
Laughing song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
Let evening come (in Let Evening Come) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
London (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
Man eating (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
My pretty rose tree (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
Never more will the wind (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Hilda Doolittle)
Night practice (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson) *
Night (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Nocturne (in Songs of Innocence)
Nurse's song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Nurse's song (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) CAT
Oh close the curtain (in Cabaret songs) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
On another's sorrow (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Open house (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Otherwise (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
O to be a dragon (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Marianne Moore) *
Over the Piano (in Cabaret songs) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Peonies at dusk (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
Pity me not because the light of day (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Song of Black Max (As Told by the de Kooning Boys) (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Spring (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) GER
The angel (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The blossom (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The bustle in a house (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
The chimney sweeper (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
The chimney sweeper (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The clearing (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
The clod and the pebble (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) RUS
The crazy woman (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks) *
The divine image (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
The echoing green (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) DUT
The embrace (in Old Addresses) (Text: Mark Doty) *
The fish (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
The fly (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
The Garden of Love (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) GER
The Human Abstract (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The Junction, on a warm afternoon (Text: Howard Nemerov) *
The lamb (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
The lily (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The little black boy (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little boy found (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little boy lost (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little girl found (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The little girl lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The Little Vagabond (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The next table (in Old Addresses) (Text: Avi Sharon after Constantine P. Cavafy) * FRE
The right thing (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The sage (in I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets) (Text: Denise Levertov) *
The school boy (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The serpent (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The shepherd (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT
The sick rose (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
The sick wife (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
The Tyger (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
The Voice of the Ancient Bard (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The waking (in Open House) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so (in Let Evening Come) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
To Morning (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake) CZE
To my old addresses (in Old Addresses) (Text: Kenneth Koch) *
Toothbrush Time (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
To Tirzah (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Twilight: After haying (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
Vaslav's song (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
Vocalise (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)
Who (in Briefly It Enters) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *

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