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Composer: Dominick Argento (1927-)

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Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

6 Elizabethan Songs

no. 1. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 2. Sleep (Text: Samuel Daniel)
no. 3. Winter (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
no. 4. Dirge (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR ITA SWE FRE GER FIN GER
no. 5. Diaphenia
no. 6. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE

A Nation of Cowslips

no. 1. The Devon maid (Text: John Keats)
no. 2. In praise of Apollo (Text: John Keats)
no. 3. On visiting Oxford (Text: John Keats)
no. 4. A party of lovers at tea (Text: John Keats)
no. 5. Sharing Eve's apple (Text: John Keats)
no. 6. There was a naughty boy (Text: John Keats)
no. 7. Two or three posies (Text: John Keats)

Casa Guidi

no. 1. Casa Guidi (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
no. 2. The Italian Cook and the English Maid (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
no. 3. Robert Browning (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
no. 4. The Death of Mr. Barrett (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
no. 5. Domesticity (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Evensong: Of Love and Angels

no. 1. Threnody (Orchestral prelude)
no. 2. Preces : Phos Hilaron (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. Psalm 102 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. The lesson (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. Sermon (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. Meditation (Orchestral intermezzo)
no. 7. Canticle: Nunc Dimittis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 8. Prayer/Lullaby (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 9. Anthem (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

no. 1. The Diary (April, 1919) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 2. Anxiety (October, 1920) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 3. Fancy (February, 1927) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 4. Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 5. Rome (May, 1935) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 6. War (June, 1940) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 7. Parents (December, 1940) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
no. 8. Last Entry (March, 1941) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*

I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)

no. 1. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 2. Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 3. Greetings, miss, with nose not small (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 4. My woman says she will be no one's but mine (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 5. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 6. You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 7. Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
no. 8. I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)

Letters from Composers

no. 1. Frédéric Chopin to a friend (Text: after Frédéric Chopin)
no. 2. W A Mozart to his father (Text: after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
no. 3. Franz Schubert to a friend (Text: after Franz Peter Schubert)
no. 4. J S Bach to the Town Council (Text: after Johann Sebastian Bach)
no. 5. Claude Debussy to a friend (Text: after Claude Achille Debussy)
no. 6. Giacomo Puccini to a friend (Text: after Giacomo Puccini)
no. 7. Robert Schumann to his fiancée (Text: after Robert Alexander Schumann)

Songs about Spring

no. 1. who knows if the moon's a balloon (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 2. Spring is like a perhaps hand (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 3. In Just-spring (Text: E. E. Cummings)
no. 4. in Spring comes (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. 5. when faces called flowers float out of the ground (Text: E. E. Cummings) *

To be sung upon the water

no. 1. Prologue: Shadow And Substance (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 2. The Lake At Evening (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 3. Music On The Water (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 4. Fair Is The Swan (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 5. In Remembrance Of Schubert (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 6. Hymn Near the Rapids (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 7. The Lake At Night (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 8. Epilogue: De Profundis (Text: William Wordsworth)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A party of lovers at tea (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
Anthem (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Anxiety (October, 1920) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Canticle: Nunc Dimittis (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Casa Guidi (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Claude Debussy to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Claude Achille Debussy)
Diaphenia (in 6 Elizabethan Songs)
Dirge (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR ITA SWE FRE GER FIN GER
Domesticity (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Epilogue: De Profundis (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
Fair Is The Swan (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
Fancy (February, 1927) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Franz Schubert to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Franz Peter Schubert)
Frédéric Chopin to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Frédéric Chopin)
Giacomo Puccini to a friend (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Giacomo Puccini)
Greetings, miss, with nose not small (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Hymn (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE
Hymn Near the Rapids (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
In Just-spring (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
In praise of Apollo (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
In Remembrance Of Schubert (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
in Spring comes (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
J S Bach to the Town Council (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Johann Sebastian Bach)
Last Entry (March, 1941) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
Meditation (Orchestral intermezzo) (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels)
Music On The Water (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
My woman says she will be no one's but mine (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
Ode to the west wind (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
On visiting Oxford (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
Parents (December, 1940) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Prayer/Lullaby (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Preces : Phos Hilaron (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Prologue: Shadow And Substance (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
Psalm 102 (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Robert Browning (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Robert Schumann to his fiancée (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Robert Alexander Schumann)
Rome (May, 1935) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Sermon (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Sharing Eve's apple (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
Sleep (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Samuel Daniel)
Spring (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Spring is like a perhaps hand (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
The Death of Mr. Barrett (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The Devon maid (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
The Diary (April, 1919) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
The Italian Cook and the English Maid (in Casa Guidi) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The Lake At Evening (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
The Lake At Night (in To be sung upon the water) (Text: William Wordsworth)
The lesson (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
There was a naughty boy (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
Threnody (Orchestral prelude) (in Evensong: Of Love and Angels)
Two or three posies (in A Nation of Cowslips) (Text: John Keats)
W A Mozart to his father (in Letters from Composers) (Text: after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
War (June, 1940) (in From the Diary of Virginia Woolf) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]*
Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
when faces called flowers float out of the ground (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
who knows if the moon's a balloon (in Songs about Spring) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Winter (in 6 Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love (in I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo)) (Text: Dominick Argento after Gaius Valerius Catullus)

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