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Composer: Josef Alexander (1907-1992)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Gitanjali

no. 1. Light, my light (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) BTR FRE GER FRE
no. 2. Yes, I know (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ITA FRE DUT GER
no. 3. Is it beyond thee (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
no. 4. What divine drink (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
no. 5. Deliverance (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
no. 6. Day after day (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
no. 7. Time is endless (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
no. 8. I know that the day will come (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER SWE
no. 9. On the day (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER FRE
no. 10. O thou (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER DUT

Songs for Eve

no. ?. Adam's riddle (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. The babe's riddle (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve answers the burdock (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve in the dawn (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve old (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve to the storm of thunder (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve's child (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve's exile (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve's Now-I-Lay-Me (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve's rebuke to her child (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. Eve's riddle (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. The fall (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. The serpent's riddle (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. What Eve said (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. ?. What Eve sang (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*

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

Adam's riddle (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
anyone lived in a pretty how town (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
Day after day (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
Deliverance (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
Eve answers the burdock (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve in the dawn (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve old (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve to the storm of thunder (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve's child (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve's exile (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve's Now-I-Lay-Me (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve's rebuke to her child (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Eve's riddle (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
I know that the day will come (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER SWE
Is it beyond thee (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
Light, my light (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) BTR FRE GER FRE
O thou (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER DUT
On the day (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER FRE
The babe's riddle (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
The fall (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
The serpent's riddle (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Time is endless (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) GER
Western wagons (Text: Stephen Vincent Benét) [x]*
What divine drink (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore)
What Eve said (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
What Eve sang (in Songs for Eve) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Yes, I know (in Gitanjali) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ITA FRE DUT GER