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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Bax

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Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • 5 Traditional Songs of France
    • no. 1. Sarabande (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 2. Langueo d’amours, ma doulce fillette (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 3. Me suis mise en danse (Text: Volkslieder )
    • no. 4. Femmes, battez vos marys (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
    • no. 5. La targo (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • A Celtic Song-Cycle
    • no. 1. Eilidh my Fawn (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 2. Closing doors (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir after William Sharp)
    • no. 3. Thy dark eyes to mine (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) FRE
    • no. 4. A Celtic Lullaby (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 5. At the last (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]
    • no. 1. The White Peace (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 2. A Christmas Carol (Text: 15th-century) FRE GER
    • no. 3. Sheiling song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 4. To Eire (Text: James Henry Cousins)
    • no. 5. The enchanted fiddle (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir)
    • no. 6. A milking Sian (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 7. Roundel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • Five Irish Songs
    • no. 1. The pigeons (Text: Padraic Colum)
    • no. 2. As I came over the grey, grey hills (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil)
    • no. 3. I heard a piper piping (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
    • no. 4. Across the door (Text: Padraic Colum)
    • no. 5. Beg-Innish (Text: John Millington Synge)
  • Nocturnes
    • no. 1. Aufblick (Text: Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel) ENG FRE NOR POL
    • no. 2. Liebesode (Text: Otto Erich Hartleben) CAT ENG ENG ENG FIN FRE ITA POR
  • Six Songs
    • no. 1. The song in the twilight (Text: Freda Bax)
    • no. 2. Golden Guendolen (Text: William Morris)
    • no. 3. The fiddler of Dooney (Text: William Butler Yeats)
    • no. 4. A hushing song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 5. I fear thy kisses (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE RUS
    • no. 6. Echo (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER
  • Six Songs
    • no. 1. Roundel: When we are lost (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Dermot O'Byrne)
    • no. 2. Green branches (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 3. In the silences of the woods (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 4. Leaves, shadows, and dreams (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 5. The grand match (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill) [x]
    • no. 6. The fairies (Text: William Allingham)
  • Songs of the Four Seasons
    • no. 3. In summer-time [x]
  • The Bard of the Dimbovitza
    • no. 1. The well of tears (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
    • no. 2. Gipsy song (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin) GER
    • no. 3. My girdle I hung on a tree top tall (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
    • no. 4. Spinning song (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
    • no. 5. Misconception (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
  • The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE
    • no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
    • no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) CHI FRE GER
    • no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
    • no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Three Irish Songs
    • no. 1. Cradle Song (Text: Padraic Colum)
    • no. 2. Rann of Exile (Text: Padraic Colum)
    • no. 3. Rann of Wandering (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • Three Rondels
    • no. 1. Roundel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
    • no. 2. Welcome, somer (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
    • no. 3. Of her mercy (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer) [x]
  • Three Songs
    • Wild almond (scherzo) (Text: Herbert Trench)
  • Three Songs
    • no. 1. Far in a western brookland (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
    • no. 2. Slumber song (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Sheila McCarthy)
    • no. 3. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
  • Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
    • no. 3. The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
  • Three Songs from the Norse
    • no. 1. Irmelin Rose (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE GER GER
    • no. 2. Lad Vaaren komme (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
    • no. 3. Venevil (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FRE GER
  • Two Recitations for spoken voice and piano
    • no. 1. The blessed damozel (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti) FRE
    • no. 2. The twa corbies (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
  • Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra
    • no. 1. The Rune of Age (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
    • no. 1. Viking-Battle-Song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Two Songs for Voice and String Quartet
    • no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
  • Two Songs from incidental music to the play Golden Eagle
    • no. 1. My faithful fair one (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
    • no. 2. Rizzio's song (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
  • Two Songs of the Spring-Time
    • no. 1. It was a lover (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A Celtic Lullaby (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • A Christmas Carol (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: 15th-century) FRE GER
  • Across the door (in Five Irish Songs) (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • A hushing song (in Six Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • A leader (Text: George William Russell)
  • A lullaby (Text: Sheila MacCarthy)
  • A Lye-Wake, P. 326 (Text: 15th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
  • A Lye-Wake, P. 105 (Text: 15th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
  • A milking Sian (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • An Indian Serenade (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
  • A serenade of spring-time [x]
  • As I came over the grey, grey hills (in Five Irish Songs) (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil)
  • Aspiration (Text: Clifford Bax after Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel) [x] FRE NOR
  • At the last (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Aufblick (in Nocturnes) (Text: Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel) ENG FRE NOR POL
  • A widow bird (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
  • Beg-Innish (in Five Irish Songs) (Text: John Millington Synge)
  • Blow, northern wind (Text: Clifford Bax after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
  • Carrey Clavel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • Closing doors (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir after William Sharp)
  • Cradle Song (in Three Irish Songs) (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • Cytherea's day (Text: Thomas Gray)
  • Das tote Kind (Text: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer)
  • Dermott Donn MacMorna (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • Dream Child (Text: Val Newton) [x]*
  • Du blomst i dug (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG GER GER
  • Echo (in Six Songs) (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER
  • Eilidh my Fawn (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Enchanted Summer, GP 129 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Eternity (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • Far in a western brookland (in Three Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Fatherland (Text: Clifford Bax after Johan Ludvig Runeberg) [x]
  • Femmes, battez vos marys (in 5 Traditional Songs of France) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • For love's sake (Text: Ben Jonson)
  • From the Hills of Dream (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • From the uplands to the sea (Text: William Morris) [x]
  • Frühlingsregen (Text: Friedrich Rückert) CHI ENG FRE
  • Garden song (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir) [x]
  • Gipsy song (in The Bard of the Dimbovitza) (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin) GER
  • Glamour (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Dermot O'Byrne)
  • Golden Guendolen (in Six Songs) (Text: William Morris)
  • Green branches (in Six Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Green grow the rashes O! (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE FRE
  • Heart o'Beauty (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • I fear thy kisses (in Six Songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE RUS
  • I have a house and land in Kent [x]
  • I heard a piper piping (in Five Irish Songs) (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
  • I heard a soldier (Text: Herbert Trench)
  • I know myself no more, my child (Text: George William Russell)
  • I love thee! (Text: Anonymous after Hans Christian Andersen) [x] FRE GER GER IRI JPN
  • In summer-time (in Songs of the Four Seasons) [x]
  • In the morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • In the silences of the woods (in Six Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Irmelin Rose (in Three Songs from the Norse) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE GER GER
  • I sing of a maiden (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
  • Isla (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • It was a lover (in Two Songs of the Spring-Time) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
  • I will dream, I will dream, in my boat (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
  • Lad Vaaren komme (in Three Songs from the Norse) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
  • Landskab (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
  • Langueo d’amours, ma doulce fillette (in 5 Traditional Songs of France) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • La targo (in 5 Traditional Songs of France) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Leaves, shadows, and dreams (in Six Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Liebesode (in Nocturnes) (Text: Otto Erich Hartleben) CAT ENG ENG ENG FIN FRE ITA POR
  • Longing (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Lullaby (in Three Songs) (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Sheila McCarthy)
  • Magnificat (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER LAT SPA
  • Marguerite (Text: William Morris)
  • Me suis mise en danse (in 5 Traditional Songs of France) (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Midsummer (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
  • Misconception (in The Bard of the Dimbovitza) (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
  • Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
  • My eyes for beauty pine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
  • My faithful fair one (in Two Songs from incidental music to the play Golden Eagle) (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
  • My girdle I hung on a tree top tall (in The Bard of the Dimbovitza) (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
  • O dear! What can the matter be? (Text: Volkslieder )
  • O dewy flower (Text: Anonymous after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x] GER GER
  • Of her mercy (in Three Rondels) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer) [x]
  • O mistress mine (in Two Songs for Voice and String Quartet) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
  • On the bridge (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • Out and away (Text: James Stephens)
  • Parting (Text: George William Russell , as A. E.)
  • Phillida and Corydon (Text: Nicholas Breton)
  • Rann of Exile (in Three Irish Songs) (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • Rann of Wandering (in Three Irish Songs) (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • Rizzio's song (in Two Songs from incidental music to the play Golden Eagle) (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]*
  • Roundel: When we are lost (in Six Songs) (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Dermot O'Byrne)
  • Roundel (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (in Three Rondels) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • Sarabande (in 5 Traditional Songs of France) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Say, Myra! why is gentle love a stranger (Text: George, Lord Lyttelton)
  • Sheiling song (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Slumber song (in Three Songs) (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir , as Sheila McCarthy)
  • Spinning song (in The Bard of the Dimbovitza) (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
  • Spring rain (Text: Anonymous after Friedrich Rückert) CHI FRE
  • Summer night (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir) [x]
  • The blessed damozel (in Two Recitations for spoken voice and piano) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti) FRE
  • The enchanted fiddle (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir)
  • The fairies (in Six Songs) (Text: William Allingham)
  • The fiddler of Dooney (in Six Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • The Flute (Ideala) (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FRE GER
  • The Garden by the Sea (Text: William Morris)
  • The grand match (in Six Songs) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill) [x]
  • The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • The morning watch (Text: Henry Vaughan)
  • The pigeons (in Five Irish Songs) (Text: Padraic Colum)
  • The Rune of Age (in Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • The soldier's dream (Text: Thomas Campbell) FRE GER
  • The song in the twilight (in Six Songs) (Text: Freda Bax)
  • The song of the dagger (Text: Alma Strettell; Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin after Volkslieder ) ⊗
  • The splendour falls (in Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
  • The twa corbies (in Two Recitations for spoken voice and piano) (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
  • The well of tears (in The Bard of the Dimbovitza) (Text: Alma Strettell after Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, Prinzessin)
  • The White Peace (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • This worldes joie (Text: Anonymous)
  • Thy dark eyes to mine (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) FRE
  • To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
  • To Eire (in Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs]) (Text: James Henry Cousins)
  • To my homeland (Text: Stephen Lucius Gwynn) [x]
  • To Phyllis (Text: Edward Dyer, Sir)
  • To Russia (Text: John Masefield) [x]
  • To the Cuckoo (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • To the moon (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
  • Treue Liebe (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
  • Venevil (in Three Songs from the Norse) (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FRE GER
  • Viking-Battle-Song (in Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
  • Wanting is -- what? (Text: Robert Browning)
  • Watching the needleboats at San Saba (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • Welcome, somer (in Three Rondels) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • What is it like to be young and fair? (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
  • When I was one-and-twenty (in Three Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
  • Why we love and why we hate (Text: Ambrose Philips)
  • Wild almond (scherzo) (in Three Songs) (Text: Herbert Trench)
  • Youth (Text: Clifford Bax)

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