Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Boughton

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Five Celtic Songs
• no. 1. Green branches (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• no. 2. Daughter of the Sun (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• no. 3. Tragic lullaby (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• no. 4. Shule agrah (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• no. 5. My grief (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• Five Partsongs
• Early morn (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Five Songs
• no. 1. God (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• no. 2. The captive (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• no. 3. Pedlar's song (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• no. 4. The traitor (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• no. 5. Treasures (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• Five Songs
• no. 1. Sunset (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• no. 2. The emigrant (Text: John Masefield)
• no. 3. Alone (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. By the blackthorn (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
• no. 5. Laugh and be merry (Text: John Masefield)
• Four Everyman Songs
• no. 1. Dance of Death [x]
• no. 2. Inconstancy [x]
• no. 3. Angel's song [x]
• no. 4. Soul rest [x]
• Four Faery Songs
• no. 1. Shed no tear (Text: John Keats)
• no. 2. Ah! woe is me! (Text: John Keats)
• no. 3. Unfelt, unheard, unseen (Text: John Keats)
• no. 4. The witching hour (Text: John Keats)
• Four Partsongs
• Quick march (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Four songs, op. 24
• no. 1. To Freedom (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• no. 2. The dead Christ (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• no. 3. Fly messenger (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• no. 4. Standing beyond Time (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Six Celtic Choruses
• Dalua (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• A Celtic Lullaby (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• Avalon (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• A Sea Rune (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• Six songs of manhood, op. 17
• no. 1. The great grey mother (Text: Rutland Boughton) [x]
• no. 2. Sea grave (Text: William Ernest Henley) [x]
• no. 3. Song of the labourer (Text: Ellwyn Hoffmann) [x]
• no. 4. The Love of Comrades (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 5. In Prison (Text: William Morris)
• no. 6. Man and Men (Text: George Meredith)
• Six Spiritual Songs
• St. Bride's milking song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Song of Easter (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• The bird of Christ (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• St. Bride's Cradle Song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs, op. 34a
• no. 1. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
• no. 2. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
• no. 3. Spring (Text: William Blake) GER
• no. 4. The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
• no. 5. The little boy found (Text: William Blake)
• no. 6. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• Songs of the English
• no. 1. Fair is our lot (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 2. The coastwise lights (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 3. The Price of the Admiralty (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Songs of Womanhood, op. 33
• no. 1. Prayer to Isis (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• no. 2. A woman to her lover (Text: Christina Walshe)
• no. 3. A song of giving (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• no. 4. A song of taking (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• no. 5. Woman's song of Creation (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• Symbol Songs
• no. 1. Mother Mary (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• no. 2. Honeysuckle (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• no. 3. Blue in the woods (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• no. 4. Fierce love song (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• no. 5. The new Madonna (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• The Immortal Hour
• Faery song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Three Baby Songs
• no. 1. In a garden (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• no. 2. A cycle of roundels (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne) [x]
• no. 3. Baby-Bird (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Three Hardy Songs
• no. 1. A Song of Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Evensong (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• no. 3. Foreboding (Text: Thomas Hardy) CAT
• Three Partsongs
• The donkey (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
• The gentle heart (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Guido Guinizzelli)
• Three songs, op. 39
• no. 1. The Lake of Beauty (Text: Edward Carpenter)
• no. 2. Child of the lonely heart (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• no. 3. The triumph of civilisation (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Two Duets for Soprano and Contralto
• no. 1. Clouds (Text: William Henry Davies)
• no. 2. The green tent (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. At Grafton (Text: John Drinkwater)
• no. 2. The Feckenham Men (Text: John Drinkwater)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Celtic Lullaby (in Six Celtic Choruses) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• A cycle of roundels (in Three Baby Songs) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne) [x]
• Ah! woe is me! (in Four Faery Songs) (Text: John Keats)
• Alone (in Five Songs) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Angel's song (in Four Everyman Songs) [x]
• Apollo (Text: Henry Bryan Binns) [x]
• A Sea Rune (in Six Celtic Choruses) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• A sight in camp (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A song of cider (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [x]
• A song of giving, op. 33 no. 3 (in Songs of Womanhood) (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• A Song of Lyonnesse (in Three Hardy Songs) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A song of taking, op. 33 no. 4 (in Songs of Womanhood) (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• At Grafton (in Two Songs) (Text: John Drinkwater)
• Avalon (in Six Celtic Choruses) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• A woman to her lover, op. 33 no. 2 (in Songs of Womanhood) (Text: Christina Walshe)
• Baby-Bird (in Three Baby Songs) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Blue in the woods (in Symbol Songs) (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• By the blackthorn (in Five Songs) (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
• Child of the lonely heart, op. 39 no. 2 (in Three songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Clouds (in Two Duets for Soprano and Contralto) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Clown's congé (Text: Montagu Slater) [x]
• Dalua (in Six Celtic Choruses) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Dance of Death (in Four Everyman Songs) [x]
• Daughter of the Sun (in Five Celtic Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Early morn (in Five Partsongs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Eros (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
• Evensong (in Three Hardy Songs) (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• Faery song (in The Immortal Hour) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Fair is our lot (in Songs of the English) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Fierce love song (in Symbol Songs) (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• Fly messenger, op. 24 no. 3 (in Four songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Foam song (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock) [x]
• Foreboding (in Three Hardy Songs) (Text: Thomas Hardy) CAT
• God (in Five Songs) (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• Green branches (in Five Celtic Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Holiness (Text: John Drinkwater)
• Holy Thursday, op. 34b (Two Duets) no. 2 (Text: William Blake)
• Honeysuckle (in Symbol Songs) (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• In a garden (in Three Baby Songs) (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Inconstancy (in Four Everyman Songs) [x]
• Infant Joy, op. 34a no. 2 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• In Prison, op. 17 no. 5 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: William Morris)
• Into the Twilight (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Joy is fleet (Text: George Meredith)
• Laugh and be merry (in Five Songs) (Text: John Masefield)
• Little Billee (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
• Lorna's song (Text: Richard Doddridge Blackmore)
• Love at sea (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne after Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier) CAT GER GER GER ITA
• Maiden's song (Text: William Blake)
• Man and Men, op. 17 no. 6 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: George Meredith)
• May and Death (Text: Robert Browning)
• Midnight (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Morning song [x]
• Mother Mary (in Symbol Songs) (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• My grief (in Five Celtic Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• Passing joys [x]
• Pedlar's song (in Five Songs) (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• Piper's song, op. 34b (Two Duets) no. 1 (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Prayer to Isis, op. 33 no. 1 (in Songs of Womanhood) (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]
• Quick march (in Four Partsongs ) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Sea grave, op. 17 no. 2 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: William Ernest Henley) [x]
• Shed no tear (in Four Faery Songs) (Text: John Keats)
• Shule agrah (in Five Celtic Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Sister Rain (Text: Henry Bryan Binns) [x]
• Song of Easter (in Six Spiritual Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Song of the labourer, op. 17 no. 3 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: Ellwyn Hoffmann) [x]
• Soul rest (in Four Everyman Songs) [x]
• Spring, op. 34a no. 3 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake) GER
• Standing beyond Time, op. 24 no. 4 (in Four songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• St. Bride's Cradle Song (in Six Spiritual Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• St. Bride's milking song (in Six Spiritual Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• Sunset (in Five Songs) (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• Sweet ass (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• Sweet evenings (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• The bird of Christ (in Six Spiritual Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• The blossom, op. 34a no. 1 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• The captive (in Five Songs) (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• The cloud (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• The coastwise lights (in Songs of the English) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• The dead Christ, op. 24 no. 2 (in Four songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• The donkey (in Three Partsongs) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
• The emigrant (in Five Songs) (Text: John Masefield)
• The faery people (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb) [x]
• The Feckenham Men (in Two Songs) (Text: John Drinkwater)
• The fox (Text: Gerald Griffin) [x]
• The gentle heart (in Three Partsongs) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Guido Guinizzelli)
• The great grey mother, op. 17 no. 1 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: Rutland Boughton) [x]
• The green tent (in Two Duets for Soprano and Contralto) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• The Invincible Armada, op. 12 (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton after Friedrich von Schiller)
• The Lake of Beauty, op. 39 no. 1 (in Three songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter)
• The lamb, op. 34a no. 6 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The little boy found, op. 34a no. 5 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• The little boy lost, op. 34a no. 4 (in Songs of Childhood, or Six Unison Songs) (Text: William Blake)
• The Love of Comrades, op. 17 no. 4 (in Six songs of manhood) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The Midnight Wind (Text: William Motherwell)
• The new Madonna (in Symbol Songs) (Text: Mary Richardson) [x]
• The Price of the Admiralty (in Songs of the English) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• The skeleton in armor, op. 2 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The street (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The Tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
• The traitor (in Five Songs) (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• The triumph of civilisation, op. 39 no. 3 (in Three songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• The wind (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• The witching hour (in Four Faery Songs) (Text: John Keats)
• Thou and I (Text: Edward King) [x]
• To Freedom, op. 24 no. 1 (in Four songs) (Text: Edward Carpenter) [x]
• Tragic lullaby (in Five Celtic Songs) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
• Treasures (in Five Songs) (Text: Joe Corrie) [x]
• Unfelt, unheard, unseen (in Four Faery Songs) (Text: John Keats)
• Woman's song of Creation, op. 33 no. 5 (in Songs of Womanhood) (Text: Christina Walshe) [x]

Last update: 2024-09-28 04:17:53