Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Elgar
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Cycle, op. 59
- no. 3. Oh, soft was the song (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- no. 5. Was it some Golden Star? (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- no. 6. Twilight (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, op. 45
- no. 1. Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- no. 2. Whether I find thee bright with fair (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- no. 3. "After many a dusty mile" (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- no. 4. It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- no. 5. Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ⊗
- From the Bavarian Highlands, op. 27
- no. 1. The dance (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- no. 2. False love (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- no. 3. Lullaby (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- no. 4. Aspiration (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- no. 5. On the alm (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- no. 6. The marksmen (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Grania and Diarmid, op. 42
- no. 3. There are seven that pull the thread (Text: William Butler Yeats)
- King Olaf, op. 30
- no. 1. Introduction (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 3. King Olaf's Return (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 4. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 5. The conversion (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 6. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 7. Gudrun (Scene) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 8. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 9. The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 10. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 11. Sigrid (Scene) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 12. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 13. Thyri (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 14. Duet (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 15. Choral recitative (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- no. 16. The Death of Olaf (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- no. 17. Epilogue (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
- Pageant of Empire
- no. 1. Shakespeare's Kingdom (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
- no. 2. The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- no. 3. The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- no. 4. The Heart of Canada (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- no. 5. Sailing westward (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- no. 6. Merchant adventurers (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- no. 7. The Immortal Legions (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- no. 8. A Song of Union (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- Sea Pictures (Imatges del mar, translated by Salvador Pila) (Bilder vom Meer , translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 37 CAT GER
- no. 1. Sea slumber song (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel) CAT GER ITA
- no. 2. In Haven (Capri) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) CAT GER ITA
- no. 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CAT GER GER ITA
- no. 4. Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA
- no. 5. The swimmer (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) CAT GER ITA
- Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
- no. 1. Like to the damask rose (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
- no. 1. Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
- no. 2. Queen Mary's Song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
- no. 2. Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
- no. 3. A song of Autumn (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
- no. 3. Herbstlied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
- no. 4. The Poet's Life (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
- no. 4. Dichterleben (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
- no. 5. Through the Long Days (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
- no. 5. Tage und Jahre gehen (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
- no. 6. Rondel (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) GER
- no. 6. Rondel (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
- no. 7. The shepherd's song (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER SPA
- no. 7. Des Schäfers Lied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA
- The Fringes of the Fleet
- no. 1. The Lowestoft Boat (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 2. Fate's discourtesy (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 3. Submarines (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 4. The sweepers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- no. 5. Inside the bar (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- The Mill Wheel
- no. 1. Winter (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- no. 2. May (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- The Spirit of England
- no. 1. The Fourth of August (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- no. 2. To women (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- no. 3. For the Fallen (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- The Starlight Express, op. 78
- no. 1. To the children (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 2. The Blue-Eyes Fairy (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 3. The curfew song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 4. The laugher (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 5. Come little winds (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 6. Tears and laughter (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 7. Dawn song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 8. My old tunes (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 9. Dandelions, daffodils (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 10. Laugh a little ev'ry day (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 11. The dawn (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 12. Oh, think Beauty (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- no. 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- 1588 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- A child asleep (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- A Christmas greeting, op. 52 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- "After many a dusty mile", op. 45 no. 3 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- After, op. 31 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Philip Bourke Marston)
- Always and Everywhere (Text: Frank H. Fortey after Zygmunt Krasiński)
- A phylactery (Text: John Hay, Col.)
- Arabian Serenade (Text: Margery Harriet Lawrence)
- As I laye a-thynkynge (Text: Richard Harris Barham , as Thomas Ingoldsby)
- A soldier's song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
- A song of Autumn (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
- A Song of Flight, op. 31 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- A Song of Union (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- A spear, a sword (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- Aspiration, op. 27 no. 4 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- As torrents in summer (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
- Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER
- A war song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
- Big Steamers (Text: Rudyard Kipling) CZE
- Callicles (Text: Matthew Arnold)
- Carillon, op. 75 (Text: Émile Cammaerts)
- Choral recitative, op. 30 no. 15 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Clapham Town End (Text: Volkslieder )
- Come, gentle night! (Text: Clifton Bingham)
- Come little winds, op. 78 no. 5 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- Dandelions, daffodils, op. 78 no. 9 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- Dawn song, op. 78 no. 7 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- Death on the hills, op. 72 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov)
- Deep in my soul, op. 53 no. 2 (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER GER
- Des Schäfers Lied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA
- Dichterleben (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
- Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (Text: Henry King)
- Duet, op. 30 no. 14 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
- Epilogue, op. 30 no. 17 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
- Evening scene
- False love, op. 27 no. 2 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Fate's discourtesy (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- Fear not, o land (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
- Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye, op. 45 no. 5 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ⊗
- Fight for right (Text: William Morris)
- Fly, singing bird, fly, op. 26 no. 2 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Follow the colours (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
- For the Fallen (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
- Goodmorrow (Text: George Gascoigne)
- Go, song of mine, op. 57 (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- Gudrun (Scene), op. 30 no. 7 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Herbstlied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
- How calmly the evening (Text: Thomas Toke Lynch)
- If she love me [x]
- In Haven (Capri), op. 37 no. 2 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) CAT GER ITA
- In Moonlight (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE
- Inside the bar (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- In the dawn, op. 41 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
- Introduction, op. 30 no. 1 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Is she not passing fair? (Text: Louisa Stuart Costello after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
- It isnae me (Text: Sally Holmes)
- It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun, op. 45 no. 4 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder), op. 78 no. 13 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- King Olaf's Return, op. 30 no. 3 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Land of Hope and Glory (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
- Laugh a little ev'ry day, op. 78 no. 10 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- Le drapeau belge, op. 79 (Text: Émile Cammaerts) [x]
- Like to the damask rose (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
- Love alone will stay (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Love's tempest, op. 73 no. 1 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov)
- Love, op. 18 no. 2 (Text: Arthur Maquarie)
- Lullaby, op. 27 no. 3 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Marching song (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
- Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
- May (in The Mill Wheel) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- Merchant adventurers (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- Modest and Fair (Text: Ben Jonson)
- Muleteer's serenade (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
- My love dwelt in a Northern land (Text: Andrew Lang) DUT
- My old tunes, op. 78 no. 8 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- O happy eyes, op. 18 no. 1 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Oh, soft was the song, op. 59 no. 3 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- Oh, think Beauty, op. 78 no. 12 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- On the alm, op. 27 no. 5 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- Over all this home-land of our fathers (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
- O wild West Wind, op. 53 no. 3 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) HUN
- Owls, op. 53 no. 4 (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir) GER
- Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
- Pleading, op. 48 no. 1 (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon)
- Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode (Text: John Masefield)
- Queen Mary's Song (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
- Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 4 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 6 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 12 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 8 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 10 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- Rondel, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 3 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) GER
- Rondel (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
- Rondel (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
- Sabbath Morning at Sea, op. 37 no. 3 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CAT GER GER ITA
- Sailing westward (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- Sea slumber song , op. 37 no. 1 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel) CAT GER ITA
- Serenade, op. 73 no. 2 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin) ⊗
- Shakespeare's Kingdom (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
- Sigrid (Scene), op. 30 no. 11 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Spanish serenade, op. 23 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
- Speak, music, op. 41 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
- Speak, my heart (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
- Still to be neat (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
- Submarines (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- Tage und Jahre gehen (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
- Tarantella (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
- Tears and laughter, op. 78 no. 6 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- The black knight, op. 25 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Johann Ludwig Uhland) FRE
- The Blue-Eyes Fairy, op. 78 no. 2 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- The brook (Text: Ellen Soule) [x]
- The chariots of the Lord (Text: John Brownlie, D.D.)
- The conversion, op. 30 no. 5 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- The curfew song, op. 78 no. 3 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- The dance, op. 27 no. 1 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- The dawn, op. 78 no. 11 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- The Death of Olaf, op. 30 no. 16 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
- The fountain, op. 71 no. 2 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
- The Fourth of August (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- The Heart of Canada (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
- The herald (Text: Alexander Smith)
- The Immortal Legions (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
- The King's Way (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- The language of flowers (Text: James Gates Percival)
- The laugher, op. 78 no. 4 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- The Lowestoft Boat (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- The marksmen, op. 27 no. 6 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
- The merry-go-round (Text: Florence C. Fox) [x]
- The music makers, op. 69 (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy) GER
- The Pipes of Pan (Text: Adrian Ross)
- The Poet's Life (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
- The prince of sleep (Text: Walter De la Mare) DUT GER
- The rapid stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
- There are seven that pull the thread, op. 42 no. 3 (in Grania and Diarmid) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
- There is sweet music, op. 53 no. 1 (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
- The reveille, op. 54 (Text: Bret Harte)
- The River, op. 60 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])
- The self banished (Text: Edmund Waller)
- The shepherd's song, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 1 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER SPA
- The shower, op. 71 no. 1 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
- The snow, op. 26 no. 1 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
- The sweepers (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- The swimmer, op. 37 no. 5 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) CAT GER ITA
- The torch, op. 60 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])
- The wanderer
- The wave (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- The wind at dawn (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
- The woodland stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
- The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad), op. 30 no. 9 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- They are at rest (Text: John Henry Newman)
- Through the Long Days, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 2 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
- Thyri (Chorus: Ballad), op. 30 no. 13 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- To the children, op. 78 no. 1 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
- To women (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
- Twilight, op. 59 no. 6 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- Une voix dans le désert, op. 77 (Text: Émile Cammaerts) ENG
- Was it some Golden Star?, op. 59 no. 5 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
- Weary wind of the west (Text: T. E. Brown)
- When swallows fly (Text: Charles Mackay)
- Where corals lie, op. 37 no. 4 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA
- Whether I find thee bright with fair, op. 45 no. 2 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- Windlass song (Text: William Allingham)
- Winter (in The Mill Wheel) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
- XTC (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)
- Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean, op. 45 no. 1 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
- Zut! Zut! Zut! (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)
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