Composer: Miriam Gideon (1906-1996)

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4 Epitaphs

no. 1. Epitaph For A Wag In Mauchline (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. Epitaph on Wee Johnnie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. Epitaph on the Author (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice (Text: Robert Burns)

Creature to Creature

no. 1. The fly (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
no. 2. Spider (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
no. 3. Snake (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
no. 4. Firefly (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
no. 5. Hoot-Owl (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
no. 6. Interlude
no. 7. L'envoi (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *

Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson

no. 1. An Ode for Ben Jonson (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. To Thomas Moore (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
no. 3. Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)

Questions on Nature

no. 1. How the earth moves (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]*
no. 2. Why the planets (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
no. 3. Whence the winds arise (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
no. 4. Whether the stars fall (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
no. 5. Whether beasts have souls (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
no. 6. Why we hear echoes (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
no. 7. Why joy is the cause of weeping (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]

Rhymes from the Hill

no. 1. Bundeslied der Galgenbrüder (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 2. Galgenkindes Wiegenlied (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 3. Die Korfsche Uhr (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 4. Palmströms Uhr (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
no. 5. Der Seufzer (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG

Songs of Voyage

no. 1. The nightingale unheard (Text: Josephine Preston Peabody)
no. 2. Farewell Tablet to Agathocles (Text: Florence Wilkinson)

Sonnets from Shakespeare

no. 1. Sonnet VIII: Music to Hear (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS HUN ITA FRE
no. 2. Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 3. Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 4. Sonnet LXXI: No longer mourn for me (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
no. 5. Sonnet CXXIII: No, Time, thou shalt not boast (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA

Spirit above the Dust

no. 1. Prologue (Text: Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet) [x]
no. 2. Theory of Poetry (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. 3. The two trees (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. 4. The linden branch (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
no. 5. Black boy (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
no. 6. My Caliban creature (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
no. 7. The snow fall (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*

Steeds of Darkness

no. 1. Sovra un destrier dalle fumanti frogie (Text: Felix Pick) * ENG
no. 2. I hear the last shudder of your flesh (Text: Eugene Mahon) *

The condemned playground

no. 1. Pyrrha (Text: John Milton after Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) ENG LAT
no. 2. Hiroshima (Text: Gary Spokes) [x]
no. 3. The Litanies of Satan

The Resounding Lyre

no. 1. Mutterbildniss (Text: F. Ewen) [x]
no. 2. Wähebuf und Nichtenvint (Text: Süß von Trimpberg) [x]
no. 3. Hallelujah (Text: Heinrich Heine)

The shooting starres attend thee

no. 1. The shooting starres attend thee (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. Give me more love, or more disdaine (Text: Thomas Carew)
no. 3. Interlude
no. 4. Know, Celia, since thou art so proud (Text: Thomas Carew)
no. 5. Around my neck an amulet (Text: Samuel Menashe) *

Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview"

no. 1. Gone in good sooth you are (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 2. Night is my sister, and how deep in love (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 3. Moon, that against the lintel of the west (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *

Wing'd Hour

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. Silent noon (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
no. 3. My heart is like a singing bird (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 4. Interlude
no. 5. Autumn (Text: Walter de la Mare)

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

Abendlied (Text: Matthias Claudius) DUT ENG ITA
Ach du, um die die Blumen sich verliebt (Text: Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
An Ode for Ben Jonson (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Around my neck an amulet (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Samuel Menashe) *
Autumn (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire) (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream (Text: Trumbull Stickney)
Black boy (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
Böhmischer Krystall (Text: Hans Heilmann) ENG
Bundeslied der Galgenbrüder (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
Der Seufzer (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
Die Korfsche Uhr (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
Epitaph For A Wag In Mauchline (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
Epitaph on the Author (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
Epitaph on Wee Johnnie (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
Farewell Tablet to Agathocles (in Songs of Voyage) (Text: Florence Wilkinson)
Firefly (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
Galgenkindes Wiegenlied (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
Gather ye rosebuds (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
Give me more love, or more disdaine (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Thomas Carew)
Gone in good sooth you are (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Hallelujah (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
Hiroshima (in The condemned playground) (Text: Gary Spokes) [x]
Hoot-Owl (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
How the earth moves (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]*
I hear the last shudder of your flesh (in Steeds of Darkness) (Text: Eugene Mahon) *
Interlude (in The shooting starres attend thee)
Interlude (in Creature to Creature)
Interlude (in Wing'd Hour)
Know, Celia, since thou art so proud (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Thomas Carew)
La pluie au matin (Text: Pierre Louys) ENG
Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
L'envoi (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
Les elfes (Text: Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle)
Little ivory figures pulled with string (Text: Amy Lowell)
Lockung (Text: Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff) ENG ITA FRE
Mixco (Text: Miguel Ángel Asturias) *
Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice (in 4 Epitaphs) (Text: Robert Burns)
Moon, that against the lintel of the west (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Mutterbildniss (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: F. Ewen) [x]
My Caliban creature (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Norman Rosten) [x]*
My heart is like a singing bird (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Night is my sister, and how deep in love (in Three Sonnets from "Fatal Interview") (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Palmströms Uhr (in Rhymes from the Hill) (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
Prelude (in Wing'd Hour)
Prologue (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet) [x]
Pyrrha (in The condemned playground) (Text: John Milton after Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) ENG LAT
She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce)
Silent noon (in Wing'd Hour) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Slow, slow, fresh fount (Text: Ben Jonson)
Slumber-Song (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
Snake (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
Sonnet VIII: Music to Hear (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS HUN ITA FRE
Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Sonnet LXXI: No longer mourn for me (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
Sonnet CXXIII: No, Time, thou shalt not boast (in Sonnets from Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Sovra un destrier dalle fumanti frogie (in Steeds of Darkness) (Text: Felix Pick) * ENG
Spider (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
Sweet Western Wind (Text: Robert Herrick)
The fly (in Creature to Creature) (Text: Nancy Cardozo) *
The linden branch (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
The Litanies of Satan [multi-text setting]
The nightingale unheard (in Songs of Voyage) (Text: Josephine Preston Peabody)
The shooting starres attend thee (in The shooting starres attend thee) (Text: Robert Herrick)
The snow fall (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
The Too-Late Born (Text: Archibald MacLeish) *
The two trees (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
Theory of Poetry (in Spirit above the Dust) (Text: Archibald MacLeish) [x]*
To Music (Text: Robert Herrick)
To Thomas Moore (in Poet to Poet: an Ode to Ben Jonson) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder (Text: Heinrich Heine) SPA RUS ENG
Wähebuf und Nichtenvint (in The Resounding Lyre) (Text: Süß von Trimpberg) [x]
Whence the winds arise (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
Whether beasts have souls (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
Whether the stars fall (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
Why joy is the cause of weeping (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
Why the planets (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]
Why we hear echoes (in Questions on Nature) (Text: after Adelard of Bath) [x]

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