ART SONGS:
Ireland: The song-cycle MOTHER AND CHILD
Telemann: Mutter-Sohne
Miss L.H. of Liverpool: My mother
Dvorak: Als die alte Mutter (Songs my mother taught me) (op 55 #4)
Ives: Songs my mother taught me (Kz26)
Rossini: A ma belle mere (from PECHES DE VIELLESSE, Book 11)
Bixio: Mamma
Viardot-Garcia: L'enfant et la mere
Shostakovich: Zabotlivyje mama i tjotja (Thoughtful mother and aunt) (IZ
IEVREISKOI NARODNOI PO'EZII (ON JEWISH FOLK POETRY) op 79a)
Stephen Foster: A dream of my mother and my home; Leave me with my mother;
Mother, thou'rt faithful to me; Oh! tell me of my mother!
POPULAR:
The classic Johnson and Morse song "M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word that Means the
World to Me)"
Lewis & Young: My Mammy - made famous by Al Jolson
Charles Aznavour: La mamma
The Beatles: Your mother should know
Sigmund Romberg: Mother (MY MARYLAND)
Ivor Novello: And her mother came too
Simon & Garfukel: Mother and Child Reunion
FOLK-SONGS:
Das Lied, das meine Mutter sang (German)
The bad mother (Moravian)
The Cruel Mother (English)
Dearest mother busy now must be (Hungarian)
O grieve you now, my mother (spiritual)
Take my mother home (spiritual)
MOTHER-THEMED DUETS & ENSEMBLES:
Tenor/Soprano: Parle-moi de ma mere (Bizet: CARMEN, act I)
Two females: If momma was married (Styne: GYPSY)
Soprano/Mezzo/Baritone (or Bass): Ta mere, oses-tu l'interroger
(Offenbach: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN)
SAD or TROUBLING MOTHER-THEMED ARIAS and SONGS:
Mascagni: Mamma!...Quel vino (CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA)
Schumann: Muttertraum (op 40 #2)
Grieg: Ved Moders Grav (op 69 #3)
Mahler: KINDERTOTENLIEDER
Giordano: "La mamma morta" (ANDREA CHENIER)
Puccini: "Senza mamma" (SUOR ANGELICA)
Vaughan Williams: "Life must be full of care" (HUGH THE DROVER)
Schubert: Lied (Mutter geht durch ihre Kammern), D.373
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths.
- Proverbs 3:6
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