Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Bush

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Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998)

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A Little Love Music

no. 1. Hide, Absalom, thy guilty tresses clear (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
no. 2. The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r (Text: 15^th century)
no. 3. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)
no. 4. With margerain gentle (Text: John Skelton)
no. 5. Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go! (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. I love and I hate (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) GER ITA SPA
no. 7. And wilt thou leave me thus! (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
no. 8. This is the key of the Kingdom

A Menagerie

Tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS

A Summer Serenade

O rose, thou art sick (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA

Five Medieval Lyrics

no. 1. Colloquy [x]
no. 2. Confession (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
no. 3. Carol
no. 4. The Vanity of Human Wishes (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. Rutterkin (Text: John Skelton)

Five Spring Songs

no. 1. Diaphenia (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
no. 2. Lay a Garland on my Hearse (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
no. 3. What thing is Love? (Text: George Peele)
no. 4. Weep you No More Sad Fountains (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
no. 5. Now the Lusty Spring is Seen (Text: John Fletcher)

Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides'

no. 1. The Impatient Lover (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. Upon the Loss of his Mistresses (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. Upon Julia's Clothes (Text: Robert Herrick)

Seven Greek Love Songs

no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
no. 2. Flowers (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
no. 3. A Curse (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
no. 4. The Mosquito (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
no. 5. Night (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
no. 6. Lullaby (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
no. 7. The Poet's Epitaph (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)

Seven Limericks

The girl with the Tyrian lyre (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)

Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano [multi-composer]

no. 1. Here we come a-piping, composed by Nicholas Marshall (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Anonymous) WEL
no. 2. Cradle Song, composed by Geoffrey Bush (Text: Nerys Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 3. The lamb that e’er the world began (Now carol we), composed by Inglis Gundry (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. To Musick, composed by John Golland (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Song at evening, composed by Geoffrey Kimpton (Text: Audrey Duggan) *
no. 6. In the still air, composed by David Campbell Dorward (Text: Horatius Bonar)
no. 7. I know a bank, composed by Betty Roe (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

Songs of the Zodiac

no. 1. Aries: the Ram (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 2. Gemini: the Twins (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 3. Taurus: the Bull (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 4. Cancer: the Crab (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 5. Leo: the Lion (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 6. Virgo: the Virgin (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 7. Libra: the Scales (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 8. Scorpio: the Scorpion (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 9. Sagittarius: the Archer (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 10. Capricorn: the Goat (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 11. Aquarius: the Water-carrier (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
no. 12. Pisces: the Fish (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *

Songs of wonder

no. 1. Here comes a lusty wooer (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Polly Pillicote (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. The wonder of wonders (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. The little nut-tree (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT

The End of Love

no. 1. Lament (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 2. Far-darting Apollo (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 3. The end of love (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 4. Introspection (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

Three Elizabethan Songs

Stay o sweet (Text: John Donne)

Three Songs of Ben Jonson

no. 1. Echo's Lament for Narcissus (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 2. The Kiss (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 3. A Rebuke (Text: Ben Jonson) GER

Two Shelley Songs for SATB a cappella

no. 2. Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A Curse (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
And wilt thou leave me thus! (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
Aquarius: the Water-carrier (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
A Rebuke (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
Aries: the Ram (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
A song of praise (Text: George Herbert)
Avondale (Text: Stevie Smith)
Cancer: the Crab (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Capricorn: the Goat (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Carol (in Five Medieval Lyrics)
Colloquy (in Five Medieval Lyrics) [x]
Confession (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
Cradle Song (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: Nerys Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Cradle Song (in Seven Short Songs for voice, recorder and piano) (Text: Anonymous) WEL
Cuisine Provençale (Text: Virginia Woolf)
Diaphenia (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: Henry Constable; Henry Chettle) FRE
Earth has grain to grow (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
Echo's Lament for Narcissus (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson)
Fanfare (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
Far-darting Apollo (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Flowers (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
Gemini: the Twins (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Here comes a lusty wooer (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
Hide, Absalom, thy guilty tresses clear (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
I love and I hate (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) GER ITA SPA
Introspection (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
Lament (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Lay a Garland on my Hearse (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
Leo: the Lion (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Libra: the Scales (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Love for such a cherry lip (Text: Thomas Middleton)
Lullaby (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
Merciless Beauty (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
Merry Margaret (in A Little Love Music) (Text: John Skelton)
Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
My Cats (Text: Stevie Smith)
Night (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara) FRE
Now the Lusty Spring is Seen (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: John Fletcher)
Old Abram Brown (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
O rose, thou art sick (in A Summer Serenade) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
O, the Month of May (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Ozymandias (in Two Shelley Songs for SATB a cappella) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
Pisces: the Fish (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Polly Pillicote (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
Rutterkin (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: John Skelton)
Sagittarius: the Archer (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Scorpio: the Scorpion (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
Stay o sweet (in Three Elizabethan Songs) (Text: John Donne)
Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go! (in A Little Love Music) (Text: Anonymous)
Taurus: the Bull (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The end of love (in The End of Love) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
The girl with the Tyrian lyre (in Seven Limericks) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
The Impatient Lover (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
The Kiss (in Three Songs of Ben Jonson) (Text: Ben Jonson)
The little nut-tree (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT
The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r (in A Little Love Music) (Text: 15^th century)
The Mosquito (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
The Poet's Epitaph (in Seven Greek Love Songs) (Text: Dudley Fitts after Meleager of Gadara)
There is a garden in her face (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
The Vanity of Human Wishes (in Five Medieval Lyrics) (Text: Anonymous)
The wonder of wonders (in Songs of wonder) (Text: Volkslieder )
This is the key of the Kingdom (in A Little Love Music)
Tiger (in A Menagerie) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
To Electra (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
Upon Julia's Clothes (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
Upon the Loss of his Mistresses (in Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides') (Text: Robert Herrick)
Virgo: the Virgin (in Songs of the Zodiac) (Text: David Emery Gascoyne) *
Weep you No More Sad Fountains (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
What thing is Love? (in Five Spring Songs) (Text: George Peele)
With margerain gentle (in A Little Love Music) (Text: John Skelton)

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