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Composer: Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908)

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Eight Love Songs, op. 47

no. 1. The robin sings in the apple tree (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Midsummer lullaby (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 3. Folk song (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 4. Confidence (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 5. The west-wind croons in the cedar-trees (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 6. In the woods (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG FRE POL
no. 7. The sea (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 8. Through the meadow (Text: William Dean Howells)

Four Songs, op. 56

no. 1. Long ago sweetheart mine (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. The Swan bent low to the Lily (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. A maid sings light, and a maid sings low (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 4. As the gloaming shadows creep (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

Six Love Songs, op. 40

no. 1. Sweet blue-eyed maid (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 2. Sweetheart tell me (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 3. Thy beaming eyes (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 4. For sweet love's sake (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 5. O lovely rose (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 6. I ask but this (Text: William Henry Gardner)

Three Songs, op. 60

no. 1. Tyrant Love (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Fair Springtide (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. To the Golden Rod (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

Three Songs, op. 58 GER

no. 1. Constancy (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 2. Sunrise (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 3. Merry Maiden Spring (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER

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

Cradle hymn (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG FRE
The eagle (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER

op. 9. Two old songs
no. 2. Slumber song (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

op. 11. Drei Lieder
no. 1. Mein Liebchen (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE FIN
no. 2. Du liebst mich nicht (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
no. 3. Oben, wo die Sterne glühen (Text: Heinrich Heine)

op. 12. Zwei Lieder
no. 1. Nachtlied (Text: Emanuel von Geibel) ENG FRE
no. 2. Das Rosenband (Text: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock) DUT SPA ENG ITA

op. 26. From an old garden (six songs)
no. 1. The pansy (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) GER
no. 2. The myrtle (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) GER
no. 3. The clover (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
no. 4. The yellow daisy (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT GER
no. 5. The blue-bell (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) DUT
no. 6. The mignonette (Text: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland) [x]

op. 27. Drei Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor (Three part-songs for men's chorus)
no. 1. In the starry sky above us (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Heinrich Heine) [x]
no. 1. Oben, wo die Sterne glühen (Text: Heinrich Heine)
no. 2. Springtime (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [x] ENG
no. 2. Schweizerlied (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 3. The fisher-boy (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell after Friedrich von Schiller) [x] SPA ENG
no. 3. Der Fischerknabe (Text: Friedrich von Schiller) SPA ENG

op. 40. Six Love Songs
no. 1. Sweet blue-eyed maid (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 2. Sweetheart tell me (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 3. Thy beaming eyes (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 4. For sweet love's sake (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 5. O lovely rose (Text: William Henry Gardner)
no. 6. I ask but this (Text: William Henry Gardner)

op. 47. Eight Love Songs
no. 1. The robin sings in the apple tree (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Midsummer lullaby (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 3. Folk song (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 4. Confidence (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 5. The west-wind croons in the cedar-trees (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 6. In the woods (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG FRE POL
no. 7. The sea (Text: William Dean Howells)
no. 8. Through the meadow (Text: William Dean Howells)

op. 56. Four Songs
no. 1. Long ago sweetheart mine (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. The Swan bent low to the Lily (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. A maid sings light, and a maid sings low (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 4. As the gloaming shadows creep (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

op. 58. Three Songs GER
no. 1. Constancy (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 2. Sunrise (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER
no. 3. Merry Maiden Spring (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell) GER

op. 60. Three Songs
no. 1. Tyrant Love (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 2. Fair Springtide (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)
no. 3. To the Golden Rod (Text: Edward Alexander MacDowell)

[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.