Texts by J. Milton set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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- A solemn music II (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - N. Castiglioni
- A Song of Spiritual Creatures (Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth) (from Paradise Lost) - M. King FRI
- At a solemn musick (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - E. Diemer
- At a solemn music (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy)
- A vak szonettje (Tünődöm olykor, mért szállt rám homály) GER ITA
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy - N. Castiglioni, E. Diemer, C. Parry (At a solemn music)
- Blest pair of sirens (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - C. Parry
- By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim - T. Arne
- By dimpled brook (By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim) - T. Arne
- By the gaily circling glass (By the gaily circling glass) - T. Arne
- By the gaily circling glass - T. Arne
- Comus () (from Comus) - G. Victory [x]
- Echo (Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen) (from Comus)
- Epilogue (Ring out, ye crystal spheres) - R. Vaughan Williams
- Evening (Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray) (from Paradise Lost) - C. Ives FRI GER
- Fame's an Echo, Prattling double - T. Arne
- Fame's an Echo (Fame's an Echo, Prattling double) - T. Arne
- Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race - E. Wellesz (On Time)
- For what is glory but the blaze of fame (from Paradise Regained)
- Hail! bounteous May (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - M. Head
- Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee - F. La Forge (L'Allegro)
- Hence, loathed Melancholy (L'Allegro) -
- Hence vain deluding Joys
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth - G. Finzi (Sonnet VII)
- How soon hath Time (How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth) - G. Finzi
- Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (It was the Winter wild)
- Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime (from Paradise Lost) - G. Bantock
- It was the Winter wild - G. McKay, R. Vaughan Williams (Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity)
- L'Allegro (Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee)
- L'Allegro (Hence, loathed Melancholy)
- Me miserable! which way shall I flie (from Paradise Lost) FRI - G. Bantock
- Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth (from Paradise Lost) FRI - M. King
- Milton's song: To May morning (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - A. Mounsey
- Monologue: Is this the region (Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime) (from Paradise Lost) - G. Bantock
- Nativity morn (This is the month, and this the happy morn) - J. La Montaine
- Not on beds of fading flow'rs (Not on beds of fading flow'rs) - T. Arne
- Not on beds of fading flow'rs - T. Arne
- Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray (from Paradise Lost) FRI GER - C. Ives
- Now came still Evening on (from Paradise Lost) FRI GER
- Now Phoebus sinketh in the west (The star that bids the shepherd fold) - T. Arne
- Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger - B. Britten, R. Finney, M. Head, A. Mounsey (Song on May Morning)
- On his blindness (When I consider how my light is spent) - S. Bick GER HUN ITA
- On May morning (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - R. Finney
- On the morning of Christ's nativity (It was the Winter wild) - G. McKay
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646 (When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never)
- On Time (Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race) - E. Wellesz
- Pastorale (Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee) - F. La Forge
- Princes! potentates! warriors (... Princes, Potentates) (from Paradise Lost) - G. Bantock FRI
- Princes, potentates, warriors (from Paradise Lost) FRI
- ... Princes, Potentates (from Paradise Lost) FRI - G. Bantock
- Pyrrha (What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors) - M. Gideon FRE ITA POL
- Ring out, ye crystal spheres - R. Vaughan Williams
- Sabrina Fair (Sabrina Fair) (from Comus) - H. Lawes
- Sabrina Fair (from Comus) - H. Lawes
- Satan's monologue: Me miserable (Me miserable! which way shall I flie) (from Paradise Lost) - G. Bantock FRI
- So at length the spirit of man will reach out, and will reach out far - A. Bush
- So at length the spirit of man (So at length the spirit of man will reach out, and will reach out far) - A. Bush
- Song from Milton's Comus (Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen) (from Comus) - O. Dresel
- Song: It was the winter wild (It was the Winter wild) - R. Vaughan Williams
- Song on May Morning (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger)
- Sonnet VII (How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth)
- Sonnet XIX (When I consider how my light is spent) GER HUN ITA
- Sonnet (When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never) - L. Crabtree
- Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen (from Comus) - O. Dresel (Echo)
- The morning star (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - B. Britten
- The star that bids the shepherd fold - T. Arne
- The Star that bids the Shepherd fold (from Comus)
- This is the month, and this the happy morn - J. La Montaine
- To Pyrrha (What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors) FRE ITA POL
- Tünődöm olykor, mért szállt rám homály GER ITA (A vak szonettje) -
- Upon the Circumcision (Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright)
- What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors FRE ITA POL - M. Gideon (To Pyrrha)
- When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never - L. Crabtree (On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646)
- When I consider how my life is spent GER HUN ITA (Sonnet XIX) - S. Bick, G. Finzi
- When I consider how my life is spent (When I consider how my light is spent) - G. Finzi GER HUN ITA
- When I consider how my light is spent GER HUN ITA - S. Bick, G. Finzi (Sonnet XIX)
- Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright - I. Boyle (Upon the Circumcision)
- Ye flaming Powers (Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright) - I. Boyle
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