Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Frances-Hoad

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Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980)

Website: https://www.cherylfranceshoad.co.uk

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Beowulf

no. 1. So (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 2. Grendel (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 3. For twelve winters (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 5. In off the moors (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 6. Then his rage (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 7. When Hrothgar arrived (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 8. Hildeburgh (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 9. [No title]
no. 10. A lot was to happen (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 11. He rippled down the rock (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 12. Then he drew himself up (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 13. For fifty years (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
no. 15. The Geat People (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*

Magic Lantern Tales

no. 1. Marching Through Time (Text: Ian McMillan) *
no. 2. Lily Maynard (Text: Ian McMillan) *
no. 3. The Ballad of Harry Holmes (Text: Ian McMillan) *
no. 4. Mabel Walsh (Text: Ian McMillan) *

One Life Stand

no. 1. Brief Encounter (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 2. The Pros and the Cons (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 3. Tide to Land (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 4. Ante-Natal (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 5. The Shadow-Tree (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 6. Rubbish at Adultery (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 7. The Chill (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
no. 8. The Cycle (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*

Six Songs of Melmoth

no. 1. The Painting (Narrator) 1816 (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
no. 2. Shipwreck Gossip (Old Biddy Brannington) 1816 (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
no. 3. Elinora's Letter (some salt-water damage to the text) 1516 (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
no. 4. City of song-ghosts (narrator reprise) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
no. 5. Deliverance (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
no. 6. Melmoth's serenade (2020) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *

The Thought Machine

no. 1. Telescope (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 2. Night Journey (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 3. Skig the Warrior (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 4. Rita the Pirate (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 5. New Moon (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 6. Machine (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 7. Shadow Boy (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 8. Hamster Man (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 9. Thief (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
no. 10. Comet (Text: Kate Wakeling) *

Two Shakespeare Songs

no. 1. Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER GER GER
no. 2. They bore him barefaced on the bier (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER GER GER GER HEB POL

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A lot was to happen (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Ante-Natal (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
Brief Encounter (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
City of song-ghosts (narrator reprise) (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
Comet (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Deliverance (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
Elinora's Letter (some salt-water damage to the text) 1516 (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
For fifty years (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
For twelve winters (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Grendel (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Hamster Man (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
He rippled down the rock (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Hildeburgh (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
In off the moors (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Lily Maynard (in Magic Lantern Tales) (Text: Ian McMillan) *
Mabel Walsh (in Magic Lantern Tales) (Text: Ian McMillan) *
Machine (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Marching Through Time (in Magic Lantern Tales) (Text: Ian McMillan) *
Melmoth's serenade (2020) (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
New Moon (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Night Journey (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Rita the Pirate (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Rubbish at Adultery (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
Shadow Boy (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Shipwreck Gossip (Old Biddy Brannington) 1816 (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
Skig the Warrior (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
So (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Telescope (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
The Ballad of Harry Holmes (in Magic Lantern Tales) (Text: Ian McMillan) *
The Chill (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
The Cycle (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
The Geat People (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Then he drew himself up (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
Then his rage (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
The Painting (Narrator) 1816 (in Six Songs of Melmoth ) (Text: Sophie Rashbrook) *
The Pros and the Cons (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
The Shadow-Tree (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
They bore him barefaced on the bier (in Two Shakespeare Songs) (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER GER GER GER HEB POL
Thief (in The Thought Machine) (Text: Kate Wakeling) *
Tide to Land (in One Life Stand) (Text: Sophie Hannah) [x]*
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day (in Two Shakespeare Songs) (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER GER GER
When Hrothgar arrived (in Beowulf) (Text: Seamus Heaney after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗*
You promised me everything last night
[No title] (in Beowulf)

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