Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Davies
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Ah! Gentle May I lay me down [cantata]
- no. 1. The Couch of Death (Text: William Blake)
- no. 2. Thel (Text: William Blake)
- A Merry Heart and Other Songs, op. 33
- no. 9. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
- Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram
- no. 1. Gabriele’s Liedlein (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- no. 2. Rolf's Gebet über Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- no. 3. Wiegand's Lieder: Schlummlied für Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- no. 4. Wiegand's Warmengesang (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- no. 5. Wiegand's Trostlied (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) ENG
- Four Songs
- no. 1. There is a Lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
- no. 2. Wander-thirst (Text: Gerald Gould)
- no. 3. A lift on the way (Text: Edwin Waugh) [x]
- no. 4. The Night-Watch (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon) [x]
- Four Songs of Innocence, op. 4
- no. 1. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- no. 2. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
- no. 3. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
- Kookoorookoo and other songs [multi-composer]
- no. ?. Who has seen the wind?, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Fly away, fly away over the sea, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- no. ?. Growing in the vale, composed by Alfred Jethro Silver (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. The horses of the sea, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. If a pig wore a wig, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Ferry me across the water, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- no. ?. I dug and dug amongst the snow, composed by Walter Galpin Alcock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. If hope grew on a bush, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Is the moon tired? she looks so pale, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Kookoorookoo, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Lullaby, oh lullaby!, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Mix a pancake, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. A motherless soft lambkin, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Boats sail on the rivers, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Brown and furry, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. The peacock has a score of eyes, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. A pin has a head but has no hair, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Sing me a song, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. What do the stars do?, composed by Donald Francis Tovey (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. A rose has thorns as well as honey, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. A white hen sitting, composed by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. Rosy maiden Winifred, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. The summer nights are short, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- no. ?. The wind has such a rainy sound, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. ?. What is pink?, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Sacred Lullabies and Other Songs
- no. 6. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- Songs of Nature
- no. ?. The bough of May (Text: T. E. Brown)
- The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, op. 13
- no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- no. 2. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 3. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- The Long Journey, op. 25
- no. 1. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 2. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- no. 3. When childher plays (Text: T. E. Brown)
- no. 4. Gaudeamus (Text: Margaret Louisa Woods)
- no. 5. Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- no. 6. Manhood (Text: Robert Browning)
- no. 7. Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
- no. 8. Turn back, my soul (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- no. 9. Tap o' the hill (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
- no. 10. Land ho, land! (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
- no. 11. Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
- no. 12. Epilogue: Eternity (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Twenty-one songs
- Lord, my heart's desire (Text: George Herbert) [x]
- no. 1. Arkendale (Text: Naomi Mary Gillman)
- no. 2. The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- no. 3. A dirge (Text: Webster) [x]
- no. 4. Follow your saint (Text: Thomas Campion)
- no. 5. He hears with gladdened heart the thunder (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
- no. 6. I love all beauteous things (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 7. In the highlands (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
- no. 8. It is not growing like a tree (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
- no. 9. My Joy, my Life, my Crown (Text: George Herbert)
- no. 11. Never weather‑beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
- no. 12. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
- no. 14. Peace waits among the hills (Text: Arthur Symons)
- no. 15. Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
- no. 16. Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- no. 17. Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- no. 18. Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
- no. 19. Tune thy music to thy heart (Text: Thomas Campion)
- no. 20. Up in the morning early (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
- no. 21. The vagabond (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT ITA LIT
- no. 22. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
- Two Love Songs, op. 10
All titles of vocal settings in Opus order
- A dirge (Text: Webster) [x]
- A lift on the way (Text: Edwin Waugh) [x]
- A prayer for king and country (Text: John Masefield)
- Arkendale (Text: Naomi Mary Gillman)
- Arm thee! Arm thee! (Text: Mary Coleridge)
- Christ in the Universe (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
- Daybreak (Text: William Blake) RUS
- Dominus Illuminatio Mea (Text: Richard Doddridge Blackmore)
- Fly away, fly away over the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- Follow your saint (Text: Thomas Campion)
- Gabriele’s Liedlein (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- He hears with gladdened heart the thunder (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
- I love all beauteous things (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- In the highlands (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
- It is not growing like a tree (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
- I vow to thee, my country (Text: Cecil Spring-Rice, Sir)
- Lord, my heart's desire (Text: George Herbert) [x]
- Lullaby, oh lullaby! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- My Joy, my Life, my Crown (Text: George Herbert)
- Neighbours (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- Never weather‑beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
- Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
- Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
- Peace waits among the hills (Text: Arthur Symons)
- Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
- Rolf's Gebet über Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
- The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The bough of May (Text: T. E. Brown)
- The Couch of Death (Text: William Blake)
- Thel (Text: William Blake)
- The Night-Watch (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon) [x]
- There is a Lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
- The Seal's Lullaby (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE
- The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
- The vagabond (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT ITA LIT
- Tune thy music to thy heart (Text: Thomas Campion)
- Up in the morning early (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
- Wander-thirst (Text: Gerald Gould)
- When childher plays (Text: T. E. Brown)
- Wiegand's Lieder: Schlummlied für Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- Wiegand's Trostlied (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) ENG
- Wiegand's Warmengesang (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
- op. 3. Six Songs
- no. 1. The Farewell (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
- no. 2. Ye Jacobites by name (Text: Robert Burns)
- no. 3. Hymn Before Action (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 4. Our Lady of the Snows (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 5. A Song of Innocence (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- no. 6. The Lawlands o' Holland [x]
- op. 4. Four Songs of Innocence
- no. 1. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
- no. 2. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
- no. 3. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
- op. 6. Prospice (Text: Robert Browning)
- op. 10. Two Love Songs
- op. 13. The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- no. 2. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 3. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- op. 18. Six Songs
- no. 1. Hame (Text: Allan Cunningham)
- no. 2. An uncouth love-song (Text: George Wither)
- no. 3. This ae nighte (Text: 15th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
- no. 4. I love the jocund dance (Text: William Blake)
- no. 5. For a' That (Text: Robert Burns)
- no. 6. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
- op. 22.
- no. 3. England's Pleasant Land (Text: William Blake) GER SPA
- op. 25. The Long Journey
- Heft 1
- no. 1. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 2. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- no. 3. When childher plays (Text: T. E. Brown)
- no. 4. Gaudeamus (Text: Margaret Louisa Woods)
- no. 5. Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- no. 6. Manhood (Text: Robert Browning)
- Heft 2
- no. 7. Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
- no. 8. Turn back, my soul (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
- no. 9. Tap o' the hill (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
- no. 10. Land ho, land! (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
- no. 11. Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
- no. 12. Epilogue: Eternity (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Heft 1
- op. 28. The cross (Text: John Donne)
- no. 6. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
- op. 33. A Merry Heart and Other Songs
- no. 9. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
- op. 47. Heaven's Gate (Text: William Blake)
Last update: 2023-10-03 04:29:19