Lyric Companion
Composer

John Harbison

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

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LIEDER · 54

It's true, I went to the market

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

All I was doing was breathing

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Why Mira can't go back to her old house

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Where did you go

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

The clouds

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Don't go, don't go

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

On the Greve

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

Chemin de Fer

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN
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The winds of dawn

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

Cirque d'hiver

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

To be recited to Flossie on her birthday

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

December 1

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

God only knows

1938
EN

Lo sai

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

Molti anni

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

Brina sui vetri

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

Lontano

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

Addi

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

La speranza

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-i
IT

Il saliscendi

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

Ecco il segno

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

Il ramarro

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

Perché tardi

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

L'anima

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

Ti libero

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-ii
IT

La gondola

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iii
IT

Infuria

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iii
IT

Al primo chiaro

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iii
IT

Il fiore

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iii
IT

La rana

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iv
IT

Non recidere

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iv
IT

La canna

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iv
IT

Ma così sa

1938·mottetti-di-montale-libro-iv
IT

Ballad for Billie I

1938·north-and-south
EN

Late air

1938·north-and-south
EN

Breakfast song

1938·north-and-south
EN

Ballad for Billie II

1938·north-and-south
EN

Song

1938·north-and-south
EN

Dear, my compass...

1938·north-and-south
EN

Japan

1938·simple-daylight
EN

Simple daylight

1938·simple-daylight
EN

Somewhere a seed

1938·simple-daylight
EN

Your name

1938·simple-daylight
EN

The wild irises

1938·simple-daylight
EN

Odor

1938·simple-daylight
EN

Con fuoco (Miłosz, Orpheus and Eurydice)

1938·symphony-no-5
EN

Grave (Louise Glück, Relic)

1938·symphony-no-5
EN

Lento (Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus II, 13)

1934·symphony-no-5
DE

The flower-fed buffaloes

1938·the-flower-fed-buffaloes
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Enrich my resignation

1938·the-flower-fed-buffaloes
EN

Above Pate Valley

1938·the-flower-fed-buffaloes
EN

The amaranth

1938·the-flower-fed-buffaloes
EN

The rewaking

1938·the-rewaking
EN

Vocalism

1938
EN

It's true, I went to the market

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

All I was doing was breathing

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Why Mira can't go back to her old house

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Where did you go

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

The clouds

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

Don't go, don't go

1938·6-mirabai-songs
EN

On the Greve

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN

Chemin de Fer

1938·flashes-and-illuminations
EN