Texts by S. Naidu set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- A kokila called from a henna-spray (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann (In Praise of Henna)
- Alabaster (Like this alabaster box whose art) (from The Golden Threshold - 2. Songs for Music) - L. Lehmann
- A lovely little dream (From groves of spice) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - S. Coleridge-Taylor
- At the Threshold (In childhood's pride I said to Thee) - L. Lehmann
- Bright shower of lambent butterflies (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - E. Charles (Farewell)
- Come to me, sweet, on silver-girt feet! - L. Lehmann
- Cradle song (From groves of spice) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- Ecstasy (Heart, O my heart! lo, the springtime is waking) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime) RUS
- Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) (Indian Dancers) -
- Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - F. Jacobi (The Faery Isle of Janjira)
- Farewell (Bright shower of lambent butterflies) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life)
- From groves of spice (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - S. Coleridge-Taylor, L. Lehmann, H. Ware (Cradle song)
- Harvest Hymn (Lord of the lotus, lord of the harvest) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- Heart, O my heart! lo, the springtime is waking (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime) RUS (Ecstasy) -
- Henna (A kokila called from a henna-spray) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- Hindu Slumber Song (From groves of spice) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - H. Ware
- Honey child, honey child, whither are you going? - H. Ware (The Call of Radha)
- I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 1. Songs of Love and Death) - F. Jacobi (Love and Death)
- I muse among these silent fanes (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann (The Royal Tombs of Golconda)
- In childhood's pride I said to Thee - L. Lehmann (The Soul's Prayer)
- Indian Dancers (Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems)
- Indian Dancers (The music sighs and slumbers) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 1. Songs of Love and Death) - L. Lehmann
- Indian Love-Song (Like a serpent to the calling voice of flutes) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs)
- In Praise of Henna (A kokila called from a henna-spray) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs)
- In the night (Sleep, my little ones, sleep) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - F. Jacobi
- Invincible () - H. Westbrook [x]
- Leili (The serpents are asleep among the poppies) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems)
- L'Envoi (Bright shower of lambent butterflies) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - E. Charles
- Lightly, O lightly we bear her along (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann, M. Shaw (Palanquin-Bearers)
- Like a serpent to the calling voice of flutes (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann (Indian Love-Song)
- Like a Serpent (Like a serpent to the calling voice of flutes) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- Like this alabaster box whose art (from The Golden Threshold - 2. Songs for Music) - L. Lehmann (Alabaster)
- Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann (To a Buddha seated on a Lotus)
- Lord of the lotus, lord of the harvest (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann (Harvest Hymn)
- Love and Death (I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 1. Songs of Love and Death) - F. Jacobi
- Love Song (Come to me, sweet, on silver-girt feet!) - L. Lehmann
- New leaves grow green on the banyan twigs (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime) (Spring) - L. Lehmann
- New leaves grow green (Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime) - L. Lehmann
- Nightfall in Hyderabad (See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann
- Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad (See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems)
- Once in the dream of a night I stood (from The Golden Threshold - 2. Songs for Music) - L. Lehmann (Song of a Dream)
- Palanquin-Bearers (Lightly, O lightly we bear her along) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- Pesn' vesny = Песнь весны (Vesna razbudila vershiny i doly = Весна разбудила вершины и долы) - J. Weissberg
- Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - S. Coleridge-Taylor (The Coromandel Fishers)
- See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann (Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad)
- Sleep, my little ones, sleep (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - F. Jacobi (In the night)
- Song of a Dream (Once in the dream of a night I stood) (from The Golden Threshold - 2. Songs for Music) - L. Lehmann
- Song of the Palanquin Bearers (Lightly, O lightly we bear her along) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - M. Shaw
- Sons of the sea (Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - S. Coleridge-Taylor
- Spendthrift (You held a wild-flow'r in your fingertips) - E. Charles
- Spring (Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime)
- The Call of Radha (Honey child, honey child, whither are you going?) - H. Ware
- The Coromandel Fishers (Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs)
- The Dance of Love (The music sighs and slumbers) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 1. Songs of Love and Death)
- The Faery Isle of Janjira (Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom) (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 4. Songs of Life) - F. Jacobi
- The music sighs and slumbers (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 1. Songs of Love and Death) - L. Lehmann (The Dance of Love)
- The Royal Tombs of Golconda (I muse among these silent fanes) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann
- The serpents are asleep among the poppies (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann (Leili)
- The Serpents are Asleep (The serpents are asleep among the poppies) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann
- The Snake-Charmer (Whither dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?) (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann
- The Soul's Prayer (In childhood's pride I said to Thee)
- To a Buddha seated on a Lotus (Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne) (from The Golden Threshold - 3. Poems) - L. Lehmann
- Vesna razbudila vershiny i doly = Весна разбудила вершины и долы - J. Weissberg (Песнь весны)
- Whither dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call? (from The Golden Threshold - 1. Folk Songs) - L. Lehmann (The Snake-Charmer)
- You held a wild-flow'r in your fingertips - E. Charles
- Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs (from The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring - 2. Songs of the Springtime) - L. Lehmann (Spring)
- Youth, sweet comrade - E. Charles
- Youth (Youth, sweet comrade) - E. Charles
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