Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Dring
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick
- no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
- no. 2. To the virgins, to make much of time (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
- no. 3. To the willow tree (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 4. To music - to becalm a sweetsick youth (Text: Robert Herrick)
- no. 5. To Phillis - to love and live with him (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Five Betjeman Songs
- no. 1. A bay in Anglesey (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- no. 2. Song of a nightclub proprietress (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- no. 3. Business girls (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- no. 4. Undenominational (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- no. 5. Upper Lambourne (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Four Night Songs
- no. 1. Holding the Night (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- no. 2. Frosty night (Text: Michael Armstrong) [x]*
- no. 3. Through the centuries (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- no. 4. Separation (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- Love and Time
- no. 1. Sister, Awake (Text: Thomas Bateson)
- no. 2. Ah, how sweet it is to love! (Text: John Dryden)
- no. 3. I feed a flame within (Text: John Dryden)
- no. 4. The Reconcilement (Text: John Sheffield)
- Seven Shakespeare Songs
- The Cuckoo (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
- Take O take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
- It was a lover (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- Seven Songs
- Encouragements to a Lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
- Melisande, The Far Away Princess (Text: Daniel Ferguson Aitken) *
- Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
- The Faithless Lover (Text: Anonymous) FRE
- Six Songs
- no. . Love is a sickness (Text: Samuel Daniel; Thomas Maske) GER
- no. . Echoes (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER
- no. . The Enchantment (Text: Thomas Otway)
- no. 1. My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A bay in Anglesey (in Five Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Ah, how sweet it is to love! (in Love and Time) (Text: John Dryden)
- Blow, blow thou winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
- Business girls (in Five Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- Crabbed age and youth (Text: Anonymous) FRE
- Echoes (in Six Songs) (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER
- Encouragements to a Lover (in Seven Songs) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
- Frosty night (in Four Night Songs) (Text: Michael Armstrong) [x]*
- Holding the Night (in Four Night Songs) (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- I feed a flame within (in Love and Time) (Text: John Dryden)
- It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- It was a lover (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- Love is a sickness (in Six Songs) (Text: Samuel Daniel; Thomas Maske) GER
- Love Lyric (Text: Joseph Ellison) [x]
- Melisande, The Far Away Princess (in Seven Songs) (Text: Daniel Ferguson Aitken) *
- My true love hath my heart (in Six Songs) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
- Separation (in Four Night Songs) (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- Sister, Awake (in Love and Time) (Text: Thomas Bateson)
- Song of a nightclub proprietress (in Five Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Take O take those lips away (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
- The Cuckoo (in Seven Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
- The Enchantment (in Six Songs) (Text: Thomas Otway)
- The Faithless Lover (in Seven Songs) (Text: Anonymous) FRE
- The pigtail (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
- The Reconcilement (in Love and Time) (Text: John Sheffield)
- This Is the Time (Text: Katharine Tynan , as Katharine Tynan Hinkson) [x]
- Through the centuries (in Four Night Songs) (Text: Michael Armstrong) *
- To daffodils (in Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
- To music - to becalm a sweetsick youth (in Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
- To Phillis - to love and live with him (in Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
- To the virgins, to make much of time (in Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
- To the willow tree (in Dedications: 5 Poems by Robert Herrick) (Text: Robert Herrick)
- Undenominational (in Five Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
- Upper Lambourne (in Five Betjeman Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) *
- Weep you no more, sad fountains (in Seven Songs) (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
Last update: 2026-09-16 01:06:14