Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Boughton

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Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960)

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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

no. ?. Early morn (Text: William Henry Davies)

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)

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]

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

no. ?. 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

no. ?. Dalua (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
no. ?. A Celtic Lullaby (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) [x]
no. ?. Avalon (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
no. ?. 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

no. ?. St. Bride's milking song (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
no. ?. Song of Easter (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
no. ?. The bird of Christ (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
no. ?. 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

no. ?. 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)

Three Partsongs

no. ?. The donkey (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton) GER
no. ?. 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)
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 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 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: 2023-05-11 18:19:36