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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Butterworth

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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Bredon Hill and other songs
    • no. 1. Bredon Hill (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. Oh fair enough are sky and plain (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 3. When the lad for longing sighs (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 4. On the idle hill of summer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 5. With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Folk Songs from Sussex
    • no. 1. Yonder stands a lovely creature (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 2. A blacksmith courted me (Text: Volkslieder ) IRI
    • no. 3. Sowing the seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 4. A lawyer he went out (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 5. Come my own one (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 6. The cuckoo (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 7. A brisk young sailor courted me (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 8. Seventeen come Sunday (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 9. Roving in the dew (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 10. The true lover's farewell (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 11. Tarry trowsers (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Love blows as the wind blows
    • no. 1. In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather (Text: William Ernest Henley)
    • no. 2. Life in her creaking shoes (Text: William Ernest Henley)
    • no. 3. Fill a glass with golden wine (Text: William Ernest Henley)
    • no. 4. On the way to Kew (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (נער משרופשיר, translated by Max Mader) (Un gars de Shropshire, translated by Patricia Dillard Eguchi) HEB FRE
    • no. 1. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
    • no. 2. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
    • no. 3. Look not in my eyes (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
    • no. 4. Think no more, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
    • no. 5. The lads in their hundreds (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
    • no. 6. Is my team ploughing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Two Songs
    • no. 1. I fear thy kisses (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE RUS
    • no. 2. Requiescat (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A blacksmith courted me (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder ) IRI
  • A brisk young sailor courted me (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • A lawyer he went out (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Bredon Hill (in Bredon Hill and other songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Come my own one (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Fill a glass with golden wine (in Love blows as the wind blows) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • I fear thy kisses (in Two Songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE RUS
  • In the highlands, in the country places (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather (in Love blows as the wind blows) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • Is my team ploughing (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • I will make you brooches (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA LIT
  • Life in her creaking shoes (in Love blows as the wind blows) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • Look not in my eyes (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Loveliest of trees (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Oh fair enough are sky and plain (in Bredon Hill and other songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • On the idle hill of summer (in Bredon Hill and other songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • On the way to Kew (in Love blows as the wind blows) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • Requiescat (in Two Songs) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS
  • Roving in the dew (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Seventeen come Sunday (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Sowing the seeds of love (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Tarry trowsers (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • The cuckoo (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • The lads in their hundreds (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • The true lover's farewell (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Think no more, lad (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • When I was one-and-twenty (in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
  • When the lad for longing sighs (in Bredon Hill and other songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • With rue my heart is laden (in Bredon Hill and other songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Yonder stands a lovely creature (in Folk Songs from Sussex) (Text: Volkslieder )

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