All Elliott Carter Lyrics (en) Total 16
Elliott Carter - EmblemsI Maryland, Virginia, Caroline Pent images in sleep Clay valleys rocky hills old fields of pine Unspeakable and deep Out of that source of time my farthest blood
Elliott Carter - Warble for Lilac TimeWarble me now, for joy of Lilac-time Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake - And death's the same as life's Souvenirs of earliest summer
Elliott Carter - VoyageInfinite consanguinity it bears — This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea plains where the sky Resigns a breast that every wave enthrones; While ribboned water
Elliott Carter - The Harmony of MorningThe Harmony of morning And a thrush's throat among the sleep deserted boughs Expiring mists that murmur all the day of a clear dusk, with music at the close; Night madrigal and
Elliott Carter - SyringaOrpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. Then one day, everything changed. He rends Rocks into fissures with
Elliott Carter - Let's Be GayYouth's the season made for joys; Love is then our duty She alone who that employs Well deserves her beauty Let's be gay while we may Drink and sport yet today;
Elliott Carter - Musicians Wrestle EverywhereMusicians wrestle everywhere: All day, among the crowded air I hear the silver strife; And - waking long before the morn - Such transport breaks upon the town I think it that
Elliott Carter - Heart not so heavy as mineHeart, wending late home As it passed my window Whistled itself a tune Not so heavy as mine Whistled itself a tune Yet to my irritated ear An anodyne so sweet
Elliott Carter - Across the Yard: La IgnotaThe soprano's bosom breathes the joy of God Brunnhilde who could not rule her voice for God - Her stately yellow ivory window frames Haven't seen paint or putty these twenty
Elliott Carter - The Line-gangHere come the line-gang pioneering by They throw a forest down less cut than broken They plant dead trees for living, and the dead They string together with a living thread They
Elliott Carter - O BreathBeneath that loved and celebrated breast Silent, bored really blindly veined Grieves, maybe lives and lets Live, passes bets Something moving but invisibly And with what
Elliott Carter - View of the Capitol From the Library of CongressMoving from left to left, the light Is heavy on the Dome, and coarse One small lunette turns it aside And blankly stares off to the side Like a big white old wall-eyed horse
Elliott Carter - InsomniaThe moon in the bureau mirror Looks out a million miles (and perhaps with pride, at herself But she never, never smiles) Far and away beyond sleep, or Perhaps she's a
Elliott Carter - SandpiperThe roaring alongside he takes for granted And that every so often the world is bound to shake He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward In a state of controlled panic, a student
Elliott Carter - ArgumentDays that cannot bring you near Or will not Distance trying to appear Something more obstinate Argue argue argue with me Endlessly Neither proving you less wanted nor
Elliott Carter - AnaphoraEach day with so much ceremony Begins, with birds, with bells With whistles from a factory; Such white-gold skies our eyes First open on, such brilliant walls That for a
Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) started out composing in a strict modernist style, though his harmonic language evolved over the course of his long life. He published more than 20 new works after turning 100.