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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Edmunds

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John Edmunds (1913 - 1986)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles
    • Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
    • How many times do I love thee, dear (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
    • Hear the voice of the Bard (Text: William Blake)
    • Magna est veritas (Text: Coventry Patmore) DUT
    • Jerusalem (Text: William Blake)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Barney Ross (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Billy Boy (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Come all you fair and tender ladies (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Come away, Death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
  • Every night when the sun goes in (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Fare you well (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Have these for yours (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • Hear the voice of the Bard (in Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles) (Text: William Blake)
  • Helen (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE
  • How many times do I love thee, dear (in Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
  • I know my love (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Instinctively, unwittingly (Text: Lewis) [x]
  • Jerusalem (in Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles) (Text: William Blake)
  • Jesus, Jesus, rest your head (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Kings and Shepherds (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lilliburlero (Text: Lord Thomas Wharton, First Marquess of Wharton PC)
  • Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • Magna est veritas (in Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles) (Text: Coventry Patmore) DUT
  • Milkmaids
  • Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (in Hesperides: Fifty Songs by John Edmunds -- or The Fortunate Isles) (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
  • My gostly fader
  • O Death, rock me asleep (Text: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England)
  • O Love, how strangely sweet (Text: John Marston)
  • On the Truth (Text: Coventry Patmore) [x]
  • On top of Old Smokey (Text: Volkslieder )
  • O Sweet Everlasting Voices (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • Praise we the Lord (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Seal up her eyes (Text: William Cartwright)
  • Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
  • The Ballad of the Cherry Tree
  • The cherry tree (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
  • The Countess Cathleen (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • The crawfish song (Text: Volkslieder )
  • The Daisies (Text: James Stephens) SPA
  • The Drummer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
  • The faucon (Text: Anonymous)
  • The First Day when Christ was Born
  • The Hazel Wood (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER
  • The Isle of Portland (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
  • The lonely (Text: George William Russell) [x]
  • The Resurrection
  • The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
  • The Shepherd Boy Sings (Text: John Bunyan)
  • To Mistress Margaret Falconbridge (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • To Music (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • True love doth pass away (Text: William Blake)
  • Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
  • Wenlock Edge (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
  • Whenas in silks my Julia goes (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • When Daisies Pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
  • Why canst thou not (Text: Samuel Daniel)

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