Art Songs of Harry T. Burleigh

Art Songs of Harry T. Burleigh
Complete Alphabetical List

Song Cycles for Voice and piano

Five Songs of Laurence Hope [4, Phillip Creech]

1. Worth While
2. The Jungle Flower
3. Kashmiri
4. Among the Fuchsias
5. Till I Wake (Laurence Hope, 1915)

Passionale (James Weldon Johnson, 1915)

1. Her Eyes Twin Pools (text James Weldon Johnson)
2. Your Lips are Wine
3. Your Eyes So Deep
4. The Glory of the Day was in Her Face

Plantation Melodies Old and New

I doan' want fu't stay hyeah no longah (Tune: Danville Chariot, R. E. Phillips)
Ma Lawd's a-writin' down time (Tune: He sees all you do, an’ hyeahs all you see, R. E. Phillips)
When de Debble comes ‘round (Tune: You shall have er new hidin’-place dat day, R. E. Phillips)
De Black-bird an' de Crow (Tune: We will go er-pickin’ up cohn.), R. E. Phillips)
My Merlindy Brown (James Edwin Campbell, Negro Serenade)
Negro Lullaby (James Edwin Campbell)
An Ante-Bellum Sermon (Tune: Joshua fit de battl’ ob Jerico; Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1901)

Saracen Songs (1914)(text Fred G. Bowles) G.Ricordi & Co. [4, sung by Hilda Harris & Arthur Woodley]

No. I. Almona: Song of Hassan
No. II. O, Night of Dream and Wonder: Almona's song
No. III. His Helmet's Blaze: Almona's Song of Yussouf to Hassan
No. IV. I Hear is Footsteps, Music Sweet: Almona's Song of Delight
No. V. Thou Art Weary: Almona's song to Yussouf
No. VI. This is Nirvanna: Yussouf's Song to Almona
No. VII. Ahmed's Song of Farewell (1914)

Three Songs

If you but knew (translated from French, 1896, 1897)
A Birthday Song (Christina Rossetti)
Life (John Boyle O’Reilly, 1898)

Two Plantation Songs (1902)

You'll Git Dar in de Mornin' (James E. Campbell)
Ring, My Bawnjer, Ring (Frank L. Stanton, 1902)

Two Plantation Songs (1905/07)

I'll be dar to Meet Yo' (Beverly Garrison)
Keep a Good Grip on de Hoe! (Howard Weeden, 1905/1907)

Two Poems (1902) (text W. E. Henley)

Bring Her Again To Me
The Spring My Dear Is No Longer Spring (W. E. Henley, 1902)

Alphabetical song list of Harry T. Burleigh (numbers in brackets relate to the discography below)

A Birthday Song (No. 2 from Three Songs, text Christina Rossetti, 1898)
A Corn Song ( Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1920)
A Song of Rest (Fred Bowles, 1919)
Achievement (Frances Bacon Paine, 1905)
Adoration (Dora Lawrence Houston, 1921) [1]
Ahmed's Song of Farewell (No. 7 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Woodley]
Almona: Song of Hassan (No. 1 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Woodley]
Among the Fuchsias (No. 4 from Five Songs of Laurence Hope) [4-Creech]
An Ante-Bellum Sermon (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text: Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1901)
And as the Gulls Soar (Frances Bacon Paine, 1905) [1]
Apart (Frances Bacon Paine, 1905)
Before Meeting (Arthur Symons, 1921)
Bring Her Again to Me (from Two Poems, 1902)(text W. E. Henley)
By The Pool At The Third Rosses (Arthur Symons, 1916) [7]
Child Jesus Comes from Heav’nly Heights (Hans Christian Andersen, 1916)
Carry Me Back to the Pine Wood (anonymous, 1909) [1]
Come with Me (Lura K. ClenDening, 1921)
De Black-bird an' de Crow (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text R. E. Phillips)
De Ha'nt (collected by James W. Pryor, 1921)
Don’t Yo’ Dream of Turnin’ Back (text Negro Folk Song 1921)
Down by the Sea (George O’Connell, 1919)
Dream Land: A Cradle Song (Louise Alston Burleigh, 1905)
Dreams Tell Me Truly (Fred G. Bowles, 1917)
Elysium (James Weldon Johnson, 1914) [1]
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Walt Whitman, 1915) [2, 4-Harris, 8]
Exile (Inez Maree Richardson, 1922) [2]
Folk Song: I Love My Jean (Robert Burns, 1904)
Fragments (Jessie Fauset, 1909)
Have You Been to Lons? (Gordon Johnstone, 1920)
He Met Her in the Meadow (Harry T. Burleigh, 1921) [3]
He Sent Me You! (Frederick H. Martens, 1915) [1]
Hearts (C. M. Wilmerding, 1915)
Heigh-Ho! (James E. Campbell, 1904) [1]
Her Eyes Twin Pools (No.1 from Passionale)(text James Weldon Johnson)
His Helmet's Blaze (No. 3 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Harris, 5]
His Word Is Love: Sacred Song (Fred G. Bowles, 1914)
I doan' want fu't stay hyeah no longah (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text R. E. Phillips)
I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet (No. 4 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles, 1914) [1, 4-Harris]
I'll be dar to Meet Yo' (Two Plantation Songs, 1905/07) (text Beverly Garrison)
I Remember All (Arthur Symons, 1919)
I Want to Die While You Love Me (George Douglas Johnson, 1919)
If Life Be a Dream (Frank L. Stanton, 1904)
If you but knew (No. 1 from Three Songs)(translated from French)
In Summer (Josephine Nichols, 1917)
In the Great Somewhere (Harold Robè, 1919)
In the Woods of Finvara (Arthur Symons, 1917)
It Was Nothing But a Rose (anonymous, 1910)
Jean (Frank L. Stanton, 1903) [3]
Just a Wearin' for You (Frank L. Stanton, 1906)
Just Because (H. T. Burleigh, 1906)
Just My Love and I: Boat Song (Louise A. Burleigh, 1904)
Just You (Madge Marie Miller, 1915) [1]
Kashmiri (No. 3 from Five Songs of Laurence Hope) [4-Creech]
Keep a Good Grip on de Hoe! (from Two Plantation Songs, 1905/07) (text Howard Weeden)
Life (No. 3 from Three Songs, John Boyle O’Reilly, 1898)
Listen to Yo’ Gyarden Angel (Robert Underwood Johnson, 1920)
Little Mother of Mine (Walter H. Brown, 1917) [2]
Love Found the Way (Jesse Winne, 1922)
Love Watches: An Irish Fragment (George F. O’Connell, 1920) [4-Cole]
Lovely Dark and Lonely One (Langston Hughes, 1935) [1, 2, 4-Creech, 5, 6]
Love's Dawning (Louise A. Burleigh, 1906)
Love's Garden (M. Heuchling, 1902)
Love's Likeness (Madge Marie Miller, 1917)
Love's Pleading (Leontine Stanfield, 1904)
Ma Lawd's a-writin' down time (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text R. E. Phillips)
Malay Boat Song (Laurence Hope, 1906)
Mammy's Lil' Baby: Cradle Song (Louise Alston Burleigh, 1903) [2]
Memory (Arthur Symons, 1915)
Molly Went Away (Frank L. Stanton, 1907)
My Merlindy Brown (Negro Serenade) (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text James Edwin Campbell)
Myrra: I Know of Two Bright Eyes (anonymous, 1909)
Negro Lullaby (Plantation Melodies Old and New)(James Edwin Campbell)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1908) [1, 4-Woodley]
O Night of Dream and Wonder (Almona’s Song) (No.2 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Harris]
O Perfect Love: Wedding Song (1904)
O Why Art Thou Not Near Me: Serenade (anonymous, 1904)
Oh Love of a day (Randolph Hartley, 1905) [1]
Oh, My Love! (Harriet Gaylord, 1919) [1]
Oh! Rock Me, Julie (text Negro Folk Song 1921) [2, 5]
On Inishmaan: Isles Of Aran (Arthur Symons, 1917)
One Day (Mary Blackwell Sterling, 1904) [1]
One Year: 1914-1915 (Margaret M. Harlan, 1916)
Perhaps (Louise Alston Burleigh, 1906)
Promis’ Lan’: A Hallelujah Song (text Mrs. N. J. Corey, 1917) [4-Cole]
Request (Laurence Hope, 1905)
Ring, My Bawnjer, Ring (from Two Plantation Songs 1902) (text Frank L. Stanton)
Savior Divine: Sacred Song (R. Palmer, 1907)
Scandalize’ My Name (text Negro Folk Song , 1921)
Sleep Lil' Chile, Go Sleep! A Negro Lullaby (George V. Hobart, 1902) [5]
Somewhere (James Whedon, 1907)
Tarry with Me, O My Saviour: Sacred Song ( C. L. Smith, 1920)
Tell Me Once More (Fred B. Bowles, 1920)
The Absent - Minded Beggar (Rudyard Kipling, unpublished)
The Dove and the Lily (Swedish folk song, 1917) [1, 2, 5]
The Dream Love (Alexander Groves, 1923)
The Glory of the Day was in Her Face (No. 4 from Passionale) (text James Weldon Johnson)
The Grey Wolf (Arthur Symons, 1916) [1]
The Hour Glass (Alexander Groves, 1914)
The Jungle Flower (No. 2 from Five Songs of Lawrence Hope) [4]
The Little House of Dreams (Arthur Wallace Peach, 1922)
The Man in White(anonymous, 1917) [1]
The Prayer (Arthur Symons, 1915) [1, 5]
The Prayer I Make for You (Harold Robè, 1921) [1]
The Sailor's Wife (Mary Stewart Cutting, 1917) [1]
The Soldier (Rupert Brooke, 1916) [2]
The Spring My Dear Is No Longer Spring (From Two Poems 1902)(text W. E. Henley)
The Trees Have Grown So (John Hanlon, 1923) [2]
The Victor (George O’Connell, 1919)
The Way O' the World (Frank L. Stanton, 1904)
The Young Warrior (Il Giovane Guerriero) (James Weldon Johnson, 1915)
This is Nirvana (no. 6 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Woodley]
Thou Art Weary (No. 5 from Saracen Songs, text Fred G. Bowles) [4-Harris]
Three Shadows (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1916)
Through Love's Eternity (C. C. Stoddard)
Through Peace to Light (Adelaide Proctor, 1905)
Thy Heart (from the Sanskrit, A. V. Williams Jackson, 1902) [2]
Tide (Frances Bacon Paine, 1905) [1]
‘Till I Wake (No 5 from Five Songs of Laurence Hope) [4-Creech, 5]
Two Words (Edward Oxenford, 1908)
Under a Blazing Star (Mildred Seitz, 1918)
Waiting (Martha Gilbert Dickinson, 1904)
Were I A Star (A. Musgrove Robarts, 1919) [1]
When de Debble comes ‘round (Plantation Melodies Old and New) (text R. E. Phillips)
Why Art Thou Not Near Me (anon. serenade, 1904) [1]
Worthwhile (No. 1 from Five Songs of Laurence Hope) [4-Creech]
You Ask Me If I Love You (Lillian Bennett Thompson, 1907) [1]
You'll Git Dar in de Mornin' (from Two Plantation Songs 1902) (text James E. Campbell)
Your Eyes So Deep (No. 3 from Passionale) (text James Weldon Johnson)
Your Lips are Wine (No.2 from Passionale) (text James Weldon Johnson)
Yours Alone (Edward Oxenford, 1909)

Discography: Compact Discs with Art Songs by Harry T. Burleigh

The numbers in brackets [ ] after the song titles in the alphabetical song list above indicate the CD where the song is recorded.
1. Regina McConnell, soprano; Michael Cordovana, piano; Art Songs of Harry T. Burleigh Centaur (2252). 23 art songs.
2. Oral Moses, bass-baritone; Ann Sears, piano; Deep River Classical Arts (252CD), 11 art songs.
3. Oral Moses, bass-baritone; George Bailey, piano; Amen! Albany (Troy – 459), 2 art songs.
4. Hilda Harris, mezzo-soprano; Philip Creech, tenor; Steven Cole, tenor; Arthur Woodley, bass; Joseph Smith, piano. From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh Premier (PRCD 1041), 17 art songs.
5. Karen Parks, soprano; Nobody Knows: Songs of Harry T. Burleigh (Distributed by Thirsty Tiger, Sony/BMG). 7 art songs.
6. Darryl Taylor, tenor; William Warfield, narrator; Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes. Naxos (8.559136) 1 art song.
7. William Brown, tenor; Ann Sears, piano; Fi-yer! A Century of African-American Song Albany (Troy 329) 2 art songs.
8. Thomas Hampson, baritone, Craig Rutenburg, piano; To the Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman EMI Classics (55 028) 1 art song.

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