If you find the information here useful, please help support this project!

Composer: Jake Heggie (1961-)

[Also see this composer's texts set to music]

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

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War

no. 1. Prologue: Ships that pass in the night (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
no. 2. Africa (Text: Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson) *
no. 3. When Johnny comes marching home (Text: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore)
no. 4. Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis (Text: Annie Davis)
no. 5. Was my brother in the battle? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
no. 6. A great Hope fell (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 7. Glory (Text: Julia Ward Howe)
no. 8. America (Text: Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson) *

Before the Storm

no. 1. Before the storm (Text: Judyth Walker) [x]*
no. 2. It sounded as if the Streets were running (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
no. 4. The thin edge (Text: Dorothy Parker) *

Encountertenor

no. 1. Countertenor's conundrum (Text: John Hall) [x]*
no. 2. The trouble with trebles in trousers ... (Pitch can be a bitch!) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
no. 3. A gift to share (Text: John Hall) [x]*

Eve-Song

no. 1. My name (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 2. Even (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 3. Good (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 4. Listen (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 5. Snake (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 6. Woe to man (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 7. The wound (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
no. 8. The farm (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*

Facing forward/Looking back

no. 1. Motherwit (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
no. 2. Grounded (Text: Eugenia Zukerman) [x]*
no. 3. Hummingbird (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 4. Mother in the Mirror (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
no. 5. Facing forward (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*

Faith Disquiet

no. 1. "Why do I love" You, Sir? (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 2. What if I say I shall not wait! (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. If you were coming in the fall (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc

no. 1. Wanda Landowska (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 2. Pierre Bernac (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 3. Raymonde Linossier (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 4. Paul Éluard (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*

From Emily's Garden

no. 1. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 2. In lands I never saw (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. To make a prairie (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 4. It makes no difference abroad (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Here and Gone

no. 1. The farms of home (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 2. In praise of songs that die (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 3. Stars (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 4. The factory window song (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 5. In the morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 6. Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 7. The half-moon westers low (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

How Well I Knew the Light

no. 1. Ample make this bed (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
no. 2. The sun kept setting (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Natural Selection

no. 1. Creation (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
no. 2. Animal passion (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
no. 3. Alas! Alack! (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
no. 4. Indian Summer - Blue (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
no. 5. Connection (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*

Of Gods and Cats

no. 1. In the beginning (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
no. 2. Once upon a universe (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*

On the Road to Christmas

no. 1. The night is freezing fast (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 2. The car ride to Christmas (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
no. 3. Good King Merrily on high (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 4. I wonder as I wander (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE
no. 5. The Road to Bethlehem (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. And then the setting sun (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
no. 7. Christmas time of year (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*

Paper Wings

no. 1. Bedtime story (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
no. 2. Paper wings (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
no. 3. Mitten smitten (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
no. 4. A route to the sky (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*

Rise and Fall

no. 1. Water Stone (Noguchi) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 2. Incantation Bowl (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 3. Angels Wings (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 4. The Shaman (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*

Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia

no. 1. The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia's Song (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
no. 2. Women have loved before as I love now (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 3. Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 4. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children"

no. 1. Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 2. Euclid (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 3. The Haughty Snail-king (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 4. What the Rattlesnake Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 5. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 6. What the Scarecrow Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 7. What the Gray-winged Fairy Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 8. Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)

Statuesque

no. 1. Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 2. Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932 (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 3. Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 4. Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2 (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
no. 5. Winged Victory: We're through (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*

The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love

no. 1. Prelude: The Call - More is required (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
no. 2. I catch on fire (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
no. 3. The deepest desire (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
no. 4. Primary colors (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *

The Moon is a Mirror

no. 1. The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 2. What the Miner in the Desert Said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 3. The Old Horse in the City (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 4. What the Forester said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
no. 5. What the Snowman said (Text: Vachel Lindsay)

The Starry Night

no. 1. The starry night (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 2. Celestial locomotion (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
no. 3. Go thy great way! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 4. Reflection (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
no. 5. The sun kept setting (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 6. Touch (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
no. 7. I would not paint a picture (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Thoughts Unspoken

no. 1. A learning experience over coffee... (Text: John Hall) [x]*
no. 2. You enter my thoughts (Text: John Hall) [x]*
no. 3. To speak of love (Text: John Hall) [x]*
no. 4. Unspoken thoughts at bedtime (Text: John Hall) [x]*

Three Folk Songs

no. 1. Barb'ry Allen (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 2. He's gone away (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
no. 3. The leather-winged bat (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]

Times of Day

no. 1. The minuet (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 2. Simple (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
no. 3. The best time of the day (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*

Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke

no. 1. Portrait intérieure (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
no. 2. La porteuse de fleurs (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
no. 3. Epilogue: C'est pour t'avoir vue (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)

Winter Roses

no. 1. Prologue: Winter Roses (Text: Charlene Baldridge) *
no. 2. The wren (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
no. 3. The robin (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
no. 4. A hero (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]
no. 5. Sleeping (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
no. 6. To my Dad (Text: Frederica von Stade) *
no. 7. Sweet Light (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
no. 8. Epilogue: Late Fragment (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*

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

A gift to share (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
A great Hope fell (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
A hero (in Winter Roses) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]
A learning experience over coffee... (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
A route to the sky (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Africa (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson) *
Alas! Alack! (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
Alberto Giacommetti: Standing Woman #2 (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
All that I do (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
America (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson) *
Ample make this bed (in How Well I Knew the Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
And then the setting sun (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Angels Wings (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Animal passion (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
Anna Madrigal Remembers (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
As well as Jesus? (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
At last, to be identified! (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Away in a manger (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Barb'ry Allen (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Because I liked you better (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Bedtime story (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Before the storm (in Before the Storm) (Text: Judyth Walker) [x]*
Celestial locomotion (in The Starry Night) (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
Christmas time of year (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
Connection (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
Countertenor's conundrum (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
Creation (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
Epilogue: C'est pour t'avoir vue (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Epilogue: Late Fragment (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
Euclid (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
Even (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
Everyone sang (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
Facing forward (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
Glory (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Julia Ward Howe)
Go thy great way! (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Good (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
Good King Merrily on high (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Grounded (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Eugenia Zukerman) [x]*
Grow old along with me! (Text: Robert Browning)
Hapshetsut: The Divine Potter (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Henry Moore: Reclining Figure of Elmwood (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Here, where the Daisies fit my Head (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
He's gone away (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
Hummingbird (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
I catch on fire (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
I shall not live in vain (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA GER
I wonder as I wander (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE
I would not paint a picture (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
If you were coming in the fall (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
In lands I never saw (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
In praise of songs that die (in Here and Gone) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
In the beginning (in Of Gods and Cats) (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
In the morning (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Incantation Bowl (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Indian Summer - Blue (in Natural Selection) (Text: Gini Savage) [x]*
It makes no difference abroad (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
It sounded as if the Streets were running (in Before the Storm) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
La porteuse de fleurs (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Annie Davis)
Listen (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
Mitten smitten (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Mother in the Mirror (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Armistead Jones Maupin, jr.) [x]*
Motherwit (in Facing forward/Looking back) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
My Grandmother's love letters (Text: Hart Crane) [x]
My name (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
My true love hath my heart (Text: Sir Philip Sidney)
Not in a silver casket cool with pearls (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Once upon a universe (in Of Gods and Cats) (Text: Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) [x]*
Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1932 (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Paper wings (in Paper Wings) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Patterns (Text: Amy Lowell)
Paul Éluard (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Pierre Bernac (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Portrait intérieure (in Trois poèmes intérieurs de Rainer Maria Rilke) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
Prelude: The Call - More is required (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
Primary colors (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
Prologue: Ships that pass in the night (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Prologue: Winter Roses (in Winter Roses) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) *
Raymonde Linossier (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Reflection (in The Starry Night) (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Simple (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
Sleeping (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
Snake (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
Sophie's Song (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
Spring (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Stars (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Sweet Light (in Winter Roses) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) *
The best time of the day (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
The car ride to Christmas (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Frederica von Stade) [x]*
The deepest desire (in The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love) (Text: Helen Prejean, Sister) *
The factory window song (in Here and Gone) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
The farm (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
The farms of home (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
The half-moon westers low (in Here and Gone) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
The Haughty Snail-king (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
The leather-winged bat (in Three Folk Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
The minuet (in Times of Day) (Text: Raymond Clevie Carver, jr.) [x]*
The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
The night is freezing fast (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
The Old Horse in the City (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
The Road to Bethlehem (in On the Road to Christmas) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The robin (in Winter Roses) (Text: Emily Dickinson) [x]
The Shaman (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
The Spring is Arisen; Ophelia's Song (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
The starry night (in The Starry Night) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
The Strength of the Lonely (What the Mendicant Said) (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
The sun kept setting (in How Well I Knew the Light) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The sun kept setting (in The Starry Night) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The thin edge (in Before the Storm) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
The trouble with trebles in trousers ... (Pitch can be a bitch!) (in Encountertenor) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
The wound (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
The wren (in Winter Roses) (Text: Charlene Baldridge) [x]*
To make a prairie (in From Emily's Garden) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
To my Dad (in Winter Roses) (Text: Frederica von Stade) *
To say before going to sleep (Text: Albert Ernest Flemming after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
To speak of love (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
Touch (in The Starry Night) (Text: after Vincent Willem van Gogh) [x]*
Unspoken thoughts at bedtime (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*
Vanity (Blah Blah Me) (Text: Jake Heggie) [x]*
Wanda Landowska (in Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Was my brother in the battle? (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
Water Stone (Noguchi) (in Rise and Fall) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
What if I say I shall not wait! (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
What lips my lips have kissed (in Before the Storm) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
What the Forester said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
What the Gray-winged Fairy Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
What the Miner in the Desert Said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
What the Rattlesnake Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
What the Scarecrow Said (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
What the Snowman said (in The Moon is a Mirror) (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
When Johnny comes marching home (in A Great Hope Fell: Songs from Civil War) (Text: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore)
White in the moon (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
"Why do I love" You, Sir? (in Faith Disquiet) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Winged Victory: We're through (in Statuesque) (Text: Gene Scheer) [x]*
Woe to man (in Eve-Song) (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
Women have loved before as I love now (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children) (in Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children") (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
You enter my thoughts (in Thoughts Unspoken) (Text: John Hall) [x]*

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.