Lyric Companion
Composer

A. Smith

40 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 40

Daniel Boone sings to the night sky

2012
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Your sunburned fingers that thrum my enthralled heart

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Oh, to be a constellation together with you!

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I kiss your hair, dark with olives and pomegranates and the smoke of campfires

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The headlong rush of star to star

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Hide with me here a little longer in this cradling manger

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For the color of my mother

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Ode To The North-East Wind

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Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst

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To my Beloved Narcissist

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To My Dying Father, Fifty-six Years Later

2015·the-other-side-of-the-door-five-aspects-of-love
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Training wheels

2015·the-other-side-of-the-door-five-aspects-of-love
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Puppies on the Other Side of the Door

2015·the-other-side-of-the-door-five-aspects-of-love
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The Song of the Little Baltung

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Baudelaire’s invalid flowers

2013·to-the-muse
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If every ear (Mondnacht)

2013·to-the-muse
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Some enchanted evening

2013·to-the-muse
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Making out of life what we want it to be

2013·to-the-muse
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Francis Poulenc’s Thank-you Note to Louise de Vilmorin

2013·to-the-muse
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Prologue to the journal

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There's a lady -- Monday, April 1

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Considerable excitement -- Saturday, April 6

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The face of the earth -- Tuesday, May 14

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Buffalo chase -- Wednesday, May 22

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The Sioux tribe and the "White Squaw" -- Monday, June 3

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Lost boy -- Saturday, July 27

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Upon them she depended -- Tuesday, August 27

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The mountain -- Friday, August 30

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Here we are -- Saturday, September 7

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Epilogue to the journal

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Stationed in Europe

2012·vignettes-letters-from-george-to-evelyn-from-the-private-papers-of-a-world-war-ii-bride
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Crossing the English Channel --: Recitativo

2012·vignettes-letters-from-george-to-evelyn-from-the-private-papers-of-a-world-war-ii-bride
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France, having survived the Normandy Invasion, D-Day:

2012·vignettes-letters-from-george-to-evelyn-from-the-private-papers-of-a-world-war-ii-bride
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Telegram -- Schism

2012·vignettes-letters-from-george-to-evelyn-from-the-private-papers-of-a-world-war-ii-bride
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Epilogue

2012·vignettes-letters-from-george-to-evelyn-from-the-private-papers-of-a-world-war-ii-bride
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Heart windows

2013·windows-five-songs-of-love
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Kaleidoscope

2013·windows-five-songs-of-love
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Lapiz lazuli

2013·windows-five-songs-of-love
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I sing you to sleep - Lullaby

2013·windows-five-songs-of-love
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When you carry me to the stars

2013·windows-five-songs-of-love
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Daniel Boone sings to the night sky

2012
EN

Your sunburned fingers that thrum my enthralled heart

five-psalms-of-jonathan-to-david
EN

Oh, to be a constellation together with you!

five-psalms-of-jonathan-to-david
EN

I kiss your hair, dark with olives and pomegranates and the smoke of campfires

five-psalms-of-jonathan-to-david
EN

The headlong rush of star to star

five-psalms-of-jonathan-to-david
EN

Hide with me here a little longer in this cradling manger

five-psalms-of-jonathan-to-david
EN

For the color of my mother

EN

Ode To The North-East Wind

EN