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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Williamson

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John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Four Housman Songs
    • no. 1. The Isle of Portland -- The star-filled skies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. I wake from dreams and turning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 3. When Adam walked in Eden young (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 4. The mill stream (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Three More Housman Songs
    • no. 1. 'Tis five years since, "An end," said I (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. Parta quies - Good-night; ensured release (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 3. Oh is it the jar of nations (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A. J. J. (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Along the fields as we came by (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • A Night in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • As I gird on for fighting (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Ask me no more, for fear I should reply (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Before the battle (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
  • By shores and woods and steeples (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Carol (Text: Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson, OBE) [x]*
  • Carol (Text: Randall Carline Swingler) [x]
  • Could man be drunk for ever (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Cricket (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
  • Delight it is in youth and May (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Easter Hymn (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
  • Eight o'clock (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Fancy's knell - When lads were home from labour (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Fancy's knell (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Farewell to a name and a number (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Farewell to barn and stack and tree (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Far in a western brookland (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • For my funeral - O thou that from thy mansion (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • From Clee to heaven the beacon burns (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • From far, from eve and morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Give me a land of boughs in leaf (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • He looked at me with eyes I thought (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Ho, everyone that thirsteth (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • How clear, how lovely bright (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • How clear, how lovely bright (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Hughley Steeple - The vane on Hughley Steeple (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • I did not lose my heart in summer's even (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • If truth in hearts that perish (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • I hoed and trenched and weeded (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
  • I lay me down and slumber (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Illic jacet (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • In summertime on Bredon (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • In the morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • In valleys green and still (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • In valleys of springs of rivers (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • I promise nothing; friends will part (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Is my team ploughing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • I stood with the dead (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
  • It is no gift I tender (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • It nods and curtseys (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • I wake from dreams and turning (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Keeping sheep by moonlight - On moonlit heath and lonesome bank (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Lancer - I 'listed at home for a lancer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Late September (Text: Ivor Gurney)
  • Like mine, the veins of these that slumber (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Lines composed in a Wood on a windy day (Text: Anne Brontë)
  • Look not in my eyes (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • March - The sun at noon to higher air (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • My dreams are of a field afar (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
  • Now dreary dawns the eastern light (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Now hollow fires burn out to black (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh fair enough are sky and plain (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh is it the jar of nations (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh turn not in from marching (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh were he and I together (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Oh, when I was in love with you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
  • On forelands high in heaven (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • On the idle hill of summer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • On your midnight pallet lying (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Others, I am not the first (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Parta quies - Good-night; ensured release (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Reveille - Wake, the silver dusk returning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Revolution - West and away the wheels of darkness roll (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • R.L.S. - Home is the sailor, home from the sea (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Saint Elfod's Song (Text: Rhian Churchill) [x]
  • Say, lad, have you things to do (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Shadows (Text: Alun Lewis) [x]
  • Shot? (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Sinner's rue (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Smooth between sea and land (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Soldier from the wars returning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Spring morning - Star and coronal and bell (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Tell me not here, it needs not saying (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The carpenter's son - Here the hangman stops his cart (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The culprit - The night my father got me (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The day of battle - Far I hear the bugle blow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The defeated - In battles of no renown (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The fairies break their dances (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The farms of home lie lost in even (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The first of May (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The grenadier - The Queen she sent to look for me (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The half-moon westers low, my love (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The Isle of Portland -- The star-filled skies (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The lads in their hundreds (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • The lent lily (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The mill stream (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The new mistress - Oh, sick I am to see you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The night is freezing fast (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The olive - The olive in its orchard (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The plain (Text: Ivor Gurney) [x]
  • The ploughman (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The rain, it streams on stone and hillock (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The rainy Pleiads wester (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The recruit - Leave your home behind, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • There pass the careless people (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The sigh that heaves the grasses (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The street sounds to the soldiers' tread (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The weeping Pleiads wester (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The winds out of the west land blow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The world goes none the lamer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Think no more, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • This time of year a twelvemonth past (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • 'Tis five years since, "An end," said I (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
  • Trees (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Twice a week the winter through (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Wake not for the world-heard thunder (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Walking song (Text: Ivor Gurney)
  • Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • Westward on the high-hilled plain (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When Adam walked in Eden young (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When first my way to fair I took (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When green buds hang in the elm like dust (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When I came last to Ludlow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When Israel out of Egypt came (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
  • When I watch the living meet (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When I would muse in boyhood (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When summer's end is nighing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When the eye of day is shut (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • When the lad for longing sighs (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • White in the moon the long road lies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • With seed the sowers scatter (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Yonder see the morning blink (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Yon flakes that fret the eastern sky (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Young is the blood that yonder (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

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