Author: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)

Text Compilations

• Bloody Brother
• Cupid's Revenge
• The Captain
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle
• The Maid's Tragedy
• The Queen of Corinth
• The Tragedy of Valentinian
• The Woman Hater

Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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

• A hymn to Pan (All ye woods and trees and bowers) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir
• All ye woods and trees and bowers - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (A hymn to Pan)
• An die Tonkunst aus Shakespear's "König Heinrich der Achte." (Orpheus bei der Laute Klang) - (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE
• A sad song (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) - Peter Warlock DUT GER
• Aspatia's song (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER
• Aspatia's song (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) - Juriaan Andriessen, John Jeffreys DUT GER
• Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling (Away, delights)
• Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling - Emma Lou Diemer, Robert Johnson (Away, delights)
• Away, delights (Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling)
• Away, delights (Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling) - Emma Lou Diemer, Robert Johnson
• Better music ne'er was known (Better music ne'er was known) - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir
• Better music ne'er was known - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Better music ne'er was known)
• Come hither, you that love, and hear me sing (from The Tragedy of Valentinian) - Robert Johnson (Come hither you that love)
• Come hither you that love (Come hither, you that love, and hear me sing) (from The Tragedy of Valentinian) - Robert Johnson
• Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving (from The Woman Hater) FRE GER SPA - Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Come sleep)
• Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving (from The Woman Hater) FRE GER SPA (Sleep)
• Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving (from The Woman Hater) FRE GER SPA - Rebecca Clarke, Ivor (Bertie) Gurney, John Jeffreys, Humphrey Procter-Gregg, Peter Warlock (Sleep)
• Come sleep (Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving) (from The Woman Hater) - Peggy Glanville-Hicks FRE GER SPA
• Come, you whose loves are dead - Julius Benedict (Dirge for the faithful lover)
• Dirge for the faithful lover (Come, you whose loves are dead) - Julius Benedict
• Do not fear to put thy feet - Richard Hundley (Sweet river)
• Do not fear to put thy feet (The River-God's song)
• Do not fear to put thy feet - Ernest John Moeran (The River-God's song)
• Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow (from Bloody Brother) - Gary Bachlund (The drinking song)
• Evening in summer (Shepherds all and maidens fair) - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
• Finale (London, to thee I do present the merry month of May) (from The Knight of the Burning Pestle) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
• Heinrich VIII (Orpheus Laute hiess die Wipfel) - G. K. Witte [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE (Text: Anonymous after John Fletcher)
• Hymn to Pan (Sing his praises that doth keep)
• Hymn to Pan (Sing his praises that doth keep) - Rebecca Clarke
• I'll sail upon the Dog-star (I'll sail upon the Dog Star) - Nicholas Maw, Henry Purcell
• I'll sail upon the Dog Star - Nicholas Maw, Henry Purcell (I'll sail upon the Dog-star)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER - Peter Warlock (A sad song)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER (Aspatia's song)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER - Juriaan Andriessen, John Jeffreys (Aspatia's song)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) - Geoffrey Bush, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir DUT GER
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER - Geoffrey Bush, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Lay a garland on my hearse)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER - Robert Lucas Pearsall, Adam Taylor (Lay a garland)
• Lay a garland on my hearse (from The Maid's Tragedy) DUT GER - Ernest John Moeran (Willow song)
• Lay a garland (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) - Robert Lucas Pearsall, Adam Taylor DUT GER
• Legt ein Kränzlein von der Eibe DUT (Text: Anonymous after Francis Beaumont)
• Let the Graces and Pleasures repair - Henry Purcell (Let the Graces)
• Let the Graces (Let the Graces and Pleasures repair) - Henry Purcell
• Lied aus Heinrich VIII, von Shakespeare (Orpheus Laute hiess die Wipfel) - Eduard Lassen [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE (Text: Anonymous after John Fletcher)
• London, to thee I do present the merry month of May (from The Knight of the Burning Pestle) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (Finale)
• Lovers rejoice, your paines shall be rewarded (from Cupid's Revenge) [x] - William Lawes (Lovers, rejoice)
• Lovers, rejoice (Lovers rejoice, your paines shall be rewarded) (from Cupid's Revenge) - William Lawes [x]
• Madrigal à la musique (Orphée avec son luth faisait courber les chênes) - Charles Bordes [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN GER GER GER SWE
• Mourn no more (Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan) (from The Queen of Corinth) - Peter Warlock
• Now the Lusty Spring is Seen (Now the lusty spring is seen) - Geoffrey Bush
• Now the lusty spring is seen - Geoffrey Bush (Now the Lusty Spring is Seen)
• O lead me to some peaceful gloom (O lead me to some peaceful gloom) - Henry Purcell FRE
• O lead me to some peaceful gloom FRE - Henry Purcell (O lead me to some peaceful gloom)
• Orfeus med sin lutas klang (Orfeus med sin lutas klang) - Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER [x]
• Orfeus med sin lutas klang [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER [x] - Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar (Orfeus med sin lutas klang)
• Orphée avec son luth faisait courber les chênes [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN GER GER GER SWE - Charles Bordes (Madrigal à la musique)
• Orpheon kun kannel kaikui [possibly misattributed] DUT FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Orpheus bei der Laute Klang [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE - (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (An die Tonkunst aus Shakespear's "König Heinrich der Achte.")
• Orpheus dwong der bomen toppen [possibly misattributed] FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Orpheus Laute hiess die Wipfel [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE (Text: Anonymous after John Fletcher) - G. K. Witte (Heinrich VIII)
• Orpheus Laute hiess die Wipfel [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE SWE (Text: Anonymous after John Fletcher) - Eduard Lassen (Lied aus Heinrich VIII, von Shakespeare)
• Orpheus (Lucius's Song) (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Marc Blitzstein [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Marc Blitzstein (Orpheus (Lucius's Song))
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright, Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge, Carl Reinhold Busch, John Linton Gardner, Edward German, Maurice Greene, J. Frederick Keel, George Alexander MacFarren, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Roger Quilter, Betty Roe, Andrew Schneider, William Howard Schuman, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Arthur Sullivan, Sir, Ralph Vaughan Williams (Orpheus with his lute)
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, (Mary Ann) Virginia Gabriel, Ivor (Bertie) Gurney, Noël Lee, Thomas Pasatieri (Orpheus)
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Steven R. Gerber (Song4)
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Thomas Chilcot (The words by Shakespeare in Henry the Eight)
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Richard Hundley (When Orpheus played)
• Orpheus with his lute made trees (from Henry VIII) [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE - Jason Rico
• Orpheus with his lute (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright, Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge, Carl Reinhold Busch, John Linton Gardner, Edward German, Maurice Greene, J. Frederick Keel, George Alexander MacFarren, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Roger Quilter, Betty Roe, Andrew Schneider, William Howard Schuman, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Arthur Sullivan, Sir, Ralph Vaughan Williams [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Orpheus (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, (Mary Ann) Virginia Gabriel, Ivor (Bertie) Gurney, Noël Lee, Thomas Pasatieri [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Shepherds all and maidens fair - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (Evening in summer)
• Since from my dear Astraea's sight FRE - Henry Purcell (Since from my dear Astrea's sight)
• Since from my dear Astrea's sight (Since from my dear Astraea's sight) - Henry Purcell FRE
• Sing his praises that doth keep (Hymn to Pan)
• Sing his praises that doth keep - Rebecca Clarke (Hymn to Pan)
• Sleep (Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving) (from The Woman Hater) FRE GER SPA
• Sleep (Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving) (from The Woman Hater) - Rebecca Clarke, Ivor (Bertie) Gurney, John Jeffreys, Humphrey Procter-Gregg, Peter Warlock FRE GER SPA
• Song4 (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Steven R. Gerber [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Still I'm wishing, still desiring - Henry Purcell (Still I'm wishing)
• Still I'm wishing (Still I'm wishing, still desiring) - Henry Purcell
• Sweet river (Do not fear to put thy feet) - Richard Hundley
• Tell me, dearest, what is love? (Tell me, dearest, what is love?) (from The Captain) - Robert Johnson
• Tell me, dearest, what is love? (from The Captain) - Robert Johnson (Tell me, dearest, what is love?)
• Tell me why, my charming fair - Henry Purcell (Tell me why)
• Tell me why (Tell me why, my charming fair) - Henry Purcell
• The drinking song (Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow) (from Bloody Brother) - Gary Bachlund
• There's not a Swain, on the Plain GER - Henry Purcell (There's not a swain)
• There's not a swain (There's not a Swain, on the Plain) - Henry Purcell GER
• The River-God's song (Do not fear to put thy feet)
• The River-God's song (Do not fear to put thy feet) - Ernest John Moeran
• The words by Shakespeare in Henry the Eight (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Thomas Chilcot [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan (from The Queen of Corinth) - Peter Warlock (Mourn no more)
• What shall I do to show how much I love her? - Henry Purcell (What shall I do)
• What shall I do (What shall I do to show how much I love her?) - Henry Purcell
• When Orpheus played (Orpheus with his lute made trees) (from Henry VIII) - Richard Hundley [possibly misattributed] DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Willow song (Lay a garland on my hearse) (from The Maid's Tragedy) - Ernest John Moeran DUT GER

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