Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile:
Wond’ring how your pains were eas’d
And disdaining to be pleas’d
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.
Song Titles & Texts
- Adams, John
- Adler, Samuel
- Ames, Roger
- Bacon, Ernst
- Barber, Samuel
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Berg, Alban
- Berger, Jean
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Bowles, Paul
- Brahms, Johannes
- Bridge, Frank
- Britten, Benjamin
- Burleigh, Henry Thacker
- Busby, Gerald
- Carpenter, John A.
- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
- Copland, Aaron
- Dalmas, Philip
- Duke, John
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Eisler, Hanns
- Farwell, Arthur
- Finzi, Gerald
- Foster, Stephen
- Gold, Ernest
- Grieg, Edvard
- Griffes, Charles
- Grosz, Wilhelm
- Hageman, Richard
- Haydn, Joseph
- Henze, Hans Werner
- Hindemith, Paul
- Hopkinson, Francis
- Ireland, John
- Ives, Charles
- Kagen, Sergius
- Korngold, Erich
- Krása, Hans
- Krenek, Ernst
- Liszt, Franz
- Loeffler, Charles Martin
- Loewe, Carl
- MacDowell, Edward
- Mahler, Alma
- Mahler, Gustav
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Naginski, Charles
- Neidlinger, William H.
- Niles, John Jacob
- Pahlen, Kurt
- Paulus, Stephen
- Previn, André
- Purcell, Henry
- Reutter, Hermann
- Ritter, Frédéric Louis
- Rorem, Ned
- Rossini, Gioachino
- Schönberg, Arnold
- Schonthal, Ruth
- Schreker, Franz
- Schubert, Franz
- Schumann, Clara
- Schumann, Robert
- Shaw, Clifford
- Stanford, Charles Villiers
- Still, William Grant
- Strassburg, Robert
- Strauss, Richard
- Thomas, Michael Tilson
- Thomson, Virgil
- Traditionals
- Ullmann, Viktor
- Urquhart, Craig
- Wagner, Richard
- Warlock, Peter
- Warren, Elinor Remick
- Webern, Anton
- Weill, Kurt
- Weisgall, Hugo David
- White, Stephen
- Williams, Ralph Vaughan
- Zeisl, Erich
- Zemlinsky, Alexander
Music for a While
Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)
Text: John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee
