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Composer: Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Old American Songs, First Set

no. 1. The boatmen's dance (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
no. 2. The dodger (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Long time ago (Text: Volkslieder ) ITA CHI
no. 4. Simple gifts (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
no. 5. I bought me a cat (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI

Old American Songs, Second Set

no. 1. The little horses (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Zion's walls
no. 3. The golden willow tree (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. At the river (Text: Robert Lowry) CHI
no. 5. Ching-a-ring chaw (Text: Volkslieder )

The Tender Land [opera]

no. ?. Laurie's song (Text: Erik Johns) *

Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (Dodici poesie di Emily Dickinson)

no. 1. Nature, the gentlest mother (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 2. There came a wind like a bugle (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 3. Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER
no. 4. The world feels dusty (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA CHI FRE GER
no. 5. Heart, we will forget him (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 6. Dear March, come in! (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 7. Sleep is supposed to be (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 8. When they come back (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 9. I felt a funeral in my brain (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER
no. 10. I've heard an organ talk sometimes (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 11. Going to Heaven! (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 12. The chariot (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER

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

A summer vacation (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
Alone (Text: E. Powys Mathers after John Duncan)
An Immorality (Text: Ezra Pound)
At the river (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Robert Lowry) CHI
Ching-a-ring chaw (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
Dear March, come in! (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Dirge in woods (Text: George Meredith) GER
Going to Heaven! (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Heart, we will forget him (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
I bought me a cat (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
I felt a funeral in my brain (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER
Into the streets May First (Text: Alfred Hayes) *
I've heard an organ talk sometimes (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Laurie's song (in The Tender Land) (Text: Erik Johns) *
Long time ago (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) ITA CHI
My heart is in the East (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
Nature, the gentlest mother (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Night (Text: Aaron Schaffer)
Pastorale (Text: E. Powys Mathers)
Poet's song (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Simple gifts (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
Sleep is supposed to be (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
The boatmen's dance (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder ) CHI
The chariot (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER
The dodger (in Old American Songs, First Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
The golden willow tree (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
The house on the hill (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
The little horses (in Old American Songs, Second Set) (Text: Volkslieder )
The world feels dusty (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA CHI FRE GER
There came a wind like a bugle (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
What do we plant? (Text: Henry Abbey)
When they come back (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE GER
Zion's walls (in Old American Songs, Second Set)

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