Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Crosse

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 3 songs to Medieval French Texts, op. 14b
• no. 1. Aube (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 2. Motet One (Text: 12th century) [x]
• no. 3. Motet Two (Text: 12th century) [x]
• Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle, op. 17
• no. 1. Sancte Thomas ora pro nobis (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 2. Prayer: The night is come (Text: Thomas Browne, Sir)
• no. 3. Prayer: God be in my head, and in my understanding (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 4. Prayer: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 5. Nurse's Song: When voices of children are heard on the green (Text: William Blake)
• no. 6. Bellman's Song: Along the dark and silent night (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 7. Epitaph: O mortal folk, you may behold and see (Text: Stephen Hawes) GER
• no. 8. Round: Hey nonny no!
• no. 9. Wake all the dead (Text: William D'Avenant, Sir)
• no. 10. Like to the lightning from the sky (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 11. The Door of Death (Text: William Blake)
• no. 12. A New Year Carol (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Four songs
• no. ?. Allie (Text: Robert Graves)
• no. ?. The frog prince (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. ?. The cool web (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• no. ?. Vanity (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• Meet My Folks
• no. 1. Dedication (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 2. Sister Jane (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 3. My Grandpa (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 4. My Grandma (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 5. Brother Bert (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 6. My Aunt (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• no. 7. My Father (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• The New World
• no. 1. It is not long (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• no. 2. When the star was on her brow (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• no. 3. A star stands on her forehead (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• no. 4. I said goodbye to Earth (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• no. 5. The street was empty (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• no. 6. Where did we go? (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• Voices from the Tomb, op. 36a
• no. 1. A soul earthbound by the grievance of never having been important (Text: Stevie Smith)
• no. 2. The Blue from Heaven (A Legend of King Arthur of Britain) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 3. Poor soul, poor girl! (A Debutante) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 4. I trod a foreign path (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 5. Avondall (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 6. I died for lack of company (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• no. 7. The frog prince (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Allie (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves)
• A New Year Carol, op. 17 no. 12 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• A soul earthbound by the grievance of never having been important, op. 36a no. 1 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith)
• A star stands on her forehead (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• Aube, op. 14b no. 1 (in 3 songs to Medieval French Texts) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Avondall, op. 36a no. 5 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Bellman's Song: Along the dark and silent night, op. 17 no. 6 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Brother Bert (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• Dedication (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• Epitaph: O mortal folk, you may behold and see, op. 17 no. 7 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Stephen Hawes) GER
• I died for lack of company, op. 36a no. 6 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• I said goodbye to Earth (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• It is not long (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• I trod a foreign path, op. 36a no. 4 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Like to the lightning from the sky, op. 17 no. 10 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Motet One, op. 14b no. 2 (in 3 songs to Medieval French Texts) (Text: 12th century) [x]
• Motet Two, op. 14b no. 3 (in 3 songs to Medieval French Texts) (Text: 12th century) [x]
• My Aunt (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• My Father (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• My Grandma (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• My Grandpa (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• Nurse's Song: When voices of children are heard on the green, op. 17 no. 5 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: William Blake)
• Poor soul, poor girl! (A Debutante), op. 36a no. 3 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• Prayer: God be in my head, and in my understanding, op. 17 no. 3 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Prayer: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, op. 17 no. 4 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Prayer: The night is come, op. 17 no. 2 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Thomas Browne, Sir)
• Round: Hey nonny no!, op. 17 no. 8 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle)
• Sancte Thomas ora pro nobis, op. 17 no. 1 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Sister Jane (in Meet My Folks) (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• The Blue from Heaven (A Legend of King Arthur of Britain), op. 36a no. 2 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• The cool web (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• The Demon of Adachigahara (Text: Ted Hughes) [x]*
• The Door of Death, op. 17 no. 11 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: William Blake)
• The frog prince (in Four songs) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• The frog prince, op. 36a no. 7 (in Voices from the Tomb) (Text: Stevie Smith) [x]
• The history of the flood (Text: John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs) [x]*
• The street was empty (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• Vanity (in Four songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
• Wake all the dead, op. 17 no. 9 (in Changes - A Nocturnal Cycle) (Text: William D'Avenant, Sir)
• When the star was on her brow (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *
• Where did we go? (in The New World) (Text: Ted Hughes) *

Last update: 2023-02-10 18:04:00