Fifty songs
By: Ernst Bacon
Contributors: Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888; Blake, William, 1757-1827; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672; Carus, Helena; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Lenau, Nicolaus, 1802-1850; Lengyel, Cornel, 1914-2003; Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843; Still, John, 1543?-1608; Sui Yangdi, Emperor of China, 569-618; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Edition: Limited 1st ed.
Publisher: Dragon's Teeth Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Georgetown, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Songs with piano; NMusical settings; Musical settings
Work titles: Songs
Notes: Songs on texts by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Cornel Lengyel, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shakespeare, and others.

For voice and piano.

Reproduced from holograph.

"Ernst Bacon : a contemporary tribute": p. iii-iv.

"Compositions (partial list) by Ernst Bacon": p. 128-129.

English words; also printed as text (p. 119-125).
Table of contents: title: Songs of exaltation. The unseen soil / Walt Whitman; title: Christ's Sunday morn / Old English; title: Sunset ; In the silent West / Emily Dickinson; title: Sailing homeward / Chan-Fang-Shen; title: Solitude; title: Eternity / E. Dickinson; title: Songs of love. As well as Jesus / E. Dickinson; title: Sonnet / Elizabeth Barrett Browning; title: Little boy / English, 17th century; title: Miranda's song / Shakespeare; title: To a loving husband / Anne Bradstreet; title: Nocturne / Nikolaus Lenau; title: A brighter morning / Helena Carus; title: Eden / E. Dickinson; title: Songs of sorrow. She went; title: A threadless way / E. Dickinson; title: Late call / Cornel Lengyel; title: The imperial heart / E. Dickinson; title: Calm soul / Matthew Arnold; title: Songs of nature. The bat; title: The swamp; title: A spider; title: Snowfall; title: Summer's lapse / E. Dickinson; title: Flowers and moonlight / Yang-Ti; title: Songs of indignation. The Spanish Armada / John Still; title: To a newcomer / C. Lengyel; title: After Blenheim / Robert Southey; title: Caliban / Shakespeare; title: Songs of Usania. Minding your own business / Trad.; title: Buffalo skinners / Trad.; title: The dodger / Trad.; title: My land / Anon.; title: Omaha / Carl Sandburg; title: Songs of tenderness. Christmas eve / Tennyson; title: Sleep / Shakespeare; title: To music: a fragment / Shelley; title: Infant joy / William Blake; title: Ancient carol / Anon.; title: Songs of whimsey. Weeping and sighing / E. Dickinson; title: Melody on a leaf / Western Chinese; title: I'm nobody / E. Dickinson; title: No more milk / Dr. Samuel Johnson; title: Songs of death. Lingering last drops / Walt Whitman; title: We never know / E. Dickinson; title: Thou too / Goethe; title: On the frontiers / W. Whitman; title: Farewell / E. Dickinson; title: At the last / W. Whitman.