Lyric Companion
Composer

W. Bolcom

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

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LIEDER · 69

At the last lousy moments of love

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Who

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The clearing

briefly-it-enters
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Otherwise

briefly-it-enters
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February: Thinking of flowers

briefly-it-enters
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Twilight: After haying

briefly-it-enters
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Man eating

briefly-it-enters
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The sick wife

briefly-it-enters
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Peonies at dusk

briefly-it-enters
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Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks

briefly-it-enters
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Oh close the curtain

cabaret-songs
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George

cabaret-songs
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Over the Piano

cabaret-songs
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Amor

cabaret-songs
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Fur (Murray the Furrier)

cabaret-songs
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Pity me not because the light of day

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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How to swing those obbligatos around

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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The crazy woman

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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Just once

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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Never more will the wind

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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The sage

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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O to be a dragon

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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The bustle in a house

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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I saw Eternity

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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Night practice

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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The fish

i-will-breath-a-mountain-a-song-cycle-from-american-women-poets
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Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield

let-evening-come
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'Tis not that Dying hurts us so

let-evening-come
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Let evening come

let-evening-come
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I fear'd the fury of my wind

morning-and-evening-poems
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I thought love lived in the hot sunshine

morning-and-evening-poems
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Lady Death

old-addresses
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The next table

old-addresses
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Histrion

old-addresses
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Ballad of the Landlord

old-addresses
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The embrace

old-addresses
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Africa

old-addresses
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To my old addresses

old-addresses
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Open house

open-house
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Give way, ye gates

open-house
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The waking

open-house
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The serpent

open-house
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I knew a woman

open-house
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First meditation

open-house
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The right thing

open-house
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Song of Black Max (As Told by the de Kooning Boys)

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Hear the voice of the Bard

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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Earth's answer

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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Nurse's song

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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The little girl lost

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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The little girl found

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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Holy Thursday

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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To Tirzah

songs-of-experience-volume-one
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The Voice of the Ancient Bard

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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A little boy lost

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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A little girl lost

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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The chimney sweeper

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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The Human Abstract

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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A divine image

songs-of-experience-volume-two
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The shepherd

songs-of-innocence
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The little black boy

songs-of-innocence
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The chimney sweeper

songs-of-innocence
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The divine image

songs-of-innocence
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A Dream

songs-of-innocence
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The little boy lost

songs-of-innocence
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The little boy found

songs-of-innocence
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The flute of interior time

the-aids-quilt-songbook
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The Junction, on a warm afternoon

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Toothbrush Time

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At the last lousy moments of love

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Who

briefly-it-enters
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The clearing

briefly-it-enters
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Otherwise

briefly-it-enters
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February: Thinking of flowers

briefly-it-enters
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Twilight: After haying

briefly-it-enters
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Man eating

briefly-it-enters
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The sick wife

briefly-it-enters
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