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Composer: Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965)

Listing of musical settings by catalog number [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Day, Evening, Night, Morning

no. 1. Day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 2. Evening (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 3. Night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 4. Morning (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Mother Goose Rhymes, L. 538

no. 1. Curly-Locks (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Three wise men (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. Goosey (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Tommy Trot (Text: Volkslieder )

Three Anti-Modernist Songs

no. 1. A sharp, where you'd expect a natural
no. 2. Hark! from the pit a fearsome sound
no. 3. Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"?

Three Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes, L. 935

no. 1. Demand (Text: Langston Hughes) *
no. 2. Moonlight Night: Carmel (Text: Langston Hughes) *
no. 3. Fulfillment (Text: Langston Hughes) *

Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum

no. 1. Crane (Text: Padraic Colum) *
no. 2. I heard in the night (Text: Padraic Colum) *
no. 3. Night-Fliers (Text: Padraic Colum) *

Two Songs, L. 492

no. 1. Sunset (Text: Catherine Riegger)
no. 2. Rest (Text: Catherine Riegger)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in catalog order (without catalog first, alphabetic)

A sharp, where you'd expect a natural (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs)
Day (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Evening (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Fire and ice (Text: Robert Frost)
Hark! from the pit a fearsome sound (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs)
Morning (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Night (in Day, Evening, Night, Morning) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)
Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"? (in Three Anti-Modernist Songs)

L. 152. St. Agnes' Morning (Text: Maxwell Anderson)
L. 175. The Dream-Bridge (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
L. 228. Agnus Og (The Spirit of Youth) (Text: John Osborne Varian)
L. 244. The Morning Pool (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
L. 250. April (Text: Ezra Pound) *
L. 330. Song in the songless (Text: George Meredith)
L. 358. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER FRE
L. 387. Manaunaun's Birthing (Text: John Osborne Varian)
L. 400. Where she lies (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
L. 477. How old is song (Text: Harry Cowell)
L. 492 no. 1. Sunset (Text: Catherine Riegger)
L. 492 no. 2. Rest (Text: Catherine Riegger)
L. 538 no. 1. Curly-Locks (Text: Volkslieder )
L. 538 no. 2. Three wise men (Text: Volkslieder )
L. 538 no. 3. Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (Text: Volkslieder )
L. 538 no. 4. Goosey (Text: Volkslieder )
L. 538 no. 5. Tommy Trot (Text: Volkslieder )
L. 604. Mice lament (Text: Ella Viola Grainger) *
L. 694. Daybreak (Text: William Blake) RUS
L. 695. The donkey (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
L. 783. The little black boy (Text: William Blake)
L. 820. Because the Cat (Text: Barbara Allan Davis) *
L. 825. Crane (Text: Padraic Colum) *
L. 826. I heard in the night (Text: Padraic Colum) *
L. 827. Night-Fliers (Text: Padraic Colum) *
L. 864. Spring Pools (Text: Robert Frost) *
L. 891. Music I Heard (Text: Conrad Aiken)
L. 910. Firelight and Lamp (Text: Gene Baro) *
L. 935 no. 1. Demand (Text: Langston Hughes) *
L. 935 no. 2. Moonlight Night: Carmel (Text: Langston Hughes) *
L. 935 no. 3. Fulfillment (Text: Langston Hughes) *

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