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Composer: William Mayer (1925-)

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

Website: http://www.williammayer-composer.com/

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 Death in the Family [opera]

no. ?. Butterfly aria (Text: William Mayer) *
no. ?. How far we all come away from ourselves (Text: William Mayer) *

Eight Miniatures

no. ?. Deeply down (Text: Elizabeth Aleinikoff)
no. ?. Land of dead dreams (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. ?. Prophetic soul (Text: Dorothy Parker)
no. ?. Isn't there some mistake? (Text: William Mayer)
no. ?. "... For no man" (Text: William Mayer)

Enter Ariel

no. ?. hist whist (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
no. ?. Flotsam (Text: Langston Hughes) *

Four Madrigals

no. 1. The passionate shepherd to his love (Text: Christopher Marlowe) GER
no. 2. The nymph's reply to the passionate shepherd (Text: Sir Walter Raleigh)
no. 3. Corinna's going a-Maying (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) GER

Passage

no. ?. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
no. ?. Limited (Text: Carl Sandburg)

Two News Items

no. 1. Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (a mélange of clichés) (Text: William Mayer) *
no. 2. Distraught soprano undergoes unfortunate transformation (Text: William Mayer) *

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

Ae fond kiss (Text: Robert Burns)
Butterfly aria (in A Death in the Family) (Text: William Mayer) *
Corinna's going a-Maying (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Deeply down (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Elizabeth Aleinikoff)
Distraught soprano undergoes unfortunate transformation (in Two News Items) (Text: William Mayer) *
Dream variations (Text: Langston Hughes) *
Fern Hill (Text: Dylan Thomas) *
First song (Text: Galway Kinnell) *
Flotsam (in Enter Ariel) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
"... For no man" (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: William Mayer)
Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (a mélange of clichés) (in Two News Items) (Text: William Mayer) *
hist whist (in Enter Ariel) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
How far we all come away from ourselves (in A Death in the Family) (Text: William Mayer) *
Isn't there some mistake? (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: William Mayer)
Khartoum (Text: William Mayer) *
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats) ITA GER FRE
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats) ITA GER FRE
Land of dead dreams (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
Limited (in Passage) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Lover's lament (Text: William Mayer) [x]*
Prophetic soul (in Eight Miniatures) (Text: Dorothy Parker)
That purple bird (Text: William Mayer) [x]*
The nymph's reply to the passionate shepherd (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Sir Walter Raleigh)
The passionate shepherd to his love (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Christopher Marlowe) GER
To Electra (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
What lips my lips have kissed (in Passage) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER