Lyric Companion
Composer

Dominick Argento

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

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LIEDER · 60

Sleep

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Winter

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The Devon maid

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In praise of Apollo

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On visiting Oxford

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A party of lovers at tea

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Sharing Eve's apple

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There was a naughty boy

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Two or three posies

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Casa Guidi

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The Italian Cook and the English Maid

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Robert Browning

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The Death of Mr. Barrett

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Domesticity

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Preces : Phos Hilaron

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Psalm 102

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The lesson

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Sermon

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Canticle: Nunc Dimittis

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Prayer/Lullaby

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Anthem

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The Diary (April, 1919)

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Anxiety (October, 1920)

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Fancy (February, 1927)

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Hardy's Funeral (January, 1928)

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Rome (May, 1935)

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War (June, 1940)

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Parents (December, 1940)

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Last Entry (March, 1941)

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I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask how that can be possible

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Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love

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Greetings, miss, with nose not small

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My woman says she will be no one's but mine

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Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya

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You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love

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Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness!

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Frédéric Chopin to a friend

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W A Mozart to his father

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Franz Schubert to a friend

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J S Bach to the Town Council

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Claude Debussy to a friend

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Giacomo Puccini to a friend

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Robert Schumann to his fiancée

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Ode to the west wind

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who knows if the moon's a balloon

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Spring is like a perhaps hand

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In Just-spring

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in Spring comes

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when faces called flowers float out of the ground

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Sonnet 63 (Volgendo gli occhi)

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Sonnet 164 (Or che'l ciel)

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Sonnet 300 (Quanta invidia io ti porto)

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Prologue: Shadow And Substance

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The Lake At Evening

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Music On The Water

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Fair Is The Swan

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In Remembrance Of Schubert

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Hymn Near the Rapids

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The Lake At Night

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Epilogue: De Profundis

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Sleep

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Winter

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The Devon maid

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In praise of Apollo

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On visiting Oxford

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A party of lovers at tea

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Sharing Eve's apple

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There was a naughty boy

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