Songs of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler
Subtitle: forty-two songs in German and English
By: edited with singable English translations and introductory notes by Eric Bentley ; music edited by Earl Robinson, with piano arrangements and guitar chords
Contributors: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956; Bentley, Eric, 1916-
Publisher: Oak Publications
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Songs with piano; Communism; Songs and music; Choruses, Secular, with piano; Vocal scores with piano; Incidental music; Musical settings; Excerpts; Working class
Work titles: Songs
Notes: For voice and piano or, in part, for chorus and piano; with chord symbols.

Words by Brecht; music by Eisler.

"Notes on the music": p. 10-11; "Notes on the songs": p. 191-192.

Includes bibliographical references and discography.

English and German words.
Table of contents: title: Americana. Coal for Mike = Kohlen für Mike ; The gray goose = Die haltbare Graugans; title: Marching songs. Solidarity song = Solidaritätslied ; Song of the United Front = Das Einheitsfrontlied ; All or nothing = Sklave, wer wird dich befreien?; title: On war and peace. Peace song = Friedenslied ; Ballad of the soldier = Ballade vom Soldaten; title: The poet in exile. To the little radio = An den kleinen Radioapparat ; And the times were dark and fearful = Und es sind die finstern Zeiten ; The homecoming = Die Heimkehr ; Easter Sunday, 1935 = Ostersonntag; title: A Hollywood elegy ; To those who come after : three elegies; title: Goodness and badness. Abortion is illegal = Ballade zum P. 218 ; The mask of wickedness = Die Maske des Bösen ; The sprinkling of gardens = Vom Sprengen des Gartens ; On the world's kindness = Von der Freundlichkeit der Welt ; The poplar tree on Karlsplatz = Die Pappel vom Karlsplatz ; How the wind blows = Wie der Wind weht; title: from The measures taken. Happy the man = Lenin-Zitat ; Change the world, it needs it = Ändere die Welt, sie braucht es ; Song of the rice-barge coolies = Gesang der Reiskahnschlepper ; Come out and fight = Streiklied ; Supply and demand = Lied des Händlers ; We are the scum of the earth = Wir sind der Abschaum der Welt ; Praise of illegal work = Lob der illegalen Arbeit ; Praise of the U.S.S.R. = Lob der U.S.S.R.; title: from The mother. Praise of study = Lob der Lernens; title: from The good woman. On suicide = Uber den Selbstmord; title: from Round heads. There's nothing quite like money = Lied der Kupplerin ; The love market = Lied eines Freudenmädchens; title: from The master race. The tree and the branches = Ballade vom Baum und den Ästen ; Ballad of Marie Sanders = Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders ; Do not cry, Marie! = Deutsches Lied, 1937 ; The German Miserere = Das deutsche Miserere ; Song of a German mother = Lied einer deutschen Mutter ; A German at Stalingrad = Und ich werde nicht mehr sehen; title: from Schweyk. Song of the little wind = Lied vom kleinen Wind ; And what did she get? = Das Lied vom Weib des Nazisoldaten ; Song of the Moldau = Das Lied von der Moldau.