Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Brian

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Symphony no. 5 [previously no. 6]
• Wine of Summer (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
• Three Songs
• no. 1. Day and night (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• no. 2. When I lie still (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• no. 3. If I could speak (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• Three Songs
• no. 1. At candlelight (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• no. 2. Without you (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• no. 3. Betrothal (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• Three Songs for Medium Voice
• no. 1. Renunciation (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• no. 2. Lady Ellayne (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• no. 3. The defiled sanctuary (Text: William Blake)
• When the Sun goes down, Three Songs for Medium Voice
• no. 1. When the sun goes down (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• no. 2. On parting (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• no. 3. Love is a merry game (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

• A child's prayer (Text: Matilda Betham-Edwards)
• Ah! County Guy (Text: Anonymous)
• At candlelight (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• Betrothal (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• Call for the Robin-Redbreast (Text: John Webster)
• Day and night (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• Goodbye to Summer (Text: William Allingham)
• If I could speak (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• If I had but two little wings (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge , as Cordomi)
• I know and you (Text: Frederick G. Bowles) [x]
• In a fairy boat (Text: Bernard Weller)
• Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
• I shot an Arrow (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
• Lady Ellayne (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
• Love is a merry game (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CAT FRE
• On parting (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• Pastoral - The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
• Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Renunciation (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• Sands o' Dee (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• Since love is dead (Text: Frederick G. Bowles) [x]
• Sonnet: Care-charmer sleep (Text: Samuel Daniel) GER
• Sorrow Song (Text: Samuel Daniel)
• Spring - Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake) GER
• Take, oh take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• The birds (Text: William Blake)
• The blossom (Text: William Blake)
• The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
• The defiled sanctuary (Text: William Blake)
• The dream (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
• The echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
• The fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
• The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The land of dreams (Text: William Blake)
• The little black boy (Text: William Blake)
• The little boy found (Text: William Blake)
• The little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
• The Lost Doll (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• The Mad Maid's Song (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The Night Piece (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The Phantom-Wooer (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• The Soul of Steel (Text: Christopher M Masterman) [x]
• To an Isle in the Water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI
• Today and Tomorrow (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]
• What does little birdie say (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
• When I lie still (Text: Gerald Cumberland) [x]
• When the sun goes down (Text: Wilhelmina Mary Ayrston , as Temple Keble) [x]
• Why dost thou wound, and break my heart? (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Wine of Summer (Text: Alfred Bruce Douglas, Lord)
• Without you (Text: John Edward Gunby Hadath) [x]

• op. 6. Three songs
  • no. 1. Sorrow song (Text: Samuel Daniel) [x]
  • no. 2. Nocturnal (Text: John Donne)
  • no. 2. The message (Text: John Donne)
  • no. 3. Farewell (Text: Reginald Heber, Church of England's Lord Bishop of Kolkota ) [x]
• op. 13a. Soliloquy upon a dead child (Text: Richard Le Gallienne after Hafis) [x] ⊗
• op. 13c. A faery song (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE

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