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Composer: Kirke Mechem (1925-)

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

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Five Centuries of Spring , op. 24

no. 1. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 2. From you have I been absent (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 3. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
no. 4. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 5. Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Goodbye, Farewell, and Adieu , op. 33

no. 2. Parting, without a sequel (Text: John Crowe Ransom) [x]*
no. 3. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER

The Winds of May

no. ?. Let it be forgotten (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
no. ?. I shall not care (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. ?. Over the roofs (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. ?. Song (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. ?. The tune (Text: Sara Teasdale)

To an Absent Love

no. 1. Dear Husband (Text: Harriet Newby)
no. 2. A Farewell (Text: Harriet Monroe)
no. 3. Fair Robin I Love (Text: John Dryden)
no. 4. Epilogue ("Debts") (Text: Jessie B. Rittenhouse) *

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

A Farewell (in To an Absent Love) (Text: Harriet Monroe)
Christmas Carol, op. 35 no. 1 (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Dear Husband (in To an Absent Love) (Text: Harriet Newby)
Epilogue ("Debts") (in To an Absent Love) (Text: Jessie B. Rittenhouse) *
Fair Robin I Love (in To an Absent Love) (Text: John Dryden)
From you have I been absent, op. 24 no. 2 (in Five Centuries of Spring) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
I shall not care (in The Winds of May) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Laughing song, op. 24 no. 3 (in Five Centuries of Spring) (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
Let it be forgotten, op. 33 no. 3 (in Goodbye, Farewell, and Adieu) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
Let it be forgotten (in The Winds of May) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
Loveliest of trees, op. 24 no. 4 (in Five Centuries of Spring) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Over the roofs (in The Winds of May) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Parting, without a sequel, op. 33 no. 2 (in Goodbye, Farewell, and Adieu) (Text: John Crowe Ransom) [x]*
Song (in The Winds of May) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Spring, op. 24 no. 1 (in Five Centuries of Spring) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Spring, op. 24 no. 5 (in Five Centuries of Spring) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The tune (in The Winds of May) (Text: Sara Teasdale)