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Blake’s poetry has been set by dozens of composers. His Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience have inspired generations of American composers, including Ernst Bacon, William Bolcom, George Antheil, John Harbison, Sidney Homer, Frank Lewin, Otto Luening, George Rochberg, Elie Siegmeister, Virgil Thomson, and George Whitefield Chadwick.
William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Songs & Song Collections BY Blake (entered to date)
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And Did Those Feet?
(in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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The Argument
- Composer:
- Curtis Bryant
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A Cradle Song
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
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A Cradle Song
(in Three Songs of Blake and Donne)
- Composer:
- Allen Brings
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The Divine Image
(in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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FIVE SONGS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE
- Song Collection
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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For Everything That Lives is Holy
- Composer:
- Curtis Bryant
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
- Song Collection
- Composer:
- Scott Wheeler
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INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
- Song Collection
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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The Lamb
(in Quiet Airs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
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The Lamb
- Composer:
- Leslie Crabtree
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The Land of Dreams
(in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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Let the Priests
- Composer:
- Curtis Bryant
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The Little Black Boy
(in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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The Little Fly
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
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Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
(in Echo's Songs)
- Composer:
- Daron Aric Hagen
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Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
(in Three Songs of Blake and Donne)
- Composer:
- Allen Brings
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No. 1. To Morning
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 2. Song: How Sweet I Roam'd
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 3. Song: Memory, Hither Come
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 5. Day
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 6. I Saw a Chapel All of Gold
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 7. A Divine Image
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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No. 9. Night
(in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
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SONGS OF INNOCENCE
- Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
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Sound the Flute
(in A River of Honey)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
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THREE SONGS OF BLAKE AND DONNE
- Song Collection
- Composer:
- Allen Brings
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Tiger! Tiger!
(in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
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Tygers of Wrath
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
Composers who set Blake's TEXTS (entered to date)
- Bacon -- Ernst Bacon
- Brings -- Allen Brings
- Bryant -- Curtis Bryant
- Carpenter -- John Alden Carpenter
- Crabtree -- Leslie Crabtree
- Hagen -- Daron Aric Hagen
- Hall -- Juliana Hall
- Lewin -- Frank Lewin
- Rorem -- Ned Rorem
- Sargon -- Simon Sargon
- Thomson -- Virgil Thomson
- Wheeler -- Scott Wheeler