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)
• 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)
• 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) FRE GER
• 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) 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 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
• Three Rondels
• no. 1. Roundel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
• no. 2. Welcome sooner (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer) [x]
• no. 3. Of her mercy (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer) [x]
• 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
• no. ?. Wild almond (scherzo) (Text: Herbert Trench)
• 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
• 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. 105 (Text: 15^th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
• A Lye-Wake, P. 326 (Text: 15^th 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) 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 Three 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) FRE GER
• Eilidh my Fawn (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• 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) 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Three 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 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) [x]
• 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) 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)
• Thy dark eyes to mine (in A Celtic Song-Cycle) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) FRE
• To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) 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 (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
• Welcome sooner (in Three Rondels) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer) [x]
• 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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