Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Carpenter

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Eight Songs
• no. 1. The green river (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
• no. 2. Don't ceäre (Text: William Barnes)
• no. 3. Looking-Glass River (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 4. Bid me to live (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• no. 4. Dis-moi d'aimer (Text: Maurice Maeterlinck after Robert Herrick)
• no. 5. Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
• no. 6. The cock shall crow (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 7. The little fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
• no. 8. A cradle-song (Text: William Blake) GER
• Four Negro Songs
• no. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 2. The cryin' blues (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 3. Jazz-Boys (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 4. That soothin' song (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• Four Poems by Paul Verlaine
• no. 1. Il pleure dans mon cœur (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
• no. 2. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• no. 3. Le ciel (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
• no. 4. Dansons la gigue! (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
• Four Songs for a Medium Voice
• no. 1. Les Silhouettes (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
• no. 2. Her Voice (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• no. 3. To one unknown (Text: Helen Dudley)
• no. 4. Fog wraiths (Text: Mildred Howells)
• Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (Gitanjali - Sangesopfer, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
• no. 1. When I bring to you colour’d toys (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
• no. 2. On the day when death will knock at thy door (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER GER SWE
• no. 3. The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
• no. 4. I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• no. 5. On the seashore of endless worlds children meet (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• no. 6. Light, my light (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
• Three Songs for a Medium Voice
• no. 1. The Lawd is smilin' through the do’ (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. Wull ye come in eärly Spring (Text: William Barnes)
• no. 3. Treat me nice (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems
• no. 1. On a screen (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 2. The odalisque (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Liu Yuxi)
• no. 3. Highwaymen (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Shê)
• no. 4. To a young gentleman (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A cradle-song (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Blake) GER
• Berceuse de guerre (Text: Émile Cammaerts) ENG
• Bid me to live (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• Chanson d'automne (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Dansons la gigue! (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
• Dis-moi d'aimer (in Eight Songs) (Text: Maurice Maeterlinck after Robert Herrick)
• Don't ceäre (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Barnes)
• En sourdine (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CAT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GRE SPA SPA
• Fog wraiths (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Mildred Howells)
• Go, lovely rose (in Eight Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
• Her Voice (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• Highwaymen (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Shê)
• I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• Il pleure dans mon cœur (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
• Jazz-Boys (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Khaki Sammy (Text: John Alden Carpenter)
• Le ciel (in Four Poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
• Les Silhouettes (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
• Light, my light (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA
• Looking-Glass River (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• May the Maiden (Text: Sidney Lanier)
• Morning Fair (Text: James Agee) [x]*
• On a screen (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Li-Tai-Po)
• On the day when death will knock at thy door (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER GER SWE
• On the seashore of endless worlds children meet (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• On the Seashore of Endless Worlds (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
• Serenade (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
• Shake your brown feet, honey (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Slumber-song (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
• That soothin' song (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• The cock shall crow (in Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• The cryin' blues (in Four Negro Songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• The day is no more (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE FRE GER GER ITA
• The green river (in Eight Songs) (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
• The Home Road (Text: John Alden Carpenter)
• The Lawd is smilin' through the do’ (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Volkslieder )
• The little fly (in Eight Songs) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
• The little turtle (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
• The odalisque (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Liu Yuxi)
• The Player Queen (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
• The sleep that flits on baby's eyes (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
• To a young gentleman (in Water-Colors: Four Chinese Tone Poems) (Text: Herbert Allen Giles after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
• To one unknown (in Four Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Helen Dudley)
• Treat me nice (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• When I bring to you colour’d toys (in Gitanjali (Song Offerings)) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER GER
• When the misty shadows glide (Text: John Alden Carpenter after Paul Verlaine) CAT CAT GER GER GER GRE SPA SPA
• Wull ye come in eärly Spring (in Three Songs for a Medium Voice) (Text: William Barnes)
• Young Man, Chieftain! - An Indian Prayer (Text: Mary Hunter Austin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

Last update: 2024-09-28 18:19:09