Lyric Companion
Composer

M. Babbitt

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

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LIEDER · 34

Wiedersehen

1916·du
DE

Wankelmut

1916·du
DE

Begegnung

1916·du
DE

Allmacht

1916·du
DE

Traum

1916·du
DE

Schwermut

1896·du
DE

Fluch

1916·mehr-du
DE

Mondschein

1916·mehr-du
DE
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Schön

1916·mehr-du
DE

Trieb

1916·mehr-du
DE

Section One

1916·philomel
EN

Section Two : Echo Song

1916·philomel
EN

Section Three

1916·philomel
EN

Heard through lids slammed down over darkened glass

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
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Where, where, where? Where is here? Where is Herr Haar

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Floor lamps and their shadows warmed the room where

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Slanting lean, gray rain washing the palace

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Coarse breath fanning the closed air by his ear

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

He felt his hand feeling another hand

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Down the shaded street, toward an avenue

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

The Hyperboreans gathered him up

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Leaving that unfair, seasonless land was

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Beyond the cold, blue mountain and beyond

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Half his days he had passed in the shadow

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

When, as if late some night of festival

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

He awoke. Low in the sky in August

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

Grayish flakes like clay are falling as if

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

The bright moon offends him: he plucks it out

1916·the-head-of-the-bed
EN

The Widow's Lament In Springtime

1916
EN

As long as it isn't Love

1916·three-theatrical-songs
EN

Penelope's Night Song

1916·three-theatrical-songs
EN

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

1916·two-sonnets
EN

That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

1914·two-sonnets
EN

Vision and Prayer

1909
EN

Wiedersehen

1916·du
DE

Wankelmut

1916·du
DE

Begegnung

1916·du
DE

Allmacht

1916·du
DE

Traum

1916·du
DE

Schwermut

1896·du
DE

Fluch

1916·mehr-du
DE

Mondschein

1916·mehr-du
DE