Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Bush
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A Little Love Music
- no. 1. Hide, Absalom, thy guilty tresses clear (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
- no. 2. The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r (Text: 15th century)
- no. 3. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)
- no. 4. With margerain gentle (Text: John Skelton)
- no. 5. Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go! (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 6. I love and I hate (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) GER ITA SPA
- no. 7. And wilt thou leave me thus! (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- no. 8. This is the key of the Kingdom
- A Menagerie
- A Summer Serenade
- Five Medieval Lyrics
- no. 1. Colloquy [x]
- no. 2. Confession (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- no. 3. Carol
- no. 4. The Vanity of Human Wishes (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 5. Rutterkin (Text: John Skelton)
- Five Spring Songs
- no. 1. Diaphenia (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
- no. 2. Lay a Garland on my Hearse (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
- no. 3. What thing is Love? (Text: George Peele)
- no. 4. Weep you No More Sad Fountains (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
- no. 5. Now the Lusty Spring is Seen (Text: John Fletcher)
- Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides'
- no. 1. The Impatient Lover (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 2. Upon the Loss of his Mistresses (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 3. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 4. Upon Julia's Clothes (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Seven Greek Love Songs
- no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- no. 2. Flowers (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- no. 3. A Curse (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- no. 4. The Mosquito (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- no. 5. Night (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- no. 6. Lullaby (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- no. 7. The Poet's Epitaph (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- Seven Limericks
- The girl with the Tyrian lyre (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
- Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano [multi-composer]
- no. 1. Here we come a-piping, composed by Nicholas Marshall (Text: Anonymous)
- no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Anonymous) WEL
- no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Nerys Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- no. 3. The lamb that e’er the world began (Now carol we), composed by Inglis Gundry (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 4. To Musick, composed by John Golland (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 5. Song at evening, composed by Geoffrey Kimpton (Text: Audrey Duggan) *
- no. 6. In the still air, composed by David Campbell Dorward (Text: Horatius Bonar)
- no. 7. I know a bank, composed by Betty Roe (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- Songs of the Zodiac
- no. 1. Aries: the Ram (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 2. Gemini: the Twins (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 3. Taurus: the Bull (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 4. Cancer: the Crab (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 5. Leo: the Lion (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 6. Virgo: the Virgin (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 7. Libra: the Scales (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 8. Scorpio: the Scorpion (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 9. Sagittarius: the Archer (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 10. Capricorn: the Goat (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 11. Aquarius: the Water-carrier (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- no. 12. Pisces: the Fish (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Songs of wonder
- no. 1. Here comes a lusty wooer (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 2. Polly Pillicote (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 3. The wonder of wonders (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 4. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 5. The little nut-tree (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT
- The End of Love
- no. 1. Lament (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- no. 2. Far-darting Apollo (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- no. 3. The end of love (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- no. 4. Introspection (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- Three Elizabethan Songs
- Stay o sweet (Text: John Donne)
- Three Songs of Ben Jonson
- no. 1. Echo's Lament for Narcissus (Text: Ben Jonson)
- no. 2. The Kiss (Text: Ben Jonson)
- no. 3. A Rebuke (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
- Two Shelley Songs for SATB a cappella
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A Curse (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- And wilt thou leave me thus! (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
- Aquarius: the Water-carrier (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- A Rebuke (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
- Aries: the Ram (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- A song of praise (Text: George Herbert)
- Avondale (Text: Stevie Smith)
- Cancer: the Crab (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Capricorn: the Goat (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Carol (in Five Medieval Lyrics)
- Colloquy (in Five Medieval Lyrics) [x]
- Confession (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- Cradle Song (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: Anonymous) WEL
- Cradle Song (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: Nerys Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- Cuisine Provençale (Text: Virginia Woolf)
- Diaphenia (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
- Earth has grain to grow (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
- Echo's Lament for Narcissus (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson)
- Fanfare (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- Far-darting Apollo (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- Flowers (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- Gemini: the Twins (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Here comes a lusty wooer (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Hide, Absalom, thy guilty tresses clear (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
- I love and I hate (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) GER ITA SPA
- Introspection (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
- Lament (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- Lay a Garland on my Hearse (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
- Leo: the Lion (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Libra: the Scales (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Love for such a cherry lip (Text: Thomas Middleton)
- Lullaby (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- Merciless Beauty (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Merry Margaret (in A Little Love Music) (Text: John Skelton)
- Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
- My Cats (Text: Stevie Smith)
- Night (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
- Now the Lusty Spring is Seen (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: John Fletcher)
- Old Abram Brown (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
- O rose, thou art sick (in A Summer Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
- O, the Month of May (Text: Thomas Dekker)
- Ozymandias (in Two Shelley Songs for SATB a cappella) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
- Pisces: the Fish (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Polly Pillicote (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
- Rutterkin (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: John Skelton)
- Sagittarius: the Archer (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Scorpio: the Scorpion (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
- Stay o sweet (in Three Elizabethan Songs) (Text: John Donne)
- Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go! (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Anonymous)
- Taurus: the Bull (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- The end of love (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
- The girl with the Tyrian lyre (in Seven Limericks) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
- The Impatient Lover (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
- The Kiss (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson)
- The little nut-tree (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT
- The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r (in A Little Love Music) (Text: 15th century)
- The Mosquito (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- The Poet's Epitaph (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
- There is a garden in her face (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
- The Vanity of Human Wishes (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: Anonymous)
- The wonder of wonders (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
- This is the key of the Kingdom (in A Little Love Music)
- Tiger (in A Menagerie) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
- To Electra (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Upon Julia's Clothes (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Upon the Loss of his Mistresses (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Virgo: the Virgin (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
- Weep you No More Sad Fountains (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
- What thing is Love? (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: George Peele)
- With margerain gentle (in A Little Love Music) (Text: John Skelton)
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