Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Bush

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Alan Dudley Bush (1900 - 1995)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered), op. 86

no. 1. El pueblo (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
no. 2. Nada mas (Text: Pablo Neruda) [x]*
no. 3. El perezoso (Text: Pablo Neruda) *

Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book') [multi-composer]

no. 1. Prelude: Sechs Schritte her, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)
no. 2. Song, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)
no. 3. Interlude, composed by Alan Rawsthorne (Text: Ernst Toller)
no. 4. Über mir, composed by Alan Rawsthorne (Text: Ernst Toller)
no. 5. Postlude: Sechs Schritte her, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)

Songs of the Doomed, op. 14

no. 1. Despair is at heart and hatred for ever (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
no. 2. When daylight's breaking (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
no. 3. Here they lie, not nice to see (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
no. 4. Epilogue - Hush be still you bitter strings (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*

Two Shakespeare Sonnets, op. 92

no. 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
no. 2. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA POL

Two Songs [lost], op. 7

no. 1. The moth (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 2. Heard on a saltmarsh (Text: Harold Monro) [x]

Voices of the Prophets, op. 41

no. 1. For behold (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. So at length the spirit of man (Text: John Milton)
no. 3. Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age! (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. Over the years (Text: Peter Blackmore) *

Woman's Life, op. 87

no. 1. Prologue (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 2. Weaving song (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 3. Factory Day (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
no. 4. Epilogue (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Despair is at heart and hatred for ever, op. 14 no. 1 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
Down by the Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
During music (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
El perezoso, op. 86 no. 3 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
El pueblo, op. 86 no. 1 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
Epilogue - Hush be still you bitter strings, op. 14 no. 4 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*
Epilogue, op. 87 no. 4 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
Factory Day, op. 87 no. 3 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
For behold, op. 41 no. 1 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Heard on a saltmarsh, op. 7 no. 2 (in Two Songs [lost]) (Text: Harold Monro) [x]
Here they lie, not nice to see, op. 14 no. 3 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, op. 92 no. 2 (in Two Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA POL
Nada mas, op. 86 no. 2 (in De Plenos Poderes (From Fully Empowered)) (Text: Pablo Neruda) [x]*
Over the years, op. 41 no. 4 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: Peter Blackmore) *
Postlude: Sechs Schritte her (in Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book')) (Text: Ernst Toller)
Prelude: Sechs Schritte her, op. 19 no. 1 (in Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book')) (Text: Ernst Toller)
Prologue, op. 87 no. 1 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!, op. 41 no. 3 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: William Blake)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, op. 92 no. 1 (in Two Shakespeare Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
So at length the spirit of man, op. 41 no. 2 (in Voices of the Prophets) (Text: John Milton)
Song, op. 19 no. 2 (in Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book')) (Text: Ernst Toller)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE HUN ITA
The moth, op. 7 no. 1 (in Two Songs [lost]) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Weaving song, op. 87 no. 2 (in Woman's Life) (Text: Nancy Bush) [x]*
When daylight's breaking, op. 14 no. 2 (in Songs of the Doomed) (Text: Frederick C. Boden) [x]*

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