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Composer: William Bolcom (1938-)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Morning and Evening Poems

no. 1. To Morning (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. I heard an angel singing (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. I fear'd the fury of my wind (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. I thought love lived in the hot sunshine (Text: William Blake)

Songs of Experience, Volume One

no. 1. Introduction
no. 2. Hear the Voice of the Bard (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Interlude
no. 4. Earth's answer (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE
no. 7. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 8. The little girl lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. In the Southern Clime (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. The little girl found (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. The clod and the pebble (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 12. The little vagabond (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 14. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 15. The angel (Text: William Blake)
no. 16. The sick rose (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
no. 17. To Tirzah (Text: William Blake)

Songs of Experience, Volume Two

no. 1. The Voice of the Ancient Bard (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. My pretty rose tree (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Ah! Sun-flower! (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 4. The lily (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Introduction to Part 5
no. 6. The Garden of Love (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. A Little Boy Lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. A little girl lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. Infant sorrow (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Vocalise
no. 11. London (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 12. The school boy (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 14. The Human Abstract (Text: William Blake)
no. 15. Interlude -- Voces Clamandae
no. 16. A divine image (Text: William Blake)

Songs of Innocence

no. 1. Introduction (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 2. The echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
no. 3. The lamb (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 6. The little black boy (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 8. Spring (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. A Cradle Song (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 11. Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. Interlude
no. 14. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake)
no. 15. The divine image (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 16. Nocturne
no. 17. Night (Text: William Blake)
no. 18. A Dream (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 19. On Another's Sorrow (Text: William Blake)
no. 20. The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
no. 21. The little boy found (Text: William Blake)
no. 22. Coda

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

A Cradle Song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
A divine image (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
A Dream (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
A Little Boy Lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
A little girl lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
A poison tree (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Ah! Sun-flower! (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Coda (in Songs of Innocence)
Earth's answer (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
First meditation (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Give way, ye gates (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Hear the Voice of the Bard (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Holy Thursday (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Holy Thursday (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
I fear'd the fury of my wind (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
I heard an angel singing (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
I knew a woman (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
I thought love lived in the hot sunshine (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
In the Southern Clime (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Infant Joy (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Infant sorrow (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
Interlude (in Songs of Innocence)
Interlude (in Songs of Experience, Volume One)
Interlude -- Voces Clamandae (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)
Introduction (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Introduction (in Songs of Experience, Volume One)
Introduction to Part 5 (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)
Laughing song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
London (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) FRE
My pretty rose tree (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
Never more will the wind (Text: Hilda Doolittle) *
Night (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Nocturne (in Songs of Innocence)
Nurse's song (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Nurse's song (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
On Another's Sorrow (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
Open house (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Spring (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The angel (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The blossom (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The chimney sweeper (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake) FRE
The chimney sweeper (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The clod and the pebble (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) RUS
The divine image (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
The echoing green (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) DUT
The fly (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE
The Garden of Love (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The Human Abstract (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The lamb (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
The lily (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The little black boy (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little boy found (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little boy lost (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The little girl found (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The little girl lost (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The little vagabond (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
The school boy (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The shepherd (in Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
The sick rose (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
The sick rose (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
The tyger (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
The Voice of the Ancient Bard (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two) (Text: William Blake)
The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
To Morning (in Morning and Evening Poems) (Text: William Blake)
To Tirzah (in Songs of Experience, Volume One) (Text: William Blake)
Toothbrush Time (Text: Arnold Weinstein) *
Vocalise (in Songs of Experience, Volume Two)

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* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.