Composer: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Despite and still , op. 41

no. 1. A last song (Text: Robert Graves) *
no. 2. My lizard (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 3. In the wilderness (Text: Robert Graves)
no. 4. Solitary hotel (Text: James Joyce) *
no. 5. Despite and still (Text: Robert Graves) *

Hermit songs , op. 29

no. 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 2. Church bell at night (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 3. Saint Ita's vision (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) *
no. 4. The heavenly banquet (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after St. Brigid) *
no. 5. The crucifixion (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 6. Sea-snatch (Text: Kenneth Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 7. Promiscuity (Text: Kenneth Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 8. The monk and his cat (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 9. The praises of God (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
no. 10. The desire for hermitage (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *

Mélodies passagères (Fleeting songs), op. 27

no. 1. Puisque tout passe (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
no. 2. Un cygne (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
no. 3. Tombeau dans un parc (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
no. 4. Le clocher chante (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
no. 5. Départ (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG

Reincarnations , op. 16

no. 1. Mary Hynes (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
no. 2. Anthony O'Daly (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
no. 3. The coolin (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)

Three Songs , op. 45

no. 1. Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
no. 2. A green lowland of pianos (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) *
no. 3. O boundless, boundless evening (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA

Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra" , op. 40

no. 1. On the death of Antony (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 2. On the death of Cleopatra (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

Vanessa [opera]

no. ?. Under the willow tree (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
no. ?. Must the winter come so soon? (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *

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

A green lowland of pianos, op. 45 no. 2 (in Three Songs) (Text: Czesław Miłosz after Jerzy Harasymowicz) *
A last song, op. 41 no. 1 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves) *
A nun takes the veil, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 1 (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
A slumber song of the Madonna (Text: Alfred Noyes)
A stopwatch and an ordnance map, op. 15 (Text: Stephen Spender) [x]*
Agnus Dei, op. 11 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG ITA
Anthony O'Daly, op. 16 no. 2 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
At Saint Patrick's Purgatory, op. 29 no. 1 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
Bessie Bobtail, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: James Stephens)
Church bell at night, op. 29 no. 2 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
Départ, op. 27 no. 5 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
Despite and still, op. 41 no. 5 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves) *
Dover Beach, op. 3 (Text: Matthew Arnold) GER
Easter Chorale (Text: Pack Browning)
God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
I hear an army, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
In the dark pine‑wood (Text: James Joyce) FRE
In the wilderness, op. 41 no. 3 (in Despite and still) (Text: Robert Graves)
Knoxville, Summer of 1915, op. 24 (Text: James Agee) *
Le clocher chante, op. 27 no. 4 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
Let down the bars, O Death, op. 8 no. 2 (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Mary Hynes, op. 16 no. 1 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
Monks and raisins, op. 18 (Two songs) no. 2 (Text: José Garcia Villa) *
Must the winter come so soon? (in Vanessa) (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
My lizard, op. 41 no. 2 (in Despite and still) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Night wanderers (Text: William Henry Davies)
Nocturne, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 4 (Text: Frederic Prokosch) *
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose, op. 45 no. 1 (in Three Songs) (Text: James Joyce after Gottfried Keller) FRE
Nuvoletta, op. 25 (Text: James Joyce) *
O boundless, boundless evening, op. 45 no. 3 (in Three Songs) (Text: Christopher Middleton after Georg Heym) * ITA
On the death of Antony, op. 40 no. 1 (in Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra") (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
On the death of Cleopatra, op. 40 no. 2 (in Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra") (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Promiscuity, op. 29 no. 7 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Kenneth Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Puisque tout passe, op. 27 no. 1 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
Rain has fallen, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
Saint Ita's vision, op. 29 no. 3 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Chester Kallman after St. Ita) *
Sea-snatch, op. 29 no. 6 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Kenneth Jackson after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
Sleep now, op. 10 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
Solitary hotel, op. 41 no. 4 (in Despite and still) (Text: James Joyce) *
Sure on this shining night, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 3 (Text: James Agee) *
The coolin, op. 16 no. 3 (in Reincarnations) (Text: James Stephens after Antoine Ó Raifteirí)
The crucifixion, op. 29 no. 5 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Howard Mumford Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
The daisies, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: James Stephens) SPA
The desire for hermitage, op. 29 no. 10 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
The heavenly banquet, op. 29 no. 4 (in Hermit songs) (Text: Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin after St. Brigid) *
The monk and his cat, op. 29 no. 8 (in Hermit songs) (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
The praises of God, op. 29 no. 9 (in Hermit songs) (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) *
The queen's face on the summery coin, op. 18 (Two songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Horan) *
The secrets of the old, op. 13 (Four songs for voice and piano) no. 2 (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The Virgin Martyrs, op. 8 no. 1 (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Siegbert of Gembloux)
To be sung on the water, op. 42 no. 2 (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]*
Tombeau dans un parc, op. 27 no. 3 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
Twelfth Night, op. 42 no. 1 (Text: Laurie Lee) [x]*
Un cygne, op. 27 no. 2 (in Mélodies passagères) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG GER
Under the willow tree (in Vanessa) (Text: Gian Carlo Menotti) *
With rue my heart is laden, op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

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