Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Cloud

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Night at the Opera
• no. 1. Steamship Ballroom (Text: Douglas Atwill) [x]
• Awake on a Spring Night
• no. 1. When I was young (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• no. 2. The time comes (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• no. 3. New grass (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• no. 4. Awake on a spring night (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• no. 5. The shape of laughter (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• Black Day, Bright Day
• no. 1. Sonnet XIV: Although I Cry (Text: Willis Barnstone after Louise Labé) * GER
• no. 2. Sonnet XV: To Honor the Return of Sparkling Sun (Text: Willis Barnstone after Louise Labé) * GER
• Botany for the Gods
• no. 1. Cassandra (Text: Janet Joyner) [x]
• Cowboy Dreams
• no. 1. The Cowboy's Dream (Text: Volkslieder , as Folk songs)
• De Amor Oscuro
• no. 1. Me diste una canasta de manzanas (Text: Federico Alarcón) [x]*
• no. 2. Desde que conoci en el camino (Text: Federico Alarcón) [x]*
• Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1
• no. 1. Sonnet XVII: from Manana (Morning) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 2. Sonnet XLV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 3. Sonnet LVII: Tarde (Evening) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 4. Sonnet LXXXIX: from Noche (Night) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2
• no. 1. Sonnet VIII: from Manana (Morning) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 2. Sonnet XXXV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 3. Sonnet LXX: Tarde (Evening) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• no. 4. Sonnet LXXXI: from Noche (Night) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• I Spill My Soul
• no. 1. thy fingers make early flowers (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 2. this is the garden:colours come and go (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 3. O Thou to whom the musical white spring (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Night Dreams
• no. 1. Night poem (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• no. 2. Siren song (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• no. 3. Variations on the word Sleep (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• no. 4. Flying inside your own body (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• Quatre mélodies de Ronsard
• no. 1. Quand je te vois, seule... (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• no. 2. Bonjour, mon cœur (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) CHI ENG
• no. 3. À sa guitare (Text: Pierre de Ronsard)
• no. 4. Je suis homme, né pour mourir (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• Songs of Need and Desire
• no. 1. Sonnet (1928) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
• no. 2. Not in time (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 3. Lyric 4 (Text: Perry Brass)
• The Secret History of Water
• no. 1. The blackbirds take over the sky (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 2. The secret history of water (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 3. The death of the tango (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 4. The lake has swallowed the whole sky (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 5. Drinking song (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 6. For all the goodbyes (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 7. Dreaming horse (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 8. The room was a pond (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 9. I'm in love, I'm floating (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 10. Last call (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 11. Janis Joplin (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 12. Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 13. Spontaneous human combustion (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• no. 14. The simple geography of leaving (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Three Songs from "Gleanings"
• no. 1. Anxiety (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• no. 2. The small girl, long since old (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• no. 3. I swallowed my anger (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• Três canções
• no. 1. Canto da juriti (Text: Cassiano Ricardo) *
• no. 2. Poema (Text: João Cabral de Melo Neto) [x]*
• no. 3. Soneto de separaçao (Text: Vinícius de Moraes) *
• Wink & Wonder
• no. 1. Morning at the Temple (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• no. 2. Camera ready (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• no. 3. Beloved Girl (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• no. 4. The Visitor (Text: Douglas Atwill) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Absences (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Anxiety (in Three Songs from "Gleanings") (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• À sa guitare (in Quatre mélodies de Ronsard) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard)
• A Short History of Medicine (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Awake on a spring night (in Awake on a Spring Night) (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• Beloved Girl (in Wink & Wonder) (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• Bonjour, mon cœur (in Quatre mélodies de Ronsard) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) CHI ENG
• Camera ready (in Wink & Wonder) (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• Canto da juriti (in Três canções ) (Text: Cassiano Ricardo) *
• Cassandra (in Botany for the Gods) (Text: Janet Joyner) [x]
• Celia singing (Text: Thomas Carew)
• Desde que conoci en el camino (in De Amor Oscuro) (Text: Federico Alarcón) [x]*
• Dreaming horse (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Drinking song (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Flying inside your own body (in Night Dreams) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• For all the goodbyes (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Hotel garden (Text: Carl Tomlinson) [x]*
• I'm in love, I'm floating (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• I swallowed my anger (in Three Songs from "Gleanings") (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• I've always had some problems with the Resurrection (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• Janis Joplin (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Je suis homme, né pour mourir (in Quatre mélodies de Ronsard) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• Last call (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Lullaby for the Earth (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
• Lyric 4 (in Songs of Need and Desire) (Text: Perry Brass)
• Me diste una canasta de manzanas (in De Amor Oscuro) (Text: Federico Alarcón) [x]*
• Morning at the Temple (in Wink & Wonder) (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• New grass (in Awake on a Spring Night) (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• Night poem (in Night Dreams) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• Not in time (in Songs of Need and Desire) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• O Thou to whom the musical white spring (in I Spill My Soul) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Poema (in Três canções ) (Text: João Cabral de Melo Neto) [x]*
• Quand je te vois, seule... (in Quatre mélodies de Ronsard) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• Siren song (in Night Dreams) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• Some nights you crank up the car radio and just drive (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Soneto de separaçao (in Três canções ) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes) *
• Sonnet VIII: from Manana (Morning) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2 ) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet XIV: Although I Cry (in Black Day, Bright Day) (Text: Willis Barnstone after Louise Labé) * GER
• Sonnet XV: To Honor the Return of Sparkling Sun (in Black Day, Bright Day) (Text: Willis Barnstone after Louise Labé) * GER
• Sonnet XVII: from Manana (Morning) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet XXXV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2 ) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet XLV: from Mediodia (Afternoon) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet LVII: Tarde (Evening) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet LXX: Tarde (Evening) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2 ) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet LXXXI: from Noche (Night) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 2 ) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet LXXXIX: from Noche (Night) (in Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, Set 1) (Text: Stephen Tapscott after Pablo Neruda) [x]*
• Sonnet (1928) (in Songs of Need and Desire) (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
• Spontaneous human combustion (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• Steamship Ballroom (in A Night at the Opera) (Text: Douglas Atwill) [x]
• Sweet, stay awhile
• The blackbirds take over the sky (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The Cowboy's Dream (in Cowboy Dreams) (Text: Volkslieder , as Folk songs)
• The death of the tango (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The lake has swallowed the whole sky (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The poet's pen (Text: Anonymous after Menecrates of Ephesus) [x]
• The room was a pond (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE FRI GER
• The secret history of water (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The shape of laughter (in Awake on a Spring Night) (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• The simple geography of leaving (in The Secret History of Water) (Text: Silvia Curbelo) *
• The small girl, long since old (in Three Songs from "Gleanings") (Text: Betty Andrews) [x]*
• The time comes (in Awake on a Spring Night) (Text: Betty Andrews) *
• The Visitor (in Wink & Wonder) (Text: Douglas Atwill) *
• The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• this is the garden:colours come and go (in I Spill My Soul) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• thy fingers make early flowers (in I Spill My Soul) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Variations on the word Sleep (in Night Dreams) (Text: Margaret Atwood) *
• Vocalissimus (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• When I was young (in Awake on a Spring Night) (Text: Betty Andrews) *

Last update: 2024-03-26 04:17:17