Texts by S. Coleridge 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 Cradle Song (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - R. Vaughan Williams DUT FRE GER
- A love dream (If I had but two little wings) - R. Loehr GER
- Answer to a child's question (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - L. Lehrman
- A sunny shaft did I behold - M. Salmond, H. Steer-Saxby (Glycine's Song)
- As when a mother doth explore (As when a mother doth explore) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- As when a mother doth explore (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Birdspeak (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - S. Wilkinson
- Cologne (In Köhln, a town of monks and bones)
- Cradle hymn (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - E. MacDowell DUT FRE GER
- Cradle song (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - M. Blower DUT FRE GER
- Dormi, Jesu (The Virgin's cradle hymn) (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - A. MacKenzie DUT FRE GER
- Dormi, Jesu (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - F. Boott, I. Copley, S. Tuttle, C. Williams DUT FRE GER
- Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove - R. Bennett, M. Buchanan, F. Cowen, T. Dutton, L. Lehrman (Answer to a child's question)
- Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove - S. Wilkinson
- Dream thoughts (If I had but two little wings) - F. Gostelow GER
- Eight springs have flown, since last I lay (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Eight springs have flown (Eight springs have flown, since last I lay) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Encinctured with a twine of leaves) (from The Wanderings of Cain) - B. Britten CAT FRE
- Encinctured with a twine of leaves (from The Wanderings of Cain) CAT FRE - B. Britten
- Epigrams (I ask'd my fair, one happy day)
- Epigram (Sir, I admit your general rule) - J. Weiss, J. Wyttenbach [possibly misattributed] GER
- Genevieve (Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve!) - S. Coleridge-Taylor
- Glycine's Song (A sunny shaft did I behold)
- Glycine (A sunny shaft did I behold) - H. Steer-Saxby
- Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep (Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star (Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni) - R. Vaughan Williams
- How warm this woodland wild Recess (How warm this woodland wild Recess !) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- How warm this woodland wild Recess ! (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni (Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star)
- I ask'd my fair, one happy day - C. Ide (Epigrams)
- If I had but two little wings (If I had but two little wings) - E. Bainton, J. Barnett, H. Brian, F. Class, E. Fitzwilliam, E. Fogg, H. Foss, J. Glover, L. Hamand, E. Ingleby, G. Jones, L. Lehmann, G. Marston, L. Maurer, H. Middleton, M. Owen, C. Parry, H. Perabeau, C. Rootham, H. Smart GER
- If I had but two little wings GER - E. Bainton, J. Barnett, H. Brian, F. Class, E. Fitzwilliam, E. Fogg, H. Foss, J. Glover, F. Gostelow, L. Hamand, F. Hart, E. Ingleby, G. Jones, L. Lehmann, R. Loehr, G. Marston, L. Maurer, H. Middleton, M. Owen, C. Parry, H. Perabeau, C. Rootham, H. Smart (Something childish, but very natural)
- If in my sleep to you I fly (If I had but two little wings) - F. Hart GER
- I Love My Love (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - M. Buchanan
- In Köhln, a town of monks and bones - L. Lehrman (Cologne)
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) FRI - G. Bantock, S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Forsyth, F. Goossen, P. Legge, P. Manoury, G. McKay, B. Naylor, H. Perkins, H. Procter-Gregg, H. Searle, P. Turok, J. Veale (Kubla Khan)
- It is an ancient Mariner - J. Corigliano
- Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan) (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) - B. Naylor FRI
- Kubla Khan (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan) (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) - G. Bantock, S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Forsyth, F. Goossen, P. Legge, G. McKay, H. Perkins, H. Procter-Gregg, H. Searle, P. Turok, J. Veale FRI
- Landscape (Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s brow) - R. Vaughan Williams
- Lullaby (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - H. Hayes, R. Rogers DUT FRE GER
- Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve! - S. Coleridge-Taylor (Genevieve)
- Names (I ask'd my fair, one happy day) - C. Ide
- No voice as yet had made the air (No voice as yet had made the air) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- No voice as yet had made the air (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Ode to the City of Cologne (In Köhln, a town of monks and bones) - L. Lehrman
- Sir, I admit your general rule [possibly misattributed] GER - J. Weiss, J. Wyttenbach
- Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling DUT FRE GER - R. Arnatt, S. Beck, M. Blower, F. Boott, I. Copley, E. Dunham, F. Durrant, H. Hayes, J. Howard, E. MacDowell, A. MacKenzie, C. Macpherson, K. Meek, J. Raynor, R. Rogers, E. Rubbra, J. Tatton, S. Tuttle, R. Vaughan Williams, C. Williams (The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn Copied from a print of the Virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany)
- Sleep, sweet babe (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - E. Dunham, K. Meek DUT FRE GER
- Something childish, but very natural (If I had but two little wings) GER
- Song of Thekla (The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar) - C. Wood CAT DAN DUT FRE FRE RUS SWE SWE
- The Ancient Mariner (It is an ancient Mariner) - J. Corigliano
- The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar CAT DAN DUT FRE FRE RUS SWE SWE - C. Wood (Thekla's Song)
- The enchanted bird (A sunny shaft did I behold) - M. Salmond
- Thekla's Song (The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar) CAT DAN DUT FRE FRE RUS SWE SWE
- The lark (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - R. Bennett
- The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn Copied from a print of the Virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) DUT FRE GER
- The Virgin's cradle hymn (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - R. Arnatt, S. Beck, F. Durrant, J. Howard, C. Macpherson, J. Raynor, E. Rubbra, J. Tatton DUT FRE GER
- The Virgin's Cradle Song (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling) - R. Vaughan Williams DUT FRE GER
- Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying - C. Wood (Youth and Age)
- Wär ich ein Vögelein (Wär ich ein Vögelein) - A. Todt (Text: Anonymous after Samuel Taylor Coleridge) [x]
- Wär ich ein Vögelein - A. Todt (Text: Anonymous after Samuel Taylor Coleridge) [x]
- What if you slept? - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
- What if... (What if you slept?) - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
- What the Birds Say (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - F. Cowen, T. Dutton
- Xanadu (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan) (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) - P. Manoury FRI
- Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s brow - R. Vaughan Williams (Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni)
- You stood before me like a thought (You stood before me like a thought) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- You stood before me like a thought (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
- Youth and Age (Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying) - C. Wood
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