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Composer: Seymour Barab (1921-)

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Website: http://www.seymourbarab.com/

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Little Light Music

no. 1. Infallible system (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 2. Why Johnny hates school (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 3. A learned man (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 4. Penny scale (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
no. 5. I love a Latin band (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*

Airs and Fancies

no. 1. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER FRE
no. 2. The oocuck (Text: Justin Richardson) *
no. 3. Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16^th century) GER
no. 4. Bread and butter (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
no. 5. Five reasons (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
no. 6. Autumn song (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 7. Why does (s)he so long delay? (Text: Thomas Moore)

Bagatelles

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. Roundelay (Text: John Dryden)
no. 3. Pure (Text: Thomas Moore)
no. 4. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
no. 5. If Love were what the Rose is (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
no. 6. Tom (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
no. 7. The owl (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 8. The pigtail (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE

Bawd Ballads

no. 1. Sylvia and Cupid (Text: John Dryden)
no. 2. Dick and Rose (Text: Matthew Prior)
no. 3. Coridon and Phyllis
no. 4. Priest and penitent (Text: G. G. Belli) [x]
no. 5. He and she [x]
no. 6. Alexis and Celia (Text: John Dryden)
no. 7. Strephon and Chloe (Text: Charles Hanbury Williams, Sir, KB)
no. 8. Miss Jane (Text: John Lockman) [x]
no. 9. Elle et lui [x]
no. 10. A maid and a man [x]
no. 11. A lady [x]

Bits and Pieces

no. 1. Slow, slow, fresh fount (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 2. The rain [x]
no. 3. Did not (Text: Thomas Moore)
no. 4. Waste (Text: Harry Graham) [x]
no. 5. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. Late riser [x]
no. 7. Do not love too long (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 8. There was a king [x]
no. 9. I heard a linnet courting (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

First Person Feminine

no. 1. Pierrot (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 2. The daisy (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 3. The song for Colin (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 4. The wayfarer (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 5. The look (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 6. Love me (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 7. The kiss (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Four Songs

no. 1. Go lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller)
no. 2. She's somewhere in the sunlight strong (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
no. 3. Minstrel's Song (Text: Thomas Chatterton)
no. 4. I can't be talkin' of love (Text: Esther Matthews) *

Lovers

no. 1. Careless lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
no. 2. Patient lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 3. Rejected lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 4. Constant lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
no. 5. False lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 6. Perplexed lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
no. 7. Honest lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)

Moments Macabres

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. Old Roger [x]
no. 3. Down by the greenwood shady [x]
no. 4. The walk [x]
no. 5. A man of words and not of deeds [x]
no. 6. Gypsies in the wood [x]
no. 7. Elegy for Frederick the Great [x]
no. 8. Mama had a baby [x]

Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters

no. 1. I'll Never go to Macy's (Handel) [x]
no. 2. Miss Lucy (Donizetti) [x]
no. 3. I was standing on the corner (Wolf) [x]
no. 4. Poor old lady (Moussorgsky) [x]
no. 5. Charlie Chaplin (Duparc) [x]
no. 6. Spanish dancer (de Falla) [x]

Songs of Perfect Propriety

no. 1. Song of perfect propriety (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 2. Now at liberty (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 3. Ultimatum (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 4. Renunciation (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 5. Inventory (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 6. Social note (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 7. A very short song (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 8. One perfect rose (Text: Dorothy Parker)
no. 9. Wisdom (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 10. Men (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 11. Lullaby (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 12. Comment (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 13. Symptom recital (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
no. 14. The false friends (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 15. Love song (Text: Dorothy Parker)
no. 16. Indian Summer (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 17. Somebody's song (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 18. Song of one of the girls (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 19. Bric-Brac (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 20. They part (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 21. Chant for dark hours (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 22. The choice (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 23. The trusting heart (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
no. 24. Coda (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*

The Rivals

no. 1. The daisies (Text: James Stephens) SPA
no. 2. The rose in the wind (Text: James Stephens) *
no. 3. The hawk (Text: James Stephens)
no. 4. The rivals (Text: James Stephens)

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

A lady (in Bawd Ballads) [x]
A learned man (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
A maid and a man (in Bawd Ballads) [x]
A maid me loved (Text: Patrick Hannay)
A man of words and not of deeds (in Moments Macabres) [x]
A very short song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Alexis and Celia (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Dryden)
An explanation (Text: Walter Learned)
Autumn song (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Bread and butter (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
Bric-Brac (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Careless lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
Chant for dark hours (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Charlie Chaplin (Duparc) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
Coda (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Comment (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Constant lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
Coridon and Phyllis (in Bawd Ballads)
Dick and Rose (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Matthew Prior)
Did not (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Do not love too long (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Down by the greenwood shady (in Moments Macabres) [x]
Elegy for Frederick the Great (in Moments Macabres) [x]
Elle et lui (in Bawd Ballads) [x]
False lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Five reasons (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
Go lovely rose (in Four Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller)
Gypsies in the wood (in Moments Macabres) [x]
He and she (in Bawd Ballads) [x]
Honest lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
I can't be talkin' of love (in Four Songs) (Text: Esther Matthews) *
I heard a linnet courting (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
I love a Latin band (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
I was standing on the corner (Wolf) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
If Love were what the Rose is (in Bagatelles) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
I'll Never go to Macy's (Handel) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
Indian Summer (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Infallible system (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Inventory (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Late riser (in Bits and Pieces) [x]
Love me (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Love song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker)
Lullaby (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Mama had a baby (in Moments Macabres) [x]
Men (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Minstrel's Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Chatterton)
Miss Jane (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Lockman) [x]
Miss Lucy (Donizetti) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
Music, when soft voices die (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER FRE
Now at liberty (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Old Roger (in Moments Macabres) [x]
One perfect rose (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker)
Patient lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Penny scale (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Perplexed lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Pierrot (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Poor old lady (Moussorgsky) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
Prelude (in Bagatelles)
Prelude (in Moments Macabres)
Priest and penitent (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: G. G. Belli) [x]
Pure (in Bagatelles) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Rejected lover (in Lovers) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) [x]
Renunciation (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Roundelay (in Bagatelles) (Text: John Dryden)
She's somewhere in the sunlight strong (in Four Songs) (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
Slow, slow, fresh fount (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Ben Jonson)
Social note (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
Somebody's song (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Song of one of the girls (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Song of perfect propriety (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Spanish dancer (de Falla) (in Parodies : As some children's jump-rope rhymes might have been set to music by the masters) [x]
Strephon and Chloe (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: Charles Hanbury Williams, Sir, KB)
Sylvia and Cupid (in Bawd Ballads) (Text: John Dryden)
Symptom recital (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The blossom (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: William Blake)
The choice (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
The daisies (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens) SPA
The daisy (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The false friends (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
The fly (in Bagatelles) (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
The hawk (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens)
The kiss (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The look (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The oocuck (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Justin Richardson) *
The owl (in Bagatelles) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
The pigtail (in Bagatelles) (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
The rain (in Bits and Pieces) [x]
The rivals (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens)
The rose in the wind (in The Rivals) (Text: James Stephens) *
The song for Colin (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The trusting heart (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
The walk (in Moments Macabres) [x]
The wayfarer (in First Person Feminine) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
There was a king (in Bits and Pieces) [x]
They part (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Tom (in Bagatelles) (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
Ultimatum (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*
Waste (in Bits and Pieces) (Text: Harry Graham) [x]
Weep you no more, sad fountains (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: 16^th century) GER
Why does (s)he so long delay? (in Airs and Fancies) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Why Johnny hates school (in A Little Light Music) (Text: Seymour Barab) [x]*
Wisdom (in Songs of Perfect Propriety) (Text: Dorothy Parker) [x]*

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.