Composer: Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998)

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

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: 15^th 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
• no. ?. Tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER RUS
• A Summer Serenade
• no. ?. O rose, thou art sick (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
• Five Medieval Lyrics
• no. 1. Colloquy [x]
• no. 2. Confession (Text: Anonymous after 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: 16^th century) 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
• no. ?. 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 (Berceuse sur les touches blanches), composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Nerys Jones) [x]*
• 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) [x]
• 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 )
• 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
• no. ?. 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
• no. 2. Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS

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: Anonymous after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
• Cradle Song (Berceuse sur les touches blanches) (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: Nerys Jones) [x]*
• 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
• 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 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 )
• The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r (in A Little Love Music) (Text: 15^th 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 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: 16^th century) 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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